Not all of the land on which the new campus was going to be built was already owned by the state. One parcel was owned by the Stabler Family, 13 acres along Walker Avenue approximately where the Library & Gallery is now situated. The State acquired…
After a long process, with many different opinions expressed, the Board of Regents finally approved plans to build a University of Maryland branch on a 425 acre tract of mostly State-owned land near Catonsville in Baltimore County. An article in The…
National concern for student demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s prompted Congress to pass laws that would penalize students who accepted federal scholarship or loan money and got arrested for civil disobedience. Selected sections of Public Law…
In response to a 1969 University of Maryland report on integration, Dr. Kuhn appointed a committee chaired by English professor Philip J. Klukoff to draft a report making specific recommendations for UMBC to attract more minority students. The report…
While flying home from New Orleans, Dr. Kuhn noted more classrooms” and Block programs to keep st[udents] in certain areas of campus.” Further down the page, he wrote: move prof[essors] to students,” and Place classrooms on lower floors.” He was…
Making the new campus one devoted to research was on Kuhn’s mind as he began thinking about a campus Master Plan.” Extensiveness of Research—Kinds of research…and Balance of Govt. sup[port] vs commercial [support]” and Short term vs long term…
The first decade of UMBC’s operation saw periodic campus discomforts caused by controversial subjects, and nude photographs published in the fall 1968 issue of Dialogue, the UMBC literary magazine, was one such occasion. Ten photographs of nude…
Once the Catonsville site was selected for the expansion of the University of Maryland, Dr. Kuhn quickly began working on specifications for the new campus. He visited universities across the country to get ideas for the construction of both…
Published on the opening day of UMBC, September 19, 1966, was the first issue of UMBC News which carried the bold headline DR. KUHN GREETS STUDENTS.” Dr. Kuhn was very student oriented, and declared in the front page article: We welcome the new…
The first Spring Week (an early version of Quadmania) took place April 22- 29, 1967, and began with a rousing Saturday evening performance by the King of Soul," Otis Redding (1941-1967). The performance was for a semi-formal dance in Gym 1 and was…