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Proposals for Achieving Significant Integration of Minority Groups at UMBC
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…
Letter from Norman V.A. Reeves and Howard Rawlings to Albin Kuhn
Norman V.A. Reeves, Counselor, and Howard Rawlings, Instructor of Mathematics, co-chairs of the UMBC Caucus of Black Faculty and Staff, were in contact with Dr. Kuhn about ways to further diversify UMBC. The goal of the Caucus was the creation of a…
Letter from Albin Kuhn to Norman V.A. Reeves and Howard Rawlings
Dr. Kuhn wrote a ten-page response to the February 10, 1970 letter from the UMBC Caucus of Black Faculty and Staff, setting out his views and offering advice for pursuing solutions to the problems outlined by Reeves and Rawlings. Your discussions…
State of Maryland Commission on Human Relations, Public Information Document No. 7, Discrimination at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Members of the Black Caucus of Faculty and Staff pursued their concerns to the State of Maryland Commission on Human Relations, which issued a report that stated: The statistical data presented to the Commission at the time this investigation was…
Faculty Diversity at UMBC
Although UMBC never had a segregated student body, whether by race or gender, our campus has struggled in many ways to increase its diversity of the student body. UMBC is now promoted as a diverse institution and this is part of the defining…
First Annual Lavender Celebration
Although UMBC never had a segregated student body, whether by race or gender, our campus has struggled in many ways to increase its diversity of the student body. UMBC is now promoted as a diverse institution and this is part of the defining…
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…
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 in…
Distribution of Full-time Faculty in Fall 1986 by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Rank, Tenure Status, Chart from A Promise Unfulfilled: A Report on the Implementation of UMBC's Affirmative Action Program 1979-1986
The Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, comprised of faculty, associate and classified staff, and student volunteers was formed in order to advise Chancellor Hooker and the Director Human Relations on matters and issues related to implementation…
Distribution of Full-time Faculty in Fall 1986 by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Rank, Tenure Status, Chart from A Promise Unfulfilled: A Report on the Implementation of UMBC's Affirmative Action Program 1979-1986, Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, November 1987, 60, pages, 8.5 x 11, President's office records, University Archives, Collection 50, Box 56, Folder 26
The Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, comprised of faculty, associate and classified staff, and student volunteers was formed in order to advise Chancellor Hooker and the Director Human Relations on matters and issues related to implementation…