Aug 16, 2025
“Rooted in Grit, Reaching for Greatness: The Retriever Graduate Experience”
Welcome to the PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) 2025 website! This conference, hosted by PROMISE program volunteers from across the University System of Maryland, will be held in person on August 16, 2025.
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
| Time | The conference runs from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM |
| Location | The Summer Success Institute (SSI) conference will be hosted at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Campus, address: 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building (PAHB). |
| Parking | Free parking will be provided in Lot 8 for the conference. To find it, follow the campus signage with the conference logo. |
| Dress code | The dress code is business casual; please plan accordingly. |
What is SSI (Summer Success Institute)?
The PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) is a signature one-day professional development conference designed to support graduate students and postdocs and prepare them to thrive in the upcoming academic year. Whether you’re preparing to begin your graduate journey, navigating your current program, or planning your next career move, SSI has something to offer you!
Register for SSI (Summer Success Institute) 2025
Expect powerful keynotes, interactive workshops, and meaningful conversations focused on thriving in your academic work, developing your career trajectory, and building a lasting support community to sustain you during challenge and change. This event was intentionally designed to center the experiences and needs of scholars from historically underrepresented backgrounds, while remaining open, welcoming, and beneficial to all members of our academic community, including graduate students, postdocs, undergraduates considering advanced study, and new faculty. We hope you can join us for this dynamic kick-off to the fall semester.
As with all PROMISE activities, we welcome you to invite and include your family and friends in our program. We call this practice “the Jessica Effect,” after the late Jessica Soto-Perez. In opening our program, we honor your community’s cultural and familial influence and simultaneously promote understanding of your academic experience to those in your lives.
COMING UP SOON Detailed Agenda
SSI is funded by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Graduate School Department.