BREAKING NEWS
UMUC Inn and Conference Center Expansion Will Make It Area’s 12th Largest
Three UMUC Employees Receive Presidential Award
By Andrea Martino
The University’s plan to expand its Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, Maryland, by some 100,000 square feet will make the UMUC complex the 12th largest meeting facility in the national capital area and more competitive for larger conferences. The UMUC Inn and Conference Center, 12 miles from the nation’s capital, is practically equidistant from Dulles, BaltimoreWashington, and Reagan National airports. The addition will more than double the number of guestrooms available. With construction already under way, the expanded area will include 127 guestrooms, 15 suites, and seven conference rooms. Planners expect the addition to be complete by December 2003. Construction for the site was approved by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents in July 2002 and is funded by auxiliary revenue bonds through the System Funded Construction Program. The architect for the project is Oldham and Partners, a Washington, D.C., firm that recently designed the renovation of the Inn and Conference Center’s existing hotel, ballroom, upstairs lounge and art gallery, and the Garden Restaurant. The construction manager for the expansion is Bovis Lend Lease of Bethesda, Maryland. Oldham and Partners has registered the addition with the U.S. Green Building Council for certification in the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) program that requires the utilization of recycled materials and energy efficiency. The UMUC addition is one of only two hospitality projects worldwide registered with the U.S. Green Building Council. For more information on the UMUC Inn and Conference Center, operated for the university by Marriott, visit the Web site at www.umuc.edu/icc.
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(Left to right) Pershail Young, Gerald Heeger, Tobe Levin, and Enid Bank.
Three UMUC employees received Presidential Awards at the annual Service Awards ceremony on September 12, 2002. Each recipient—Enid Bank, director of Instructional Technology; Tobe Levin, faculty member, UMUC–Europe; and Pershail Young, director of Administrative Processes and Student Support—received a plaque and monetary award of $5,000. “The Presidential Award is designed to recognize extraordinary accomplishment and performance by a member of the university’s staff or full-time faculty,” said Erytheia Lambert Jones, vice president for Human Resources. “Nominations are solicited in the late spring of each year and reviewed by a committee made up of a cross section of UMUC employees, including representatives from the staff and faculty governance groups. The committee’s recommendations are then presented to UMUC President Gerald Heeger for his approval.” The Presidential Award—first granted in 2001—is part of the university’s employee award and recognition program and is typically granted to an employee who demonstrates commitment to UMUC as a whole and who has a record of extraordinary achievement on a project that directly impacts the university’s operation or mission and yields positive, tangible, institutionwide results.
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