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Project 2000: Toward Higher Learning for the 21st Century
In the several addresses delivered on April 26, 1972, Calvin B.T. Lee, Morton Baratz, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Sanford Greenberg, Political Science Research Professor and Consultant on Project 2000, used contemporary data to provide…
Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Report for 1976, 1986, 1996, 2001. Reports, multiple years. UPUB P12-007
Accreditation of colleges and universities in Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware is the jurisdiction of the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The conclusion of the 1976…
tnt Festival! [The New Theatre Festival]
The New Theater Festival, which came to UMBC in 1976, had its origins in alternative theatre such as Herbert Blau’s and Jules Irving’s San Francisco Workshop and Philip Arnoult’s Baltimore based Theatre Project. In 1974, Blau became the Dean of…
1978-1979 Men’s Basketball Team Media Guide
The 1978-79 UMBC men’s basketball team won the NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regionals Championship on March 3, 1979. The Baltimore Sun reported: John Goedeke’s 2 free throws with 7 seconds remaining enabled the University of Maryland-Baltimore…
Option II At UMBC, a self-designed, interdisciplinary major
Initially UMBC was a branch campus of College Park, and the curriculum mimicked what was available at the flagship campus. By fall 1967 UMBC’s own academic identity had begun to emerge. A divisional structure was established instead of colleges,…
General Honors Course Guide
The predecessor of the Honors College was established in 1980, with options for both a general Honors Program and individual departmental honors programs. Students enrolled in the Honors Program were able to select from courses that boasted smaller…
Report to Undergraduate Council on Honors Report
The predecessor of the Honors College was established in 1980, with options for both a general Honors Program and individual departmental honors programs. Students enrolled in the Honors Program were able to select from courses that boasted smaller…
Quadmania, Page 6 of the Retriever, Volume 16, Number 4, Newspaper, September 21, 1981
UMBC celebrated the first Quadmania on Saturday September 19, 1981, and it has since become a treasured campus tradition. Part concert, part carnival, Quadmania has been UMBC’s main social event ever since for students, alumni, and the surrounding…
Invitation to the Dedication of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery , Invitation, 1982, 5 x 7 . University Publications, UPUB L1-013
The library went unnamed, aside from Library or University Library, until the official dedication ceremony on December 13, 1982 when it was named for UMBC’s founding chancellor, Albin O. Kuhn. The occasion was hosted by Chancellor Dorsey and took…
Naming University Buildings
Conflicting opinions about the naming scheme of UMBC’s buildings, and Academic IV in particular, motivated the formation of a committee to propose a formal process by which names could be approved. The report of the committee was sent to the UMBC…