Human Intelligence in an AI World: UMGC History Students Lead the Way

With more than 500 members, UMGC's vibrant History Student Society encourages students to explore their interest in history while providing networking and other community-building opportunities for history majors and other interested students and alumni, who attend virtual meetings from around the world.

The UMGC History Student Society has won the university's top Student Organization of the Year award for the past four years, expanding beyond U.S. borders to include participants in Europe and Asia.

Society gatherings have featured presentations by history majors discussing their senior theses, professional historians, and alumni who share how their studies in history-and the way historians think-has helped them succeed, often in fields unrelated to history.

The Society "seemed like a great way to get to know the other people in your classes, because it's all virtual," said Emilie Osterfeld, who helped launch the program as a student and now, after graduating, continues to volunteer. "It's a great way to build community."