The University System of Maryland (USM), the state’s public higher education system, includes 12 universities, three regional higher education centers, and more than 200,000 people—students, faculty, and staff—dedicated to pursuing knowledge, advancing discovery, improving lives, and strengthening communities across the state and around the world. Our System includes research institutions; comprehensive universities; historically Black universities; medical, law, and other professional schools; and one of the world’s leading online universities. Our regional higher education centers provide adults with family, work, and other responsibilities with convenient access to our universities’ most in-demand programs. USM Social Media Comment Policy
The USM values and respects diverse viewpoints and welcomes dialogue regarding our university system. However, comments created on this platform by other users do not reflect the USM’s opinions or views. Furthermore, the USM retains the discretion to remove comments for any lawful reason, including but not limited to comments that:
• Contain discriminatory, obscene, threatening, violent, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful language, images, video or content;
• Share disinformation with intent to harm;
• Violate intellectual property rights;
• Contain commercial endorsements or advertisements or are considered "spam" —repeated posting of identical or very similar content; or
• Disclose confidential information or personally identifiable information, such as an email address, home address or phone number for yourself or others
