Annual Report 1971-72 to the President if the University of Maryland from UMBC by Calvin B.T. Lee
In his first report to Dr. Elkins, the head of the university system administration, Dr. Lee presented a vision for UMBC that was characterized by rapid growth. Already he could say that the number of full time students had risen substantially in just one academic year. Moreover, the diversity of the student body as well as the ranks of faculty and administration were also expanding. He touted the interdisciplinary curriculum that was being developed and singled out the Afro-American Studies program for special attention. Unlike…other programs, UMBC combines African Studies and the African Diaspora, i.e., the Black Experience in the Americas and African Heritage,” he said. In summary, he was: Appreciative of the past six years, optimistic in the present, and carefully planning for the future…” He was looking thirty years into the future toward the year 2000.
Lee, Calvin B.T.
University Publications
1972
annual reports; 11 x 8.5 in.
UPUB C18-005
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 a vision of education in the future. The project served as a UMBC vision statement, and Lee took a fundamentally optimistic view of the future,” in which there would be control of the human condition and the University can and must play a role in the development of this ability.” The report reflects on a future overloaded by technology.
Lee, Calvin B.T.; Baratz, Morton S.; Greenberg, Sanford D., 1940-
University Publications
4/26/1972
reports; 11 x 8.5 in.
UPUB C18-009
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 Middle States report was: In the ten years since it opened for its first freshman and a small group of graduate students, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has made impressive progress.”
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Commission on Higher Education
University Publications
1976
reports; 11 x 8.5 in.
UPUB P12-007
Faculty Senate minutes, April 12, 1988. Minutes, 4 pages, April 12, 1988
In 1988, Governor William Donald Schaefer signed a bill that would completely change the way Maryland divided the state’s academic budget and programs. The newly created University System of Maryland (USM) would bring together the five University of Maryland campuses and six other public colleges. The bill also created a Cabinet-level Secretary of Education and a USM chancellor, responsible for 95% of USM’s state funding and overseen by a Board of Regents. The first chancellor was University of Maryland President John S. Toll. At this time the title of the administrative leader of the individual campuses changed from chancellor to president.
University Senates records, Collection 52
4/12/1988
minutes (administrative records); 8.5 x 11 in.
50UMBC-022
Out With The Old... …In With The New, The Retriever, Vol. 28, no. 1
During the summer of 1992, President Michael Hooker left UMBC to take the helm of the five-school University of Massachusetts System. Freeman Hrabowski, who had first served as Vice Provost and then as Vice President, was selected as the interim president. A search for a new president would not begin until a final decision had been made about the possible unification of UMBC and UMAB, as only one president would be needed if the two schools merged.
Drenning, Jim; Hawley, Pam
University Publications
9/9/1992
newspapers; articles; 14.75 x 23.75 in.
UPUB R4-001_19920909
Signed program for the Installation ceremony of Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Inscription reads: What a wonderful day in the life of this university and in my life. We at UMBC are very fortunate.” --9/24/93 Freeman Hrabowski
Hrabowski, Freeman A.
University Publications
9/24/1993
programs (documents); 8.5 x 5.5 in.
UPUB P7-013
Excerpts from the Installation Address by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III. (for entire 10/06/2012 publication which includes this excerpt, see UARC 2013-005)
Since arriving at UMBC . . . I have come to appreciate the unusual combination of factors at work here: the enormous talents of the people, who care about our students; our focused academic programs, interdisciplinary strengths, and commitment to linking research and teaching; our youth and evolving status; and our medium size, ensuring us a critical mass of people and programs and a campus community where people know each other by name, and can feel special. . . . These same factors also allow us to have a distinctive vision for UMBC’s future. We will continue to strengthen and emphasize our arts and sciences programs, for the benefit of all our students. We will be a national leader in educating students in science and engineering, including minorities and women. And we will continue to focus on issues of diversity.”
-Freeman Hrabowski from his installation speech as president September 24, 1993
Hrabowski, Freeman A.
President's office records, Collection 50
excerpts from 9/24/1993, printed in 10/6/2012 publication
programs (documents); 11 x 8.5 in.
UARC 2013-005
Bigger Purposes by Childs Walker
When UMBC opened, just a handful of buildings on an old farm, 30 miles from College Park and 8 miles from the downtown professional schools, the new faculty and first classes of students reported a sense of excitement at the possibility of the new school. Many in the community were not so sure, and as the direction of the university has evolved this support has evolved, too. In the past decade there has been a new sense of excitement not just on campus but nationwide, spurred on by higher honors in university rankings, national news profiles, and a growing network of accomplished alumni touting the success of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. This example, a front page story in the Baltimore Sun, trumpets UMBC’s profile and future.
Walker, Childs; Baltimore sun
9/2/2012
newspapers; articles
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Albin O. Kuhn by Fabian Bachrach
Albin Owings Kuhn (1916-2010) was UMBC's first president (then called chancellor). He began his career in higher education at the University of Maryland, College Park; after completing his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees there, he served as a professor of agronomy and chair of the Agronomy Department. In 1965 when Kuhn was serving as executive vice president of the University of Maryland, Dr. Elkins asked him to be the head of the University of Maryland Baltimore campus. Kuhn agreed on condition that he would also oversee the creation of the new campus in Baltimore County – what would be become UMBC. The initial planning, development and construction of the campus was led by Kuhn who remained the campus leader until 1971; he retired from the University of Maryland System in 1982.
Dr. Kuhn's official portrait was made by Fabian Bachrach (1917-2010), a scion of the legendary family of photographers that stretched back four generations--more than 140 years. The first Bachrach studio was founded in Baltimore, and, at one time, there were studios in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Washington, D.C.
Bachrach, Fabian, 1917-2010
ca. 1970
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 20 x 16 in.
50UMBC-056
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 became an administrator at Boston University. He rapidly moved up to dean, then vice president, and finally acting president at BU. His career as UMBC's second chancellor began during the 1971-72 academic year.
University Photographs
ca. 1974
gelatin silver prints; black-and-white photographs; 16 x 20 in.
UARC 1989-02-002