Information on Veteran Status

University of Maryland, Baltimore is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended by the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, 38 U.S.C. 4212 (VEVRAA), which requires Government contractors to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment: (1) Active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans; (2) Armed Forces service medal veterans; (3) disabled veterans; and (4) recently separated veterans. These classifications are defined as follows:

An “Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran” is a veteran who served on active duty in the U. S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An “Armed Forces Service Medal Veteran” is a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

A Disabled Veteran is one of the following:

• A veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-related disability.

A “Recently Separated Veteran” is any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

Protected veterans may have additional rights under USERRA - the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. For more information, call the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS), toll-free, at 1-866-4-USA-DOL.

As a Government contractor subject to VEVRAA, we are required to submit a report to the United States Department of Labor each year identifying the number of our employees belonging to each specified “protected veteran” category.

Information on Disability Status

Because we do business with the government, we must reach out to, hire, and provide equal opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. To help us measure how well we are doing, we are asking you to tell us if you have a disability or if you ever had a disability. Because a person may become disabled any time, we are required to ask all of our employees to update their information every five years. You may voluntarily self-identify as having a disability without fear of any punishment because you did not identify as having a disability earlier. Your answers are kept confidential.

You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition. Disabilities included, but are not limited to:     

• Blindness                                                                                     
• Deafness                                                                        
• Cancer                                                                                                  
• Diabetes                                                                                        
• Epilepsy
• Autism
• Cerebral palsy
• HIV/AIDS
• Schizophrenia
• Muscular dystrophy 
• Bipolar disorder
• Major depression
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Impairments requiring the use of a wheelchair
• Intellectual disability ( previously called mental retardation)