Andrea V. Spratt
Assistant Director, Learning Resources Center
Board of Regents Staff Award for Excellence

As assistant director of UMBC’s Learning Resources Center, Andrea Spratt has played an important role in the academic success of countless students. Spratt’s many contributions to improving the services of the LRC reflect her commitment to helping all students learn.

Spratt handles the administrative duties associated with the center’s daily operations, but still finds time for instruction and special projects. As a career mathematics educator, she takes special interest in helping students improve their math skills. The students who she instructs become not only proficient, but also confident in their newly discovered abilities. Spratt also proposed and implemented the ALEKS program to the math department. ALEKS is a self-paced, web-based arithmetic and algebra review course that is offered to new freshmen who wish to work towards a higher math placement during the summer before their first semester. Of the students who complete ALEKS and retest, ninety percent place into a college-level math course, significantly easing the enrollment crunch in Math 106.

Students, their parents, and her faculty colleagues alike have noted Andrea Spratt’s exceptional work. Theresa Davis, director of the Learning Resources Center, says, “Andrea’s exceptional educational leadership and expert teaching skill have impacted thousands of students through direct instruction, program development, and organizational and community activity. Andrea is a consummate professional and an educator’s educator.”

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