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Memorandum from Homer Schamp, Jr. to All Faculty
Memo from Homer Schamp, Jr., Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, to All Faculty assuring faculty members that their right to conduct classes would be protected and warning that students who attempt disruption of classes or examinations should be…
Two Pages from the Skipjack Showing Scenes from Campus Demonstrations
On Thursday, May 7, 1970, students and faculty came together and took part in picket lines and teach-ins, and made speeches expressing their concerns. They called for a campuswide strike on May 8, counter to Kuhn's announced resumption of classes.…
Earth Day Demonstration
The New Democratic Coalition, a regional political group, sponsored environmental awareness activities during April and May 1970. Speakers included Biological Sciences Department professors Robert Burchard and Bob Platt. On Earth Day, Students…
Winter Session Class Discussion of Malcolm X by William Morgenstern
A UMBC Senate passed resolution during the 1970-1971 academic year stated: That the discipline of Afro-American Studies be establish[ed] by September 1971." Mazi Dr. E.N. Njaka was hired as coordinator of the program, with the same status as a…
S.G.A. Meeting, Fall 1971 by William Morganstern
The first SGA meeting of the 1971-72 academic year occurred during the first week of classes, and was covered by the Retriever Weekly with photography by William Morganstern. Pictured left to right are David Rowe, newly elected People's Party…
Pioneering Africana Studies Faculty Members by William Boyd
The African-American Studies Department planning committee meeting in 1973 included Dr. Daphne Harrison (second from left). After Dr. Njaka stepped down, Dr. Harrison served as Acting Director of the department; a search was instituted that resulted…
Dance and Decorating for the Dance
Students decorating Gym I for a dance.
Calvin B.T. Lee
UMBC's second president was Calvin B.T. Lee. Son of a Chinese-American family, he was a graduate of New York University Law School (Doctor of the Science of Law). He practiced law for several years, worked for the U. S. Department of Education, and…