UMBC Inventory of Baltimore City Activities

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3	Workforce Development (WD)
4	Economic Development (ED)
5	Education & Mentoring (EM)
6	Health Services (HS)
7	Arts & Culture (AC)
8	Policy & Evaluation (PE)
9	Engaged Research and Scholarship (ERS)
10	Other
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12	UMBC Dept,Program or Center	Lead UMBC Person	Baltimore City Partners	Brief Description	Focus	Impact	Funding Sources	Photos
13	Choice Program--Intensive Advocacy, MD Dept of Juvenile Services Shriver Center	LaMar Davis, executive director		Uses 24 AmeriCorps members to provide community-based alternative to institutionalization/incarceration of youth aged 8-18 on probation or in need of supported supervision in four jurisdictions, including Baltimore City. Employs daily monitoring, positive experiences, and family-focused strategies.	EM	Over 20,000 youth and families have been served by the Choice Program in the last 25 years. 350 Baltimore metro area youth served annually with 92% not acquiring new charges and 80% remaining in the community over the past 5 years.	MD Department of Juvenile Services
14	Choice Program--Intensive Advocacy Foster Care Diversion Program Shriver Center	LaMar Davis, executive director	Baltimore City Department of Social Services	Uses 6 Americorps members to provide case management services to 60 Baltimore City youth aged 13-17 at risk of being placed out of their home into foster care. Employs daily monitoring, mediation and informal counseling, referral.Employs daily monitoring, positive experiences, and family-focused strategies.	EM	Over 20,000 youth and families have been served by the Choice Program in the last 25 years. 350 Baltimore metro area youth served annually with 92% not acquiring new charges and 80% remaining in the community over the past 5 years.	Baltimore City Dept. of Social Services
15	Choice Jobs Program Shriver Center	LaMar Davis, executive director	Baltimore City Department of Juvenile Services, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development	Uses 7 AmeriCorps members and 6 Opportunity Youth AmeriCorps members to prepare youth for the work world using a supported employment model, including a job-readiness curriculum and on-the-job training at three smoothie/coffee franchises in Baltimore City: Camden Yards, Inner Harbor and University of Baltimore School of Law	EM	Trains 200 youth annually, placing 80 youth in subsidized and unsubsidized jobs.	Open Society Institute, Marguerite Casey Foundation, revenue- generating social enterprise
16	Choice Education Program Shriver Center	LaMar Davis, executive director	Baltimore City Public Schools, Lakeland Elementary/Middle School	Serves a caseload of up to 40 youth identified by Lakeland as “most challenging students”, addressing issues as they arise and providing home visits, coaching, tutoring, referral and positive activities.	EM			https://umbc.box.com/s/u7waxgi011680li5ekfici8zklgie71s
17	Modern Languages, Literature and Linguistics	Sara Poggio	Baltimore City Public Schools, Lakeland Elementary/Middle School		EM
18	Education	Chris Rakes	Baltimore City Public Schools, Lakeland Elementary/Middle School	Math professional development for teachers.	EM
19	Economics	David Mitch		Mitch is the chairman of the Board of Directors of Hope Forward (formerly Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center). Organization provides a variety of services to transitional foster youth (ages 18-25) who mainly reside in Baltimore City. These services include mentoring and advocacy, workforce education and development, and emergency and transitional housing.
20	bwtech@UMBC, Office of Institutional Advancement	Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of bwtech		Promotes tech- and research-oriented business and economic development by supporting companies at all stages ranging from incubation to maturity. 525,000 square feet of office and lab space. Houses about 120 firms. The first university research park in Maryland, in operation 25 years.	ED, WD	10 - 20% of jobs, income and business sales generated are estimated to accrue to individuals and companies in Baltimore City--as many as 700 jobs, $46M in income and $94M in business sales.	Baltimore County, State of Maryland, corporate partners
21	bwtech@UMBC (incubation activities), Office of Institutional Advancement	Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of bwtech	Greater Baltimore Committee, IMET, UMB schools	Encourages the formation and growth of tech- and research-oriented businesses and entrepreneurial activity, especially among underrepresented groups, such as minorities and women. In operation 25 years, with cybersecurity incubation in the past 5.	EM, WD	At least three companies that have graduated from the incubator have relocated or will soon relocate to Baltimore City. Incubation expertise shared with Institute for Marine and Environmental Technology and UMB.
22	Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program, Shriver Center	Joby Taylor, executive director of Peaceworker Program	Multiple, incl. Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services, Friends of Patterson Park, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Commodore John Rogers School, Beth Am synagogue	Places returned Peace Corps volunteers studying for advanced degrees in 20hr/wk service-leadership jobs in scores of community organizations and public agencies, often for two years. Achievements include building a sustainable interfaith hospitality network to address homelessness, establishing a college-readiness program at Commodore John Rogers School. Develops a pipeline of skilled and experienced leaders for Baltimore as a core part of mission. Many fellows have lived in Baltimore and stay in Baltimore after graduation. In operation for 20 yrs.	WD, EM, PE	Has significantly advanced the mission of diverse community organizations and some public agencies by providing skilled, consistent workers.	Community organization partners, Macht Foundation, Federal Work Study
23	Americorps VISTA, Shriver Center	Michele Wolff, Shriver Center executive director	Refugee Youth Project	College readiness and mentoring program for refugee high school students with UMBC students as mentors. Launching fall 2015.	EM
24	Geography and Environmental Systems	Matthew Baker	Baltimore Green Space, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability, Parks & People Foundation	Urban forest map: developed map of urban forest patches characterizing types with similar size, shape, ownership, surrounding land use, etc. to help guide conservation activities.	ERS, PE
25	Geography and Environmental Systems	Matthew Baker	Baltimore Green Space, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability, Parks and People Foundation, Baltimore Zoo	Annual forest survey and analysis of data: uses students for annual survey and data analysis related to urban forest patches.	ERS, PE
26	Survey of Effects of Passive Vegetation Management, Geography and Environmental Systems	Matthew Baker	Baltimore City Office of Sustainability, Park and People Foundation, Baltimore Greenspace	Survey of this type of vegetation management in city forests under conservation easements, incl. sampling protocol and training of permanent and seasonal personnel.	ERS, WD
27	Geography and Environmental Systems	Matthew Baker	Baltimore Greenspace, Office of Sustainability	Exotic plant invasions in Baltimore woodlands surveys: conducted low-altitude surveys and structural modeling of exotic plant invasions in Baltimore woodlands.	ERS
28	Geography and Environmental Systems	Matthew Baker	Baltimore Greenspace, Office of Sustainability, Audubon Society	Migratory bird survey: will conduct survey of migratory birds in urban woodland patches.	ERS
29	Mosquito Traps Program, Geography and Environmental Systems	Dawn Biehler		Program wherein incarcerated people have developed mosquito trap prototype, are testing trap while learning techniques for monitoring mosquito ecology.	WD, EM, ERS
30	Geography and Environmental Systems	Dena Aufseeser		Archival research on youth curfew laws: student’s examination of history of youth curfew laws in Baltimore to see the ways in which particular groups of young people regulated in and through space.	ERS
31	Geography and Environmental Systems	Sari Bennett	Baltimore City Public Schools	Geography teacher professional development for elementary teachers to strengthen geography instruction. Demonstration of classroom activities aligned with state standards.	EM
32	Geography and Environmental Systems	Maggie Holland	Several incl. the Farm Alliance, JHU Center for a Livable Future	Mapping foodsheds of Baltimore City: MSc research into foodsheds and ways in which these systems contribute to mitigating neighborhood food insecurity.	ERS
33	Geography and Environmental Systems	Maggie Holland	Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services, Baltimore City Depts of Planning and Housing and Community Development	MSc research into development and use of the Housing Market Typology as well as other Baltimore City datasets for planning and development for other neighborhood organizations.	ERS
34	Imaging Research Center	Lee Boot	Office of Promotion and the Arts, Culture Works and others	Baltimore stories website: developing online film series to capture stories of Baltimore residents working to build the culture of their communities.	ERS, AC
35	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Imaging Research Center; Language, Literacy & Culture; Student Affairs	Scott Casper, Kathy Odell, Lee Boot, Bev Bickel, David Hoffman, Romy Hubler, and others	MICA, Morgan State University, Towson University and arts and culture organizations and leaders from Baltimore	UMBC is hosting 2015 Imagining America national conference .IA is a national consortium of arts, designers, scholars and community activists strengthening democracy and civic life. Location: UMBC, Mt. Vernon neighborhood cultural institutions, MICA and Morgan. Planning has involved unprecedented engagement of diverse cultural and civic organizations to build toward sustained collaboration following the October conference.	AC
36	Imaging Research Center, Education	Lee Boot, Mavis Sanders	Dew More Baltimore	Arts in education pilot program in a Baltimore public school: testing hypothesis that arts done democratically can put the climate and culture of a school on solid ground; project will be documented on film and evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively.	ERS, AC, EM
37	Language, Literacy and Culture	Bev Bickel (PI), Helen Atkinson (Director)	BCPSS teachers and community members	The grant funded Teachers' Democracy Project supports teachers from Baltimore City Public Schools to develop student-centered, culturally responsive pedagogical skills; build shared critical knowledge about the local and national contexts of schooling; and connect meaningfully to efforts focused on strengthening public education and democratically controlled communities	EM, ERS
38	Geography and Environmental Systems	Maggie Holland	Wolfe Street Academy, Baltimore City Public Schools	MSc research into Southeast Baltimore Latino and immigrant population experience in Southeast Baltimore foodscape; student provided after school program for immigrant students.	ERS, HS
39	Imaging Research Center	Dan Bailey	MD Historical Society	Early Baltimore Project: developed large, interactive exhibit on display at the MD Historical Society of Baltimore in the landmark year of 1814 ; exhibit based on extensive, pioneering research and uses technically sophisticated means of visualization ; also online as free, public resource.	EM, AC
40	English for Speakers of Other Languages Program	John Nelson	Esperanza Center	M.A. students volunteer and teach at the center	EM
41	Education	Pam Morgan	Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore City College High School, Digital Harbor High School, Violetville Elem/Middle School, Baltimore City Public Schools	Professional Development Schools: places at least 5 teachers-in-training in schools with support provided by UMBC with aim of not only training but strengthening school.	EM
42	Education	Jon Singer	Baltimore City Public Schools, Violetville Elementary/Middle School	After-school science programs for elementary students and middle school students.	EM
43	Education	Gene Schaffer and Mavis Sanders, Education	Consortium for Urban Education	Participation in Consortium for Urban Education, which coordinates and facilitates partnerships between university entities and public schools; teacher excellence agenda, with immediate focus on hiring process, induction and support for first-year teachers and work groups for college access, civic engagement, family engagement, STEM and teacher excellence.	EM
44	Education	Susan Blunck	MD Science Center	Maryland Science Center uses elementary science methods students to teach science with the staff of MSC; ongoing 15 years.	EM
45	Education	Barbara Bourne and Chris Rakes	Baltimore City Public Schools	Support for students from UMBC professional development schools at summer learning camps at UMBC--7 this year, including 4 at innovative math camp.	EM
46	Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program	Art Johnson and Jessica Cook	CollegeBound Foundation	A minimum of one place provided to Baltimore City public high school students in Sondheim Scholars program for undergraduates; program communicated through recruitment visits and contact with CB counselors	EM
47	Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars and Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars programs	Jessica Cook	Commodore Rogers School, Baltimore City Public Schools	Environmental science mentoring for Commodore John Rogers School: provides monthly participation in environmental projects with UMBC Sondheim and Sherman scholars and visits to UMBC for 15-25 students.	EM
48	Shriver Center and Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program	Jessica Cook	Multiple, including the Esperanza Center, Baltimore CASH Campaign, St. Agnes Hospital, Creative Alliance, Health Department	Sondheim Scholars provide weekly service for a year or more in nonprofits or educational institutions; serve in (mandatory) internships	WD, EM, HS, AC
49	Political Science	Felipe Filomeno	Multiple informal, including National Aquarium, Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School	Research into globalization experiences of several Baltimore-based organizations conducted by Program in Global Studies students, resulting in forthcoming publication of case studies.	ERS
50	Political Science	Felipe Filomeno		Immigration policy research: developed new theoretical approach to Baltimore City immigration policy, resulting in research paper under peer review for publication.	ERS, PE
51	Global Studies Program	Rhyner Washburn	International Rescue Committee	Community garden: Global Studies students work on national/local community garden program with focus on nutrition education, community gardening and small business farming training.	EM, WD
52	Visual Arts	Symmes Gardner	MD Art Place, Current Space, Jordan Faye Contemporary Gallery	Intermedia and Digital Arts Program MFA thesis exhibition, spring 1015, in Baltimore.	AC
53	Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture	Sandra Abbott	Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City College High School	Education outreach to City College High School students through Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture contemporary art exhibitions in fall 2014, spring and fall 2015, spring 2016 .	AC
54	MDQuit Resource Center	Carlo DiClemente Psychology	Baltimore City Health Department Tobacco Control	Serves 24 jurisdictions including Baltimore City, under MOU with MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, by providing training and technical assistance to providers and professionals who deliver tobacco cessation and prevention to clients; also provides consultation to Preventing Substance-Exposed Pregnancies Coalition and its parent, B’more for Healthy Babies, to help reduce maternal exposure to substances at preconception, during pregnancy and postpartum.	HS		Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control, Prevention and Health Promotion Admin. DHMH
55	CVS Tobacco Cessation Program	Carlo DiClemente Psychology	Baltimore City Health Department	As a part of work with MDQuit, have (pending) MOU with Baltimore City Health Department to develop training materials for 15 CVS pharmacies located throughout Baltimore City. As a result of training, pharmacy staff will be equipped to deliver tobacco cessation information to patients.	HS
56	Sexual Health Integration Initiative	Carlo DiClemente Psychology	Family Health Centers of Baltimore, Institutes for Behavioral Research REACH Program	Providing capacity building and training for mental health, substance abuse and HIV primary-care providers under an MOU with MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene targeting jurisdictions that have the highest HIV prevalence.	HS		Infectious Disease Bureau, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, MD DHMH
57	No Wrong Door Project	Carlo DiClemente Psychology	Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore, Inc., other substance abuse and mental health agencies	Provides capacity building and training for mental health, substance abuse and HIV primary-care providers in Baltimore Metro Statistical Area.	HS		Infectious Disease Bureau, Prevention and Health Promotion Admin, DHMH
58	Home Visiting Training Certificate Development	Carlo DiClemente Psychology	Baltimore City Health Department Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Visiting Program	Developing training certificate program for home visitors and supervisors across MD to empower home visitors with current knowledge and empirically supported practices.	HS, WD, ERS		Training grant awarded by DHMH
59	Psychology	Carlo DiClemente	UMB School of Medicine	Evaluation activities for MD Doctors Making a Difference (MD3) Program: providing evaluation activities for a UB Medical School project under a SAMHSA grant to train medical students to conduct screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment for substance abuse with their patients; trained residents staff hospitals and clinics in Baltimore	HS, EM		UMB School of Medicine
60	Psychology	Carlo DiClemente	UMB School of Social Work	Evaluation activities for Broadening SBIRT’s Reach Program: providing evaluation activities for a UMB School of Social Work project under a SAMHSA grant to train social work students to conduct screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment for substance abuse with their clients.	HS, EM		UMB School of Social Work
61	Theatre	Eve Muson and Susan McCully	Interrobang Theatre Company, Strand Theatre Company	McCully writing and Muson directing new play, Kermoor, a production of two Baltimore theater companies, to run Oct. 29-Nov. 15, 2015.	AC
62	Visual Arts	Tim Nohe	Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts	Nohe serving on Artscape 2016 Space Advisory Committee.
63	Visual Arts	Tim Nohe	Baltimore Green Space and Friends School of Baltimore	Nohe documents and shares information about an urban forest patch as part of Springfield Woods Stewardship Project.	AC
64	Visual Arts	Preminda Jacob	Living Classrooms, Friends of Patterson Park, Force, Open Society Institute-Baltimore, Paul’s Place	Art in public spaces: used students in the course Space and Place in Public Art and Urbanism to bring art where it might not be, specifically, murals, enhanced park pedestals, posters and patchwork for memorial quilt; work with children from Paul’s Place homeless shelter to design and paint mural.	AC
65	Visual Arts	Kelley Bell	Transmodern Performance Festival	Graphic design for 11th Annual Transmodern Performance Festival, Baltimore: designed branding, signage and promotional materials.	AC
66	Visual Arts	Steve Bradley	WEAA-FM (Marc Steiner Show)	5-part radio series, “Stories of Deindustrialized Baltimore”: students in 4 courses produced series broadcast in spring 2014.	AC
67	Visual Arts	Steve Bradley	Brooklyn Branch Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library	Students together with Benjamin Franklin High School students and community members created a mural at the Brooklyn branch library.	AC, EM
68	Visual Arts	Lyn Cazabon		Female inmates created garden portraits displayed in Baltimore light rail trains.	AC
69	Gender and Women’s Studies	Kate Drabinski	Baltimore Heritage	Drabinski helped organize LGBT walking tours of Baltimore.	EM
70	Gender and Women’s Studies, History, American Studies	Kate Drabinski, Denise Meringolo, Nicole King	Maryland Historical Society, Wide Angle Youth Media, Reginald Lewis Museum, more	Collecting and preserving grassroots digital materials related to Baltimore Uprising. Established a website to display the photos and recordings: baltimoreuprising2015.org. Working with partners to publicize and further develop the project.	AC
71	Gender and Women’s Studies	Kate Drabinski	City Paper	Drabinski producing pieces about Baltimore politics, urban development and culture as columnist and feature writer.	AC
72	Gender and Women’s Studies	Kate Drabinski	Queerstories	With two artists from MICA Drabinski researching Baltimore queer history and presenting at LGBT events around the city.	AC, EM
73	Gender and Women’s Studies	Kate Drabinski	Baltimore Urban Debate League	Drabinski volunteering as debate judge at elementary, middle and high school levels.	EM
74	Gender and Women’s Studies	Kate Drabinski	Asylee Women Enterprises	Planning to place students as mentors for migrant women in Baltimore area who are seeking or were granted asylum.	EM
75	Judaic Studies	Michele Osherow	Jewish Museum of MD Baltimore, Jewish Council/Jewish Volunteer Connection, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore	Hoping to place students as interns or for service learning in several nonprofit organizations.	AC, EM
76	Urban Resources Initiative Internship Program	Ed Orser	Baltimore City Department of Rec and Parks, Parks & People Foundation	Places students, 3 from UMBC this spring, in rec/greenspace organizations; Orser is coordinator.	Other
77	Mapping Dialogues: Deindustrialization in Baltimore Project	Nicole King American Studies	Concerned Citizens for a Better Brooklyn, Curtis Bay Improvement Association, Filbert St. Community Garden, Chesapeake Center for the Development of Youth	Provides public humanities programming: http://mappingbaybrook.org	ERS		MD Humanities Council
78	Baltimore Traces Project	Nicole King American Studies and Bill Shrewbridge, director, New Media Studio	WEAA-FM (Marc Steiner Show, Center for Emerging Media), Station North Arts and Entertainment District, Bromo Seltzer Arts District	Students build multimedia mapping projects and oral histories on changing neighborhoods: http://baltimoretraces.umbc.edu	ERS		Hrabowski Innovation Grant
79	American Studies	Nicole King	Baltimore Arts + Justice, MICA	King serves on advisory committee and assessment team (for the NEH-funded Our Town grant) through 2015 with this MICA-based project working at intersection of art and social justice.	Other
80	Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture	Nicole King, American Studies		King serves as director (since founding in 2010) fostering innovative collaborations between scholars, students, and Baltimore area community organizations for creative responses to issues identified by communities; sponsors Bmore Historic Unconference at MD Historical Society; this year introducing first Orser Center Fellow Award: http://amstcommunitystudies.org	EM
81	History	Denise Meringolo	Baltimore Heritage	Students provide crucial support to the two-person staff, conducting research and developing content for a smart phone application that connects visitors to historic places in and around the city; relationship since 2012.	EM		Hrabowski Innovation Grant to expand the existing partnership.
82	History	Denise Meringolo	Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Archaeological Preservation, other local preservation organization	Meringolo is identifying and developing walking tours for March 2015 annual meeting of the National Council on Public History.	AC
83	History	Meredith Oyen	Baltimore City Public Schools,Thomas Johnson Middle School	Oyen plans to have students in Introduction to the Study of History course pair with Johnson students to do parallel research and reports in time for National History Day. Possibility that UMBC undergraduates will help more broadly with getting City students’ History Day projects ready.	EM
84	American Studies	Kimberly Moffitt	Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys charter school	Moffitt is a founder: http://www.baltimorecollegiate.org	EM
85	Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication	Sara Poggio	House of Ruth, Education-Based Latino Outreach, St. Stephen Lutheran Church Refugee Youth Project, Esperanza Ctr	Students provide service, including primarily one-on-one tutoring to immigrant children and adults.	EM
86	Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication	Steven Young	Baltimore Green Space	Young manages a former City pocket park now owned by Baltimore Green Space, local nonprofit land trust.	Other
87	Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication	Ana Maria Schwartz Caballero	Baltimore City Hispanic Commission	Schwartz Caballero chairs the commission, which identifies and defines issues concerning needs and rights of Hispanic community and advises City government.	PE
88	Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication	Susanne Sutton	Zion Lutheran Church	Using student interns, helping to digitize the church’s library holdings.	AC
89	Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication	Susanne Sutton	MD Historical Society	Sutton helps translate German newspaper articles for exhibits and archives.	AC
90	English	Elaine McDougall	Friendship Academy, Baltimore City Public Schools	Students tutor elementary school students in reading and work with parents to bring greater literacy into homes in Reading Partners Program.	EM
91	English	Elaine McDougall	Manna House	Students from Technical Communications course designed flyer and created GoFundMe site to help Manna House’s Breakfast Club.	Other
92	English	Deborah Rudacille	CityLight Society, UB, Sowebo neighborhood	Rudacille co-curates “The New Mercury Nonfiction Reading Series,” which had readings at the Baltimore Book and CityLit festivals (2016 work will focus on poverty, education, crime & punishment in Baltimore); after contributing to special issue of American Short Fiction, “Things American” on Gray’s death and Baltimore Uprising, sat on associated panel at UB townhall mtg; collaborated with photographer Martha Cooper on book documenting daily life in Southwest Baltimore.	CA
93	English	Deborah Rudacille	St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church LEAD group	Rudacille helps with outreach and support for LGBT Catholics.	CE
94	English	Deborah Rudacille	PEN Writers in Schools program, Baltimore City Public Schools	Rudacille visits schools.	CA
95	Health Administration and Policy Program	Andrea Kalfoglou	Port Discovery Children’s Museum	Healthy First Saturday Program: students in Social Bases of Public and Community Health course hold 4 health fairs yearly for children 2-10.	EM, HS
96	Health Administration and Policy Program	Andrea Kalfoglou	Safe House of Hope	Kalfoglou and students conduct food drives, provide supplies, rally in Annapolis in support of antisex- trafficking legislation.	CE
97	Sociology and Anthropology	Jana Rehak	MD Traditions Festival in E. Baltimore, CASA de Maryland	Students provide help for the festival, have internships at CASA.	EM
98	Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program	Rehana Shafi, director	KIPP Harmony and KIPP Ujima Village academies, Green Street Academy, Cristo Rey School	Students spend 8-10 hours/week for a semester in their placement school working with a classroom teacher and participating in day-to-day aspects of teaching.	EM
99	Learning Resources Center	Cassie Bichy, director	Center for Academic Achievement at Baltimore City Community College	Bichy consulted with coordinators for science and math tutoring/assistance, showing them the UMBC equivalents; in discussion about tutor training collaborations	EM
100	Honors College	Jodi Kelber-Kaye,assistant director	Baltimore City Public Schools	Plan for recruiting and retaining Baltimore City Public School graduates to UMBC, including an MOU soon to be finalized, merit scholarships for qualifying City schools graduates and strategies for recruiting and retaining such students. Recruiting recently begun.	EM