Photograph of Students Protesting School Closing
One thousand students packed into the quad Monday, chanting slogans, waving placards, and cheering speakers in the largest mass meeting in UMBC's recent history. The rally followed reports in the Sunpapers, News American, and the Washington Star of a State Board of Higher Education proposal to close down UMBC and turn the campus into an industrial park." – Retriever, March 4, 1981
As reported in the Retriever, students rallied on the Quad against reports that UMBC could be shut down by SBHE. Timed to coincide with a visit by University President John Toll to address a faculty gathering, the rally featured SGA president Scott Rifkin and State Senator Tim Hickman, a UMBC alumnus. When the rally ended, the crowd squeezed into Dining Hall I to hear remarks by Chancellor Dorsey and President Toll. Dorsey stated: If the threat is real, we are prepared to fight it." Toll deplored the report as maximally damaging to UMBC coming as it did in the middle of the recruitment season for faculty and students, and on the morning of our defense of the university budget in the state legislature."
Baltimore sun
Baltimore Sun Photographs
3/3/1981
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 8.125 x 10 in.
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Students walking by the University Center
The University Center opened to praises at the start of the 1982 fall semester with couches for quiet study, dining options, and offices for the SGA and the Retriever. In 1981, SGA president Terry Nolan proposed that the old Student Union building could then be repurposed into a daycare center, student organization offices, meeting spaces, and a car co-op space (an area equipped with tools for car repair). His rationale was that the Regents approved increases in student fees to help pay for the construction of the Student Union in 1968 and that entitled students to maintain use of the building thereafter. The ownership of the old building was resolved by the campus Facilities Planning Committee which split the 12,500 square foot space among the SGA, a proposed daycare center, and the Department of Theatre.
University Photographs
ca. 1982
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 5 x 7 in.
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UMBC Graduate Catalog, 1984-85
Created in 1985 by the Board of Regents, the UMGSB represents the administrative arm of the combined graduate and research programs at UMBC and UMAB – the University System's doctoral research campuses in the Baltimore area... It was the Regents' intention that the combined graduate and research programs at UMBC and UMAB serve as one of the University of Maryland System's two principal centers, with UMCP's graduate and research programs operating as the University's other principal center. The concept of the two principal centers for graduate education and research was expressed initially in the University of Maryland's 1981 long-range planning study, The Post-Land Grant University, and was endorsed by the Board of Regents in March, 1984.-- The University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore (UMGSB), January, 1991. University Senates records, Collection 52, Box 14, Folder 36.
Still an on-going partnership, the University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore (UMGSB) offers several joint graduate programs between UMBC and UMB.
University Publications
1984-85
catalogs; booklets; 10 x 7 in.
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UMBC Review, Vol. 5, no. 1 (Winter 1986)
During Dorsey's nine years of leadership, he focused on restructuring administration and academics while enhancing the university's profile. SAT scores of incoming freshmen increased by nearly 100 points, and the student body increased from 5,200 to more than 8,150. The annual budget also expanded to $46.2 million from just $18.6 million. In 1986, Dorsey stepped down as UMBC's chancellor and took a position as special assistant to University of Maryland President John S. Toll. He later returned to teaching economics and retired in 2001. John Dorsey passed on July 24, 2014 at his home in Laurel, MD.
University Publications
Winter 1986
newsletters; 11 x 17 in.
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UMBC Review, Vol. 5, no. 1 (Winter 1986), Newsletter, 1 page, 1986, 11 x 17. University Publications, UPUB I1-005
During Dorsey's nine years of leadership, he focused on restructuring administration and academics while enhancing the university's profile. SAT scores of incoming freshmen increased by nearly 100 points, and the student body increased from 5,200 to more than 8,150. The annual budget also expanded to $46.2 million from just $18.6 million. In 1986, Dorsey stepped down as UMBC's chancellor and took a position as special assistant to University of Maryland President John S. Toll. He later returned to teaching economics and retired in 2001. John Dorsey passed on July 24, 2014 at his home in Laurel, MD.
University Publications
Winter 1986
newsletters; 11 x 17 in.
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Chancellor Michael Hooker at his installation ceremony by Irving H. Phillips, Jr.
All institutions of higher education seek to preserve the past. We are citadels of learning, guardians of culture. We recognize that the past is prologue, and know that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. But progressive institutions seek also to read the future, to analyze trends, and to develop alternative scenarios in response. The best institutions do this in order to ensure that the liberal, scholarly traditions influences the shape of the society to come." -Michael Hooker from his installation speech as chancellor October 29, 1986
Phillips, Irving H., Jr.
Baltimore Sun photographs
10/29/1986
color photographs; chromogenic color prints; 8 x 10 in.
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Lance Hidy 20th Anniversary commemorative poster
Nationally-known illustrator Lance Hidy designed the poster commemorating the 20th anniversary of the university. His work is known for its minimal detail and flat, solid colors. The university also commissioned artist and alumna Paulette Raye to create the bronze-cast statue of True Grit for the anniversary, although it wasn't installed until the following year.
Hidy, Lance
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
October :1986
posters; 19 x 34.25 in.
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Dr. Koh with First Graduating Class of Engineers by Patrick Sander
The Maryland State Board of Higher Education approved engineering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs at UMBC in 1984, though not without heated competition from Morgan State University. Previously, pre-engineering classes were offered at UMBC, but students had to transfer to University of Maryland, College Park to complete their degrees. Both Morgan and UMBC desired an engineering program, but ultimately, the decision was made that each school would receive half of a full engineering program; electrical, civil, and industrial engineering were given to Morgan and chemical, biological, and mechanical engineering programs were given to UMBC. The first UMBC class of engineers in 1986 were awarded eight bachelor's degrees and one master's degree. Engineering student organizations ASME, AIChE and the Council of Majors were also established that in 1986. Dr. Severino Koh was a founder of the program and served as associate dean of the College of Engineering until 1991, and he taught as a mechanical engineering professor until he retired in 2002.
Sander, Patrick
Baltimore Sun Photographs
6/6/1986
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 8 x 10 in.
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Graduates from the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority
Students celebrate graduation in 1986. The Gamma Pi chapter of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority was established at UMBC in 1979.
University Photographs
ca. 1986
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 5 x 7 in.
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Sculptor Paulette Raye, '87, with the True Grit statue
Alumna and artist Paulette Raye, ‘87, sculpted a wax casting of her Retriever model Nitty Gritty before casting the statue in bronze.
University Photographs
12/1987
color slides; color photographs
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