Leadership, Engagement, Advocacy, & Diversity (LEAD) The LEAD area provides diverse programming and leadership opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, both across the general student body and focused on specific populations. These units worked towards developing a shared purpose, creatively marketed their programs to reach students virtually, and used data to inform their practice. As an area, they committed to deepening their own personal learning as well as shared collective responsibility to address systemic oppression and its impact on students’ sense of community and
members from Governor Hogan’s Initiative for
Undergraduate and Graduate Legal Aid Of-
Indian Affairs. The Land Acknowledgment is
fices support students who may need assistance
now being developed in consultation with local
with immigration law. A partnership between
tribe elders to show respect, raise awareness,
the Carey Law School and the University of
and serve as a first step towards more fully
Maryland offering services to students and
realizing and honoring Indigenous histories on
families of students was established this spring.
this land.
A program focusing on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals and a general immi-
ACTIVITIES
gration law workshop was offered through a
STAMP Activities initiated many efforts this
partnership with the legal aid offices, the law
past year to focus and improve in areas around
school, and STAMP’s Immigrant and Undoc-
inclusion, equity, and representation. For ex-
umented Student Life Program.
ample, through an ongoing collaboration, the
belonging through policy and program review, program and curriculum design, and centering marginalized voices in their work. MULTICULTURAL INVOLVEMENT & COMMUNITY ADVOCACY (MICA) With the multitude of traumatic and racially charged events this year, the Multicultural
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Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA) unit in STAMP was busy working to expand their reach, provide much needed support to students, continue cultural heritage celebrations, and raise awareness about critical, timely issues, such as the rise of anti-Asian violence over the past year. To accomplish all of these things, MICA leveraged the power of collaboration and partnerships: one Big 10 collaboration led to a shared evening event with Cornel West and community activists and another partnership led to the forming of the Big 10 Native Alliance. Many other collaborations were deepened this year providing students with creative outlets for wellbeing such as art therapy, opportunities to advocate for change on campus, and developing a better understanding of their peers’ experiences. MICA worked with the Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Patty Perillo, to reinstate the Land Acknowledgment Committee for UMD, with stakeholders, including staff, faculty,
In collaboration with the Counseling Center, MICA offered a community processing
students, local Native American tribe elders,
space and provided support for student organizers of the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Vigil
recent Native/Indigenous UMD Alum, and
in response to the killing of six Asian American women in Atlanta.
STAMP Annual Report • 2020-2021
stamp.umd.edu/annualreport
