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Improbable excellence : the saga of UMBC

Title
Improbable excellence : the saga of UMBC / George R. La Noue.
Author
LaNoue, George R.
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

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Description
xv, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
Opened for enrollment in 1966, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) was created to serve the overflow of students from the Baltimore area seeking admission to UM College Park. From its beginning the new commuter campus faced a surfeit of problems. Sited on free land taken from a suburban state hospital for insane criminals, the campus was not sponsored or protected by any political constituency. There were already nine other campuses in the metropolitan area, which often opposed funding and the creation of new programs at UMBC. Located a few miles from the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus, there was no chance UMBC could develop the array of professional schools common to research universities. Its County name, an afterthought, was more consistent with two-year schools than a Ph.D.-granting institution. Yet as UMBC approaches its 50th anniversary, it has become a national role model for new American universities. Improbable Excellence describes how this remarkable development took place.
Subject
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County > History
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-403) and index.
Contents
1. The founding -- 2. Forever politics -- 3. Developing a campus -- 4. Administration -- 5. Budgets and benefactors -- 6. Faculty -- 7. Academic programs and research "UMBC Produces" -- 8. UMBC students -- 9. The arts -- 10. UMBC athletics -- 11. UMBC service -- 12. UMBC 2011-2012: living in interesting times -- 13. Comclusions: "Success is never final" -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9781611639384
  • 1611639387
  • 9781531002770
  • 1531002773
OCLC
  • ocn964659145
  • 964659145
  • SCSB-8790825
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library