UMBC
Honors and ACHIEVEMENTS
OUTREACH
UMBC is a leader in outreach and
advocacy at the local, state and national levels.
The Shriver Center’s Choice Program has become a national model for effectively serving youth and families in at-risk environments. A community-based intervention program administered by UMBC’s Shriver Center, Choice has provided intensive supervision and family support to almost 20,000 children throughout Maryland since 1989. The program has been replicated in Hartford, Connecticut and Providence Rhode Island (1997), San Diego, California (1998) and Syracuse, New York (2003). Choice youth have an impressive 84% success rate while being served by the program.
UMBC was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction in 2008, recognizing innovative and effective community service and service-learning programs. UMBC was also named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in 2009.
UMBC’s Golden Key chapter achieved a Gold chapter standing, the highest reporting standard in the Golden Key International Honour Society.
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
UMBC's Center for History Education has received seven $1 million
grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History
Grant Program to invigorate the teaching of history in elementary, middle
and high schools. The Center will work with elementary, middle
and high school teachers in Anne Arundel County Public Schools to improve
the teaching and learning by students of American history. The Center
is a resource for educators throughout Maryland and beyond - an online
library of lesson plans, created by program participants, can be accessed
by teachers across the country.
A
leadership gift of $5 million from George and Betsy Sherman
funds UMBC’s Sherman STEM Teacher Training Program,
designed to dramatically increase the number of UMBC graduates
who move immediately into science, technology, engineering
and math teaching careers in at-risk and challenged schools
in Baltimore City and throughout Maryland. UMBC seeks
to become one of the nation’s leading institutions for
training STEM teachers to work in at-risk schools.
The Sondheim
Public Affairs Scholars Program supports
a diverse pool of talented undergraduates seeking to become
effective leaders in government, non-profits, corporations
and the community. Scholars understand and address
the urgent social problems of cities and communities through
service learning, internships, research opportunities and mentoring.
Student service placements include Baltimore City elementary
and middle schools, the Learning Bank Adult Literacy Center
and the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents, and
internships include the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center,
Maryland Department of Budget and Management and the U.S. Congress.
The Parks and People Foundation awarded a Neighborhood Greening Grant to Associate Professor of Visual Arts Tim Nohe and Alex Geiger ‘12, visual arts. The grant supported “Gourd Season” at the Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School (BMPCS) and allowed Nohe and Geiger to further enhance the green infrastructure at the school by adding capacity for rain harvesting and composting.
Since 1995 the Department of Dance has operated Project
REACH, an outreach program that has benefited thousands of
public school children and their teachers in Baltimore
County and Baltimore City elementary, middle and high schools.
Sponsored by the Morton and Sophia Macht Foundation, this program
offers modern dance and movement workshops and performances.
The university’s two art galleries, the Center
for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) and the Albin O.
Kuhn Library Gallery, open their doors to hundreds of area
school children each year for guided tours and discussions.
Additionally, the CADVC and the Imaging Research Center operate
outreach programs to disadvantaged communities in Baltimore
City.
UMBC’s arts faculty and staff are leaders in
arts education advocacy and policy-making at the local, state
and national levels. They sit on the higher education
in the arts task forces, the fine arts education advisory panel
of the Maryland State Department of Education and the Arts
Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS). President Freeman
Hrabowski is the chair of the AEMS Presidents’ Council.
UMBC’s Emergency Health Services (EHS) department provides
crucial training for paramedics, firefighters, emergency medical
technicians and other first responders across Maryland. While
UMBC’s
EHS students and graduates serve their communities at hospitals,
police stations and fire houses across the state, perhaps the biggest
impact of their education is felt in small towns. The department is
one of the few of its kind in the U.S. to be affiliated with a local
Shock Trauma Center.
Sari Bennett, clinical associate professor of geography and environmental
systems, is coordinator for the Maryland Geographic Alliance which has worked
with over 12,000 K-12 teachers since 1989. Jointly funded by the
State of Maryland and the National Geographic Society, the Maryland Geographic
Alliance develops lesson plans and other materials for teachers to use in
their classrooms, and presents workshops and summer institutes.
College of Engineering and Information
Technology
The Maryland State Department of Education asked UMBC to
be the university affiliate for Project
Lead the Way (PLTW), a four-year high school
engineering program. UMBC provides teacher and counselor
training, high school accreditation, AP-like course credit and
community college articulation. Twenty-five schools in Maryland
have begun teaching the courses. PLTW is led by Anne Spence, assistant
professor of mechanical engineering.
Athletics
The UMBC Athletics Community Outreach Program promotes
a positive relationship between our student-athletes and communities
surrounding the university. In recent academic years, UMBC athletes
performed more than 5,000 hours of community service.
*Last updated 6/15/2010
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