While undergoing the Civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, UMBC would prove to be a new and different atmosphere with open and peaceful minds during campus protests. As university enrollment increased drastically over the coming years, the university would also coincide with the turbulent changes in society in the 1960s. The first classes began on Septemwith 750 students, 3 buildings, and the older wing of the Biological Sciences building, 45 faculty members, 35 support staff, and 500 parking spaces. Homer Schamp of the College Park as the first Dean of Faculty, David Lewis as the first full-time faculty member and head of Social Sciences, and John Haskell, Jr. In 1965, Albin Owings Kuhn, an accomplished administrator and professor at College Park was named Vice President of Baltimore Campuses, including both UMBC and the founding campus, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Architectural design and planning of the new campus was completed at the University of Maryland, College Park. The new campus would be efficiently located in Southwestern Baltimore, and would be able to be accessed from Wilkens Avenue, the Baltimore Beltway and Interstate 95. By the end of that year, 435 acres were purchased from Spring Grove State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Catonsville, Maryland. In 1963, the Maryland Legislature approved the development of several new universities throughout Maryland. In 1960, the Warfield Commission, appointed by Governor Tawes, issued, "A Plan for Expanding the University of Maryland," which propelled the idea of creating three additional university centers throughout Maryland. Three years later, the "Advisory Committee on Higher Education in the State of Maryland" report proposed that the Baltimore branch of the University of Maryland be established as a two-year program, subordinate to the College Park campus. In 1955, Governor Theodore McKeldin issued "The Needs of Higher Education in Maryland," which recommended the need for university expansion. At this time, the University of Maryland, College Park was the main higher education source in the region, so talks began of adding a branch campus in the Baltimore area. The planning of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County was first discussed in the 1950s due to the post- World War II baby boom, the expansion of higher education under the GI Bill, and the large amount of growth both in population and industry in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The north end of Academic Row in the center of campus. 10.2.8 Women Involved in Learning and Leadership.10.2.1 The Center for Women in Technology.Athletically, the UMBC Retrievers have 17 NCAA Division I teams that participate in the America East Conference. UMBC has the fourth highest enrollment of the University System of Maryland, specializing in natural sciences and engineering, as well as programs in the liberal arts and social sciences. Įstablished as a part of the University System of Maryland in 1966, the university became the first public college or university in Maryland to be inclusive of all races. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".
It has a fall 2020 enrollment of 13,497 students, 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, and 29 graduate certificate programs) and the first university research park in Maryland. Originally from Detroit, he has been a resident of Baltimore for 15 years, and is glad to be part of the USMAI community.The University of Maryland, Baltimore County ( UMBC) is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland. John Breitmeyer is the Discovery Services Librarian at UMBC, which is part of the IT Services division of AOK Library. John Breitmeyer – Discovery Services Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County He has worked at the UMBC Library since 1996, and has also served as the president of the Maryland Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. Stephen Jones is Manager of Library Technology Operations at UMBC. Stephen Jones – Library Information Technology Services Manager, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This session was presented live and recorded at TCAL 2020 on August 12, 2020.Ĭlick here to access the recorded session. We then hope you’ll share your library’s experience in this regard in the hope that we can all be better prepared for the future. Join members of UMBC’s library IT dept in a live webinar about what has gone well and not so well in our dealing with the IT needs that have been generated since then. UMBC’s library IT department was less than fully prepared for the sudden closure of the UMBC campus in March.
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