Extended Studies Quarterly Newsletter
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Volume 2, Issue 4 | May 2024
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 Summer Session 2024
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This year’s Summer Session starts on May 28. Each year, Summer Session courses allow thousands of University of Maryland students to make progress towards their degree or to lighten their fall semester course load by fulfilling General Education or major requirements over the summer.
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Big Question
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In recognition of the adoption of the Big Question General Education category, Extended Studies has a big question for you.
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How could more students be encouraged to enroll in your college’s/school’s Summer Session courses?
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Summer Session in Comparison
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Summer Session Trends
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In 2019 only 50% of seats were offered online. Covid caused a nearly complete shift to online course delivery. While more in-person courses have returned, the trend is still in favor of online instruction.
On average, 97% of students who register for Summer Session are current University of Maryland students. As of May 10, 2024, 8% of all students who have registered for Summer Session 2024 are freshmen, 21% are sophomores, 33.92% are juniors and 25.05% are seniors.
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To date, the top 5 courses with the highest registrations are:
- ENGL393: Technical Writing (General Education) - 276 seats, 21 sections
- ENGL394: Business Writing (General Education) - 148 seats, 9 sections
- STAT400/DATA400: Applied Probability and Statistics I - 135 seats, 7 sections
- COMM107: Oral Communication: Principles and Practices (General Education) - 132 seats, 7 sections
- BGMT380: Business Law I - 127 seats, 3 sections
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Summer Session 2024 offers 915 courses with 4,196 sections in Session I and 716 courses with 4,057 sections in Session II. Approximately the same number of courses were offered in 2023, although some additional sections are available this year.
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Meet with Extended Studies
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Let us know if you would like to discuss Summer Session or other opportunities for self-support programs with us. We are currently scheduling meetings for the fall. Complete our Google Form to set up a meeting.
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Team Member Spotlight
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Manager,
Summer and Winter Programs
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Genna Godley (she/her) joined Extended Studies in 2021, initially as a Program Assistant for Terp Young Scholars, then supporting Freshmen Connection as a Program Coordinator. She is a lifelong learner and is excited to bring educational opportunities to students through her current role as the Manager for Summer and Winter Programs. Her professional background includes experience as a program manager, an academic advisor, a research and teaching fellow, and a librarian focusing on information literacy instruction. She is passionate about supporting students as they transition to college, and strives to integrate principles of equity and accessibility in her work.
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What's New?
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We recently added a compilation of Practical Skills resources to the Extended Studies website. Navigating different aspects of life can be challenging. Practical skills such as communication, financial literacy, time management, leadership, and stress management can help overcome those challenges. University of Maryland offers a wide variety of free and low-cost practical skills courses and resources that are available to the university community and the general public.
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Support: Marketing and Communication Resources
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A Summer Session 2024 toolkit is available on the Extended Studies administrative website. It includes social graphics, widgets, a television and website slide, and sample copy for promoting courses offered this summer by your college or school.
For those offering graduate programs that are administered by Extended Studies, a Professional Graduate Programs toolkit for marketing your program is available. If you are offering an undergraduate program at Shady Grove, the Shady Grove toolkit provides social graphics and sample copy to promote your program.
Feel free to reach out to exstcomm@umd.edu if you have any questions.
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Program Updates
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Winter Session enrollment opens in mid-October. This three-week session typically sees over 5,000 enrollments, most of which are current University of Maryland students. In 2023, Winter Session returned $6.6 million in tuition revenue to campus units. Academic units can begin scheduling sections of popular major and General Education courses for Winter 2025 in early July through the start of August. Over 90% of courses offered during Winter Session are online. Please contact winter-sched@umd.edu if you need assistance.
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Professional Continuing Education
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UMD’s largest global outreach program, Massive Open Online Courses, reaches over 1,000 new learners from nearly 200 countries daily , offering a total of 102 UMD MOOCs. Cybersecurity for Everyone welcomed over 600 new enrollees daily during the first quarter of this year. The course boasts 280,000 enrollees in total and is growing. It is the second-highest ranked cybersecurity offering on Coursera among 476 similar courses, the top university-offered course in cybersecurity, and the top non-technical cybersecurity offering globally.
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Executive Education continues its service to many external enterprises. With the Smith School of Business, Engineering, and Public Policy leading the way, we are seeing continuous growth in Executive Education activity.
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Alongside stakeholders and internal consultants, Open Learning is in the planning process for the transfer of its applications to the TerpEngage environment. We anticipate completing the transfer in December, with a rollout shortly thereafter.
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Student and Program Services Updates
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Finance Updates
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Extended Studies Finance is in the process of submitting budget projections to the Provost's Office for all departments and colleges for Summer Session, Winter Session, and Freshmen Connection. These will then be inserted into the Budget Preparation and Maintenance (BPM) system.
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The Finance Team is also preparing to attend in-person Human Capital Management (HCM) and finance workshops as part of Workday Training.
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Budgeting and Reporting Updates
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Finance Team is analyzing Summer Session 2024 enrollments to determine individual course breakeven enrollment projections. Enrollment status reports will be sent for Extended Studies administered Summer Session I courses in mid-May and Summer Session II courses in mid-June.
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Additionally, Finance is preparing for the Fall 2024 budgeting period, which opens May 16. Budgets must be submitted to Extended Studies Finance by June 14.
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University of Maryland Extended Studies | exst.umd.edu
0600 Service Building, 7757 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD 20742-5035
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