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UMUC Inn and Conference Center Expansion
Will Make It Area’s 12 th Largest
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 12 th 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, Baltimore-
Washington, 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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Three UMUC Employees Receive
Presidential Award
(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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