Portrait of a Leader

UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE Annual Report 2011 1 UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND BACHELOR OF ARTS BACHELOR OF GENERAL STUDIES Art Education EASTERN SHORE African American Studies General Studies Elementary – Special Education Table of MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING Academic Programs English 2 History Secondary Teacher Initial Certification 2010-11 Music Education Contents Portrait of Leader … MASTER OF EDUCATION Sociology Thompson years retrospective Career and Technology Education 5 Welcoming back a former leader BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Counselor Education Dr. Mortimer Neufville Special Education UMES is accredited by: Accounting Agribusiness 6 Pharmacy School launches MASTER OF SCIENCE • The Middle States Commission on Higher Agriculture (general) 9 Education (MSCHE) Applied Design Applied Computer Science 7 Somerset (Over) Hall Criminology and Criminal Justice Oval landmark earns “Green” designation IBM + UMES = JOBS • The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools Aviation Science Biology (general) Food and Agricultural Sciences Unique collaboration helps of Business (AACSB) 8 Joining Elite Company Business Administration Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences grads compete for top IT jobs • American Review Commission on Education Business Education Quantitative Fisheries and Resource Economics 10 Going Solar BIG time for Physician Assistant (ARC- PA) Chemistry Toxicology • American Physical Therapy Association Computer Science DOCTOR OF EDUCATION 11 Jennifer Hearne, course redesign leader Artist Patrick Henry of Berlin, a 1975 Construction Management/Technology (APTA), Commission on Accreditation University of Maryland Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Educational Leadership • American Dietetic Association Commission on 12 Rural Development soars to new heights graduate, was commissioned by the UMES Engineering 18 Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) DOCTOR OF PHARMACY Board of Visitors to paint a portrait of Engineering Technology 14 Extending UMES’ reach Hollywood on the Shore President Thelma B. Thompson. The • National Council for the Accreditation of Environmental Science DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2011 Gala in pictures painting, which is displayed in the Teacher Education (NCATE) Exercise Science 16 Campaign for Excellence Frederick Douglass Library, was unveiled as Human Ecology Food Science and Technology • Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) Opportunity. Distinction. Investment. Success! a surprise during a tribute dinner held in Hotel and Restaurant Management Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences Organizational Leadership Thompson’s honor prior to her retirement. • American Chemical Society (ACS) Mathematics 21 2012 Bernstein winner Physical Education Toxicology • American Council for Construction Education UMES is a member of the University System of Maryland, a network of 11 Physician Assistant 22 News & Notes about UMES (ACCE) DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY 20 universities, two research institutions, two regional higher education centers Professional Golf Management and a system office that enrolls nearly 150,000 students worldwide in 600 degree programs delivered in classroom, laboratories, education centers and online. • Professional Golfers’ Association of America Rehabilitation Psychology 24 Financials Rolling a Rare Double (PGA) Rehabilitation Services PHOTO CREDITS: Jim Glovier, Joey Gardner, Patty Hancock, Megan Raymond, UMES bowlers win two Cheryl Nemazie, Tim Fuller, Bill Robinson, UMES Agriculture Research. • Accreditation Commission for Programs in Technology Education INSIDE BACK Campus Leadership national titles in one year - DESIGN: Debi Rus, Rus Design, Inc. PRINTING: Economy Printing Hospitality Administration (ACPHA) Urban Forestry something no other college BACK Mission Statement team has done UMES is an EEO/AA employer.

UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 1 THOMPSON SUPERLATIVES

n Fifth-longest serving in that role behind Portrait Thomas Kiah (26 years), J.T. Williams (23 years), William P. Hytche Sr. (22 years) and of a the institution’s first leader, Benjamin O. Bird Leader (11 years) n Honored in the fall of 2011 by the Thurgood Thompson years retrospective Marshall College Fund as the recipient of its 2011 Education Leadership Award, the When she arrived in Princess Anne, she talked of “making Archbishop Desmond highest individual award presented to a Tutu was the 2005 The late Richard Hazel of Salisbury established a $3 million president or educational leader of a public good better.” By every benchmark, she made “better … best.” commencement speaker. endowment to benefit teacher education at UMES. HBCU “We are entrusted with the minds of young students, university accreditation process preceded her, and she made international linkages prior to 2002; since then it signed 14 community outreach ventures she brought to fruition: the n Named to the 2011 list of Maryland’s Top 100 and to me that makes education much more than a pursuit of those important academic program credentials more, fulfilling Thompson’s vision of expanding the landmark agreement with U.S. Orchid Laboratory & Women compiled annually by The Daily business. It dictates the future of our nation and our one of her priorities. From four accredited programs in 2002, campus’ global reach. Nursery; the creation of the Maryland Hawk Corp.; the Record in Baltimore – the second time she graduates tell us who we by 2011 there were 26 — UMES launched an ambitious seven-year $14-million launch of the HawkSat 1 satellite; the revolutionary Poultry received this recognition are as a society,” she said. including the “Campaign for Academic Excellence” in 2004. By the House of the Future research; and a 17-acre, privately built “As president of UMES, Dr. Thompson focused n When Thompson took Department of Business, campaign’s end in July 2011, the university had amassed solar farm activated in March 2011. Former chair of the University System of relentlessly on excellence,” USM Chancellor William over as president after four Management and nearly $15 million in Four major Maryland presidents’ council E. Kirwan said. “Under her guidance, the university years as vice president for Accounting in the spring charitable donations plus Clifford M. Kendall, chair of USM’s Board of Regents, buildings opened during n Elected chief of MEAC Council of Chief academic affairs at Norfolk introduced new and unique programs that have both 2011. The surge an additional $2 million in said the state and UMES have benefitted from Dr. Thompson’s nine years Executive Officers (Va.) State University, widened opportunities for students and enhanced the demonstrated matching funds from the Thompson’s leadership. as president: the Center n Howard University – distinguished alumni UMES enrolled 3,644 region’s and the state’s growth and economic measureable qualitative federal Title III program. “On behalf of the University System of Maryland for Food Science and Technology, a physical award students. By the end of her development. UMES has earned and maintained growth. Multi-million dollar gifts Board of Regents, I thank President Thompson for her nine-year tenure, critical academic program accreditations and has New academic from the late Richard F. plant headquarters, a n One of the Women Who is Shaping the World enrollment was a record programs also were Hazel and the Richard outstanding service to UMES, USM and the state of coastal research center consistently earned U.S. News & World Report’s – Essence Magazine honoree 4,540, with historic highs added, among them a Henson Foundation are Maryland.” near Assateague Island for undergraduates and ranking as one of the country’s best historically black four-year engineering among the largest ever to “Without a doubt, UMES has thrived under her nine (named for Paul S. n All-American Football Foundation’s institutions. degree, the only PGA- a Maryland HBCU. Sarbanes, the longest- Thelma Barnaby Thompson became UMES’ 13th chief graduate students. years of leadership, earning national recognition for its Outstanding College President This continuous “President Thompson also has instilled a culture of accredited Professional Endowed scholarships serving U.S. Senator in executive in July 2002. Thompson earned a diploma in wide array of programs, including engineering and n Golf Management were a campaign priority, Maryland history) and Phi Kappa Phi honor society inductee teacher education from Bethlehem Teachers’ College in her growth occurred at a time entrepreneurship, enabling the institution to innovate aviation science, construction-management technology, program at an HBCU and and the institution raised Hazel Hall, named in native Jamaica. (She playfully calls herself “Jamerican”). when Historically Black and enhance its excellence and impact. I know the entire hotel and restaurant management, professional golf n Governor’s Award for Innovative Leadership a three-year doctorate in some $8 million in honor of Salisbury Her family moved in the 1960s to the Washington area, Colleges and Universities USM community joins me in thanking President pharmacy. Demand for endowed funds. management, and its new doctoral program in businessman and n Most Important Blacks in Technology Award where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in 1970, (HBCUs) faced stagnant Thompson for her visionary leadership and wishing her admission to the Thompson pharmacy.” philanthropist Richard F. winner; Black Engineer and Information Master of Arts in English in 1972, and a Ph.D. in English enrollments. UMES' success as she embarks on the next phase of her life.” pharmacy program was emphasized federal and Hazel. Technology Magazine literature in 1978, all at Howard University. popularity with students extraordinary: 931 state grants and sponsored research as funding sources for On the horizon: the state of Maryland has OK'd Upon being named president, Thompson said, “With attracted the attention of n Enstooled Queen Mother Nana Ama applications competed for 60 spots in the inaugural class campus programs. The result: nearly $200 million in funding planning funds for a $103 million engineering-airway the students at the center of the enterprise, I want to work peers, who consistently listed the university in the upper Abokomah I, Patron of the Ghana Queen tier of HBCUs in an annual higher education survey by U.S. seated in 2010. from government agencies were secured during her tenure. science building – with an anticipated groundbreaking in with all constituencies to make UMES a respected center of Mothers’ Association Enhancing the institution’s international presence was Her emphasis on out-of-the-box thinking is arguably 2014. learning. News & World Report. Thompson’s credentials as an authority on the another of Thompson’s signature priorities. UMES had 11 most evident when tallying the commercialization and Thompson’s emphasis on excellence also extended to

2 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 3 Welcoming back a former leader When Thelma B. Thompson announced New programs her retirement as University of Maryland approved by the Eastern Shore president University System of in the spring of 2011, University System of Maryland during Dr. Maryland Chancellor Thompson’s tenure: William Kirwan turned to someone with professional roots in Princess Anne to n Pharm.D. – Pharmacy serve as interim leader. Mortimer H. Neufville was a fixture at UMES n Ed.D. – Educational Leadership the arts and athletics. The UMES Jazz Band and the Concert New coaches in men’s and women’s basketball are Oh, and did we say she knew how to throw a party? between 1983 and 1996, where he held a number of Choir traveled from the nation’s capital to the Caribbean, leading a hoops resurgence. The track and cross country The annual UMES Gala raised thousands of dollars in n senior administrative posts. M.S. – Professional Science from Africa to Europe. Nobel Prize-winners, including the teams challenge annually for preeminence in the Mid- endowed scholarship funds. The last two featured Neufville has spent his career in higher education Master’s in Quantitative Rev. Desmond Eastern Athletic Conference. And the women’s bowling entertainers who brought international exposure to the reaching out to developing nations to help them Fisheries Jesse T. Williams Sr., UMES’ Board of Visitors Tutu, visited team captured two NCAA Division I national campus: Tyne Daly, Patty Duke, Lou Gossett Jr., David Alan improve their agricultural production. chair: “Her laser-like focus on academic excellence the campus championships, the first NCAA title for UMES and the first Grier, Pam Grier, B.B. King, Sharon Stone and Dionne n M.Ed. – Counselor Education and interacted Neufville previously held these other posts at and her insistence on academic integrity are the HBCU to claim an NCAA Division 1 national crown in a Warwick attracted sold-out audiences. with students. n B.A. – History hallmarks of her tenure.” women’s sport. President Thompson indeed made better best. UMES: Internationally “Her emphasis on securing accreditation for n Associate director - Maryland Agriculture acclaimed n B.S. – Urban Forestry nearly two dozen academic programs, the Experiment Station (1989-94) musicians, n B.S. – Engineering globalization of the curriculum; unprecedented including n Associate vice president for academic affairs fund-raising and securing grants and sponsored Wynton (1991-93) n B.S. – Professional Golf research cement her legacy.” Marsalis, n Acting vice president for academic affairs Management performed. (1993-94) n B.S. – Rehabilitation Psychology Pictured: n Vice president for academic affairs (1994-96) n B.A. – Social Studies Education Top, left-to-right: Entertainers Dionne Warwick, Herschel Neufville has a knack for being around UMES Walker, BB King, Lou Gossett Jr. and Patty Duke; Dr. Thompson during important times in its history. He was on a n B.S. – Biochemistry with Salisbury businessman Jim Perdue of Perdue Farms; on a visit to Africa to promote UMES; sharing a light-hearted committee that assembled material for a time capsule n M.S. – Chemistry moment with students. during the university's centennial 25 years ago and Bottom, left-to-right: UMES Board of Visitor members Fred was also here when it celebrated the 100th n M.S. – Medical Science in Lankford, Virginia B. Layfield and Roger Estep received anniversary of federal legislation that gave UMES a Physician Assistant Studies honorary degrees at a ceremony attended by Gov. Bob Ehrlich, boost as a land-grant school. Dr. Thompson, Board of Visitor member Sharon Pinder, He is a native of Jamaica. n Upper Division Certificate Maryland Higher Education Commission Secretary Calvin Burnett and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. First Lady Michelle Obama Program in Family Financial visited campus during her husband’s successful 2008 Planning Studies presidential campaign.

4 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 5 Somerset (over) Hall Pharmacy Oval landmark earns top "Green" honor

The United States Green Building Council awarded Renovations to Somerset Hall were designed and School launches its prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental built to consume less energy. Housekeeping products are recyclable, and made of non-toxic materials. Designated The charter class of pharmacy students started Design “Gold” certification to UMES for its $7.2 million parking spaces for electric and hybrid cars, and bicycle its three-year academic journey in August 2010. Nicholas R. Blanchard is the renovation of Somerset Hall. racks were also provided near the facility. founding dean of the School of The neo-Georgian style building became one of the Grimm + Parker Architects designed the project and Pharmacy and Health Professions at first certified projects on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to The University of Maryland Eastern Shore welcomed the charter class Holder Construction Co. served as the construction the University of Maryland Eastern achieve this recognition. management firm. Shore. Dr. Maurice Ngwaba, director of facilities planning, of doctoral students to its new pharmacy program in August 2010. The interior of the three-story building was gutted so Dr. Blanchard has more than two design and construction at UMES, called it a “rare contractors could install new interior walls and ceilings, The 64 students who comprised that class were the While the average age was 24 ½ years, students ranged in age decades of experience in the practice of accomplishment” for a building that old. “This award is a flooring, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, foundation for the university’s first professional school since from 18-to-42. Some have children. pharmaceutical sciences and education. thing of pride for UMES’ leadership and for the plumbing, electrical service and telecommunications its founding in 1886. When fully operationally in the fall Just over one-third have roots on Delmarva and 37 are Prior to joining the UMES faculty University System of Maryland.” systems (data, voice and video). 2012, approximately 180 students will be pursuing a doctor from the state of Maryland. Many have indicated they want to in 2008, he was assistant dean at the According to the Green Building Council, the “green Built in 1949, Somerset Hall was a dorm for more of pharmacy degree. remain in the region after earning their degrees. Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. building” rating system is a third-party certification than 30 years before being converted into classrooms. Campus, civic and political leaders labored (and Their training will prepare them for community or John Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y. He held similar program and a nationally accepted benchmark for design Today, it serves as the home of the School of Pharmacy. lobbied) tirelessly for nearly a decade to win approval for a institutional pharmacy, doing research or perhaps teaching positions at Texas Tech University and Washington State construction and operation of high-performance degree program in a profession desperately in need of an the next generation of pharmacists. University. He also has served in various clinical pharmacy environmentally friendly buildings. infusion. The late Page Elmore led that campaign in the What does a new pharmacy school at UMES mean? It is positions. state legislature and the school has plans to honor his another important component of allied-health training the His academic credentials include: memory and contributions with a scholarship program university has embraced as one of its niches over the past named in his honor. decade. • Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, University of North Projections by those who track employment and No longer do students contemplating a career in physical Carolina, Chapel Hill. cultural trends agree graduates should easily find a job in therapy, as a physician’s assistant – and now pharmacy – have • Master of Education, Campbell University, the pharmacy field when they complete their studies and to relocate to far-away institutions to reach their goal. Buies Creek, N.C. pass the national certification exam in 2013. America is a transient society, so there are no guarantees UMES is one of 12 higher education institutions in the UMES graduates will be behind the counter of your local • Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Washington. country that offers an intensive “block” curriculum that will pharmacy. • Residency in pediatric clinical pharmacy, Children’s be delivered in three years instead of the traditional four. But what UMES has done is create an option for future Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif. Students attend classes year-round, sacrificing precious generations to pick a career path where, as one of our guest free time with friends and family, and in some instances, speakers during orientation week so aptly put it, they can He is licensed to practice pharmacy in Maryland, their children. “make a real difference in people’s lives.” Delaware, North Carolina, New York and California. The first class was diverse in every possible measure. UMES stands ready to meet that challenge. His memberships include the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, Maryland Pharmacists Association, Delaware Pharmacists Society, North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group, Washington Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity and the Rho Chi Honorary Society.

6 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 7 Joining Elite Company IBM + UMES = JOBS The Department of Business, Management and Accounting became Unique collaboration helps grads compete for top IT jobs UMES’ 26th academic program to secure the peer-review credential

Dean Ayodele Alade The University of Maryland Eastern Shore satisfy 21 quality standards that included faculty Two weeks after turning the tassel that ceremoniously courses and added new ones to make UMES graduates professor and dean at the UMES School of Business and earned initial accreditation of its qualification, strategic management of resources, faculty and certifies his new undergraduate degree in finance, Nicholas competitive for IT and computer marketing jobs. Technology, calls the IBM collaboration led to a curriculum undergraduate business degree program in student interaction, as well as a commitment to continuous Wiggins headed off to launch a professional career at IBM in UMES President Thelma Thompson took steps to tailored for "preparing graduates for the business and the spring of 2011 from The Association to improvement and achievement of learning goals in degree Bethesda, Md. better prepare UMES business students, tapping (private information technology sectors." Advance Collegiate Schools of Business programs. He's among an estimated one million students who and) federal funds to hire a former IBM executive consultant "The university is always interested in working with International. Deans from other business schools who had detailed earned a college degree in the spring of 2011. But he stands with ties to the computer industry. The idea was to connect partners in the corporate world who can advise us on what Students in accredited business schools are viewed as knowledge of management education visited UMES and with fewer than half of them able to land a competitive job with a division of IBM in search of colleges and universities our students need academically to compete for the very best well-prepared job candidates upon graduation, both applied accreditation standards widely-accepted in the in their field of study. with whom it could partner. IBM would then advise on best jobs they can find," Alade said. educators and business leaders agree. education community in judging whether the university "I am very grateful to the university and the IBM instructional practices in information technology, business This article was excerpted from a report published May 31, 2011 in The (Salisbury, MD) The early April announcement from AACSB should be extended the credential. initiative for giving me the opportunity," said Wiggins on a and marketing. Daily Times. International put UMES in elite company. At the time, only Thomas L. Trice IV of Salisbury, a Certified Public road trip back to his hometown in Colorado. "The trend is Funding through the U.S. Department of Education led 620 schools of business – fewer than 5% worldwide – were Accountant and UMES Board of Visitors member, said definitely toward technology; and technology and finance to the appointment of consultant John Thompson, who led Photo top left: Consultant John Thompson, no relation to the president, helped bring the IBM curriculum to UMES. recognized with the hallmark of excellence in management accreditation is “a very significant accomplishment and complement each other very well. I took courses in a joint initiative to design an Enterprise Systems program at education. provides immediate, elite credibility to the department and enterprise computing, a very sought-after field. Being a UMES; then identify and recruit industry partners; recruit Photo bottom: IBM distinguished engineer Michael Browne of New Dean Ayodele Alade led a nearly six-year effort to the university.” finance major, that's huge for me. I'm thankful I was student activities and ES job placements with corporate York, fourth from left, does guest lecturing and underwrites financial aid to assist UMES undergraduates in the business school. Faculty realign the university’s business curriculum and to recruit a UMES is Maryland’s eighth university to earn advised to pursue the IBM initiative; being a finance major, partners; mentor students; and negotiate competitive and students gathered to thank him for his efforts. faculty with diverse skills to satisfy AACSB accreditation accreditation. it puts me in the best opportunity for success." salaries for ES students. standards. The UMES Department of Business began in 1958 with (Dr.) Bryant C. Mitchell, a professor in the UMES "The primary focus of the UMES Alade called pursuit of accreditation a “great and one program in business administration. As UMES and the business school, touted several students who either landed program is to develop a multi- coveted achievement” by a team of “hard-working faculty, department grew, more bachelor’s degree programs were jobs this year as graduates or interns with salaries that pay interdisciplinary curriculum delivered staff, and chair of the Department of Business, Management added, including accounting, business administration with at least $70,000. By comparison, the median starting salary across the schools of business, and Accounting and the Dean’s office.” concentrations in finance, and marketing and business for those who graduated between 2006 and 2008 was computer science, and When confirmation came, Alade described it as a education. Enrollment in the Department of Business, $30,000. For the 2009 and 2010 grads, it dipped to $27,000, engineering to replenish these humbling experience and a “dream come true.” Management and Accounting typically exceeds 400 according to the study by the Knowledge Networks for the specialized enterprise The university developed and implemented a plan to students. John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at computing skills for which Rutgers. 21st century corporate Mitchell, a chief faculty contact, credited a partnership America now requires," he that brought IBM engineers together with UMES faculty said. and administrators in a collaboration that modified existing (Dr.) Ayodele Alade,

8 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 9 Going Solar Jennifer Hearne BIG time course redesign leader UMES became a national leader in renewable energy when it transformed The university salutes associate professor Jennifer L. Hearne, Ph.D., for 17 acres into a solar collection system featuring 7,800 photovoltaic panels pioneering work to improve the way introductory chemistry is taught.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore and its 17-acre solar farm,” he told a crowd of nearly 150. Peers on campus, across the University System of cutting the cost of teaching by an estimated 70 percent, private-sector partner, SunEdison, activated a solar President Thelma B. Thompson described the activation Maryland and nationally extol Hearne for her redesign of in part, because students don’t have to retake the class. collection system in the spring 2011 that is delivering on a event as “historic for the University of Maryland Eastern UMES’ Principles of Chemistry course. Hearne credits Dr. Charles Williams, UMES’ vice promise to make the institution a leader in producing eco- Shore,” noting its role as “part of a world-wide effort to She is a scholar at the National Center for Academic president for academic affairs, with providing support for friendly energy. seek clean energy and renewable energy. For UMES to be Transformation (NCAT), which the organization's her course redesign ideas and encouraging her to share During its first 4½ months, a grid of 7,800 panels on the cutting edge of this is extremely exciting.” website describes as "an independent, not-for-profit them with colleagues. As a USM Course Redesign collected the equivalent of 1,491 megawatt hours of energy The solar farm will enable UMES to reduce its energy organization that provides leadership in using Faculty Fellow, Hearne supports her colleagues in – roughly enough to power every Princess Anne home for bills for two decades. information technology to redesign learning adopting course redesign. one month based on 2010 federal statistics for average The activation culminated four years of efforts by environments to produce better learning outcomes for Under the USM Carnegie Course Redesign Program electric consumption by Maryland UMES’ Division of Technology and Commercialization to students at a reduced cost to the institution.” six UMES courses are in the process of redesign: households. reduce energy costs. Dr. Ron Forsythe, who heads that In speeches about making academics more effective Principles of Biology I (Joseph Pitula, Ph.D.), College Local and state dignitaries, division, estimates the solar farm is capable of generating 15 and efficient, USM Chancellor William Kirwan points to Algebra (Candice Ridlon, Ph.D., and Manal Salamabi), educators, percent of the campus’ electricity needs. UMES and Hearne for a new, focused approach to Exploration of Visual Arts (Solomon Isekeije and Michel environmentalists and Dr. UMES struck an agreement with SunEdison to design, organizing chemistry classes and delivering instruction. Demanche), Introduction to Psychology (Michael William E. Kirwan, the construct and operate the solar farm. The Beltsville, Md.- As part of the Maryland Course Redesign Initiative Patterson, Ph.D.), Principles of Chemistry II (Uche University System of based company financed it at no cost to UMES or taxpayers. (2006-2009), a collaborative effort between USM and Udeochu, Ph.D. and Hearne) and Genetics (Joseph Maryland’s chancellor, In return, UMES purchases power from the solar farm at NCAT, Hearne retooled face-to-face lectures and set up Pitula, Ph.D.). Intermediate Algebra is currently being gathered at a converted long-term predictable rates to offset the university’s a computer lab where tutors provide on-demand redesigned (Manal Elbeshir and Ojiabo Ukoha, Ph.D.) as corn field on a brisk late demand from the energy grid. assistance to students completing assignments. part of the USM’s Growing by Degrees program. March morning to When the campus is closed and electricity demand is “Course redesign allows the institution to maximize Hearne earned her bachelor’s (Honors) in chemistry witness a “flip-the- low, UMES may be able to transfer electricity from the solar the efficiency and effectiveness of instruction while (summa cum laude) from the University of Maryland switch” event formally farm back to the energy grid and receive a credit toward containing costs,” Hearne said. Eastern Shore (1999) and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from signaling the project’s future bills. A gateway course where more than half of students the University of Delaware (2006). activation. At the time it began producing energy, the site was the were failing now reaches a 70 percent pass rate. They can Hearne returned to UMES as a faculty member in Developing and using largest concentration of photovoltaic modules in one stay on schedule to graduate. the Department of Natural Sciences' chemistry group in Ron Forsythe, UMES’s technology and commercialization clean, renewable energy is location in Maryland, according to SunEdison. “Chemistry is learned through practice,” she said. the fall of 2006. She conducts biomedical research vice president, USM Chancellor Brit Kirwan, President “a huge priority” for USM UMES is looking for other ways to cut its energy costs, “It turns them into active learners.” focusing on leishmaniasis, a parasitic protozoan disease Thelma Thompson, Franny Yuhas of SunEdison and Maryland state Sen. Jim Mathias “flip the switch” institutions, Kirwan said. possibly through a partnership with a company that makes Hearne’s approach also saves the university money, that can be deadly. signaling activation of UMES’ 17-acre solar farm. “The crown jewel is this wind-powered turbines. 10 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 11 Rural A test runway built on campus draws smiles from, left to right, Bernice Merritt, Development Wallops program manager - Hawk Institute for Space Science; Dan Kuennen, soars to new heights Maryland Cooperative Extension director; Hawk Institute CEO Ron Bettini; Dr. Ron Forsythe, UMES’ The Maryland Hawk Corporation (MHC), a 501(c) (3) Powered Paraglider: An aviation project aiming to technology and commercialization vice non-profit affiliated with the University of Maryland create high-tech jobs for the Eastern Shore is president; and Larry Eastern Shore, supports research and academic functions of designing and building the next generation Lederer, Hawk the university through mutually beneficial relationships of lightweight aircraft that resemble an Institute’s unmanned aerial system director. with public and private sector businesses and organizations. extreme dune buggy powered by a It is an independent entity under the direction and control small motor and huge of its Board of Trustees. propeller – all kept aloft by Family FARMS: A Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): UMES OK’d Center of Excellence for the commercialization of a $199,320 Family construction of a small-scale asphalt runway on the east MHC initiatives during the 2010-11 fiscal year a parachute. chicken feather fiber project to convert feathers into a FARMS project grant side of campus and was completed in the spring of 2011. included: Entrepreneurs plastic product. working with proposal was MHC underwrote part for the preparation of the Certificate • Collaborating with Chesapeake Bay Region Technical Poultry Partnership with AviHome, LLC: A second flock UMES researchers submitted to the of Authorization to the Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for the development of of chickens was placed and successfully raised in UMES’ and students are National Institute of "The runway is another step to encourage new commercial biodegradable plastic growing pots. commercial house. The USDA reimbursed MHC to pay looking for ways to Food and Agriculture business and new industry. We're creating industries Avihome, LLC for costs associated with its ongoing make paragliders to assist UMES particularly in high tech," said Dr. Ron Forsythe, UMES vice • Assisting Beach to Bay Seafood, a local seafood commercialization trials. stronger and lighter. Future Extension in president for technology and commercialization. company, to develop a seafood sauce and pasteurized After five years of research, development and testing, applications might include providing farmers Forsythe announced the airstrip project for unmanned seafood soup for commercialization. AviHome believes it has a commercially viable flooring and new entrants to aerial vehicles at the Salisbury Area Chamber of commercial clients, public • Assisting Knollege LLC, an online educational network system for poultry houses that can virtually eliminate agriculture training Commerce’s 23rd annual Economic Forecast 2011 forum in safety, emergency management, created by college students for peers taking similar ammonia emissions, which have tremendous implications and development in January 2011. homeland security, military, tourism classes. It enables them to share ideas, questions and for air and water quality improvement. AFS’ environmental sustainable, MHC also is: and outdoor sporting adventures. other educational knowledge. benefits also include reduced dust and particulate matter, Over the past decade, partnerships between the UMES profitable organic vegetable production and marketing • Assisting Luke’s Premier Foods, LLC in working with reduced energy usage, reduced manure volumes and Rural Development Center's Revolving Loan Fund, federal using labor-saving technologies. the university’s agriculture, food and resource science MHC is fully recognized by the Board of Regents of the different manure composition. and state agencies have enabled the university to invest in The project builds on UMES' award-winning Farmers division to develop a mobile processing system to University System of Maryland as a distinct business entity Next up: In cooperation with poultry integrators such technology firms as Hardwire, NavTrak, Harvard Access to Regional Markets (FARMS) process, which won convert fresh heirloom tomatoes into tomato nectar. and as a research foundation officially affiliated with UMES. Perdue, Mountaire and Fieldale, the project design will place the 2007 Regional W.K. Kellogg Outreach and Engagement The relationship gives it access to university resources Custom Manufacturing, Bel-Art and Matech, a Salisbury- • Collaborating with the USDA for the location of a a minimum of three of the new flooring systems in broiler Award. FARMS was deployed in the 1990s growing and (including lab space, land and faculty), but without the based engineering firm working to develop the new Spanish olive oil distribution facility in Somerset houses in Maryland, Delaware and Georgia. marketing floral bedding plants, baskets, and currently limitations of procurement, human resource, legal and generation of paraglider. County. orchids by over 41 new greenhouse growers in Maryland. decision-making business processes of a State-funded • Collaborating with Chesapeake Bay Region Technical academic institution.

12 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 13 Extending UMES’ reach create sustainable education opportunities for providing them with skills aimed at increasing their income UMES’ Dr. Arthur Allen continues looking for ways educators interested in bio-energy and bio- and at providing nutritious food. to perfect the use of gypsum curtains to reduce phosphorus based products. Dr. Anugrah Shaw, Mark Gooden and Xavier and other harmful elements from reaching the Chesapeake The National Institute of Food and Henry were honored for their work at UMES during the Bay. Agriculture grant underwrites the work of Association of Research Directors’ 16th biennial symposium His novel idea has drawn interest from the Natural researchers at UMES, Delaware State, Ohio in Atlanta, which attracted 700 faculty, staff, researchers and Resource Conservation Service’s Conservation Innovation Dr. Fawzy Hashem, an associate State, Pace Law School and Cornell. students from 1890 land-grant universities and Tuskegee Grants Program, which provided a $2 million grant to help research professor, received the 2010 Project UMES’ effort, led by Dr. Madhumi Mitra Institute. underwrite his research. of Excellence award from the National and Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, will focus on Henry, a graduate student specializing in food and Allen’s work is done in concert with a unique Institute of Food and Agriculture National research and education outreach in bio-diesel agricultural science, won first place for his oral presentation: partnership he initiated in 1999 with a U.S. Department of Water Program for his contribution in a study The U.S Department of Agriculture awarded UMES Agriculture unit at Penn State examining E. coli and salmonella in runoff $3.5 million in Capacity Building Grants – funds designated University. The CIG grant is the first water on the Eastern Shore. specifically for 1890 land-grant (HBCU) institutions – to awarded to an 1890 institution. Hashem headed a team of UMES strengthen the university’s research, teaching and extension The UMES Rural researchers that included: Brett Smith, capacity. Development Center was laboratory research technician; Dr. Arthur Federal funding from the National Institute of Food featured as a model program Allen, associate research director and and Agriculture over the past year represented about 10 during a conference in associate professor; Corrie Cotton, research percent of all grants the agency doled out. Among research Atlanta that focused on assistant professor; Dr. Lurline Marsh, projects at UMES Agricultural Experiment Station the grants Dr. Madhumi Mitra Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri Dr. Virginie Zoumenou Xavier Henry Dr. Anugrah Shaw Mark Gooden Dr. Arthur Allen historically black land- professor; and Leonard Kibet, research support: from vegetable oils and algae. Information will be shared to “Using Variable Rate Seeding to Maximize Corn Yield and grant institutions engaging in rural graduate assistant. help educators better prepare students for the various career Profit on a Field with Management Zones” in a competition business and cooperative development Hashem, who joined UMES in 2000, • Identifying certain plants as a source of biofuels, options available in the bio-energy and bio-based products that attracted 26 entries. across the South. does research involving environmental • Studying the role of cowpea production in bio-diversity field. Gooden, a student in the Food Science and Technology UMES’ center, established in 1990, microbiology, microbial source tracking, and food security, Dr. Virginie Zoumenou was one of 56 volunteers Ph.D. program, placed third in a graduate poster has responsible for funneling $2 million to biological control, bioremediation, awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award, a competition featuring his research: “Effect of Garlic and some 220 local economic development phytoremediation, plant-microbes • Exploring air and water quality protection, examining prestigious national honor offered in recognition of Papaya Seed on Fecal Egg Counts in Sheep and Goats.” projects, thereby leveraging some $25 interactions, environmental pollution and watershed levels and protecting the Chesapeake, volunteer service. Shaw, professor and textile technologist in the million in investments. food safety. • Addressing leafy greens and tomato safety for small A farmer-to-farmer assignment led Zoumenou, a Department of Human Ecology, does research into It provides financial and technical During his career, he has discovered a farmers, and certified nutrition specialist, licensed dietitian and 1890 protective clothing for pesticide applicators and was information for business start up and soybean-nodulating bacteria can also Family Consumer Science program leader at UMES, to serve recognized with the Excellence in Multi-state Research expansion projects, develops county and regional effectively nodulate alfalfa and bacterial • Investigating the safety of poultry and seafood as a Winrock International volunteer in Nigeria. Award for her two decades of work on testing methods, marketing materials, supports regional tourism viruses of the fast-growing soybean- distributed through Internet and local markets. She conducted hands-on training sessions over a performance specifications and studies related to the cooperation and resource-sharing among counties, assists nodulating bacteria. A five-year, $4.9 million federal grant is enabling three-week period for caregivers, ages 16 to 60, of development and evaluation of personal protective counties in promotional efforts to attract new business to UMES to participate in a research consortium working to HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children with the goal of equipment for hot climates. the area and supports studies in select industries.

14 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 15 Campaign for Excellence Opportunity. Distinction. Investment. Success!

June 30, 2011 will go down as an historic date for the Gains Hawkins, the university’s vice president for University of Maryland Eastern Shore. institutional advancement, said, “the most heartening It was the day a seven-year fund-raising campaign aspect of the campaign was our collective ability to ended with unparalleled success. significantly increase endowment giving. In 2008, the Richard A. Henson Foundation made a gave of his resources and … much of that vision is reality.” In 2004, university leaders announced a goal of raising “Our campaign priority was to raise endowment gifts, $1.5 million challenge gift to the University of Maryland Counting the campaign gift, Henson, who died in 2002, $14 million by mid-2011. When all the donations and gifts especially those that would go toward student Eastern Shore Foundation to establish the Henson and his foundation have supported UMES with nearly $4.5 were added up, the total was closer to $15 million. scholarships,” he said. Entrepreneurs and Scholars Endowment Program. million. The university also recognized Henson’s The tally was remarkable for many reasons, but two “We added almost $8 million in endowment gifts, Henson, an aviator, businessman and philanthropist, transformational and inter-generational generosity by stand out. The effort to raise funds for UMES from the funds that will continue to provide support for UMES and was a pioneer in designing the modern-day system of naming its honors program after him. private sector was the most ambitious in school history. And its students long after we are gone,” Hawkins said. commuter airline travel. He started his career in In 2010 and again in 2011, the university kept the focus it came in spite of an economic downturn the likes of which The late Richard F. Hazel, former president of the Hagerstown, but relocated to Salisbury and made it his on the campaign by playing host to a late winter party that the nation had not experienced since the Great Depression. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Salisbury, got the campaign adopted hometown. Near the end of his life, he established featured celebrities from entertainment and sports fields as Opportunity. Distinction. Investment. Those were the rolling when he made the largest private gift on record at a foundation, which in turn sought ways to support causes guests. UMES supporters and prospective donors made words that drove the “Campaign for Academic Excellence.” the time to a historically black college in Maryland. On that interested him. both events a “sell out,” generating additional gifts that The focus was building endowments and support Sept. 20, 2004, UMES announced a $3 million gift from The Henson Entrepreneurs and Scholars Program at went toward the campaign total. mechanism for students, many of whom come to UMES as Hazel would be used to benefit the institution’s teacher UMES focuses on producing globally competent, Over the seven-year campaign, alumni – and the first in their families to enroll in college. education program. entrepreneurial-minded graduates in business, science, sometimes their children – along with corporate citizens Some of Delmarva’s most prominent and recognizable In recognition of Hazel’s contribution and lifelong technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. such as Perdue, Verizon, Walgreens and McDonald’s also names eagerly stepped forward with signature gifts that commitment to his community, the University System of Steve Farrow, chairman of the board of directors of the helped make the fund-raising effort an unqualified Pictured: went a long way toward helping launch the university on its Maryland governing board OK’d the naming of the Henson Foundation, said, “"With so many deserving causes achievement. successful fund-raising journey. university’s $30 million, publicly funded education, social Opposite page: Allen J. Singleton, class of 1959, is a leading UMES and institutions in the local area, one of the difficult tasks The 2011-12 academic year will mark the 125th year benefactor. Faculty, staff and alumni pitched in as well. Allen J. science and health science building “Hazel Hall” in his we face as Richard A. Henson Foundation trustees is since the institution’s founding, when nine students and Singleton Top clockwise: The Salisbury-based Richard A. Henson Foundation , class of 1959, set the standard when he pledged honor. deciding how to allocate the Foundation's resources. three instructors gathered in a converted farm house to start donated $1.5 million as a challenge gift in 2008 that helped UMES meet $355,000, the single-largest gift an alumnus has given the Hazel was widely known across Delmarva as a Farrow said participating in the UMES campaign “was an educational journey that continues to this day. its capital campaign goal. school since its founding in 1886. generous philanthropist with a wide variety of interests. His an easy decision because of Richard Henson's strong UMES’ over-arching mission remains as true today as it Walgreens Co. has been an early and loyal supporter with donations to Thirty percent of UMES employees made a donation to donation sent an important message and set the tone for feelings for and belief in this institution.” was then: to provide access to higher education to those UMES’ new School of Pharmacy. the campaign. More than half of all entities who gave came the fund-raising campaign. “Over 20 years ago,” Farrow said, “he and Dr. William who come from economically challenged backgrounds, Alumni affairs director, Kim Dumpson, accepts a $50,000 gift from from alumni and alumni organizations. Hytche had a vision of what UMES could be. Mr. Henson especially minorities and first-generation college students. William R. Roberts, president of Verizon – Maryland / DC. 16 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 17 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 19 Rolling a 2012 Bernstein winner Kristina M. Frahm of Oswego, Ill. was the 2011 winner of the Richard Bernstein Achievement Award for Excellence, an honor that recognizes the top senior in select academic disciplines. Rare Double Frahm received a $5,000 cash award named for and established by the local philanthropist and businessman credited with UMES bowlers win two national titles in one year – bringing high technology to Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Frahm was a dean’s list student throughout her undergraduate career. something no other college team has done She was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Beta Delta honor societies, and the National Society of Leadership and Success. She was also a member of UMES’ Federal Reserve Challenge Team in 2009. Kristina Frahm, Martha Perez and Maria Rodriquez “open,” where top squads from four- and two-year ranked squad, three times and Vanderbilt Not only did the accounting major excel ended their collegiate bowling careers the way they started institutions as well as club teams are invited to compete. twice to do the trick. academically – she graduated magna cum as freshmen four years earlier – with an NCAA Division 1 UMES’ reputation earned it a spot in that tournament and The ITC title came after defeating laude – Frahm was an anchor on the championship. the bowlers came home with a second crown. Lindenwood University of St. Charles, Mo. women’s bowling team that won three A final-match victory over Vanderbilt University of the The three of seniors who graduated in in the finals of that 16-team tourney. national championship titles during her four years at UMES. Southeastern Conference marked the second time in four May 2011 were widely credited with making Other members of the Lady Hawks’ In the community, Frahm volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, Relay for Life years the university won the national title. the University of Maryland Eastern Shore a championship roster were freshman Megan and tutored fellow accounting students on a regular basis. The Lady Hawk keglers, led by head coach Sharon nationally recognized power in women’s Buja, sophomores T’nia Falbo and Anggie Frahm accomplished all of this while coming to grips with the death of her Brummell, then topped that feat a week later by doing collegiate bowling circles. Ramirez and junior Paula Vilas. mother, Carrie, during her sophomore year. something no other collegiate team – women’s or Frahm, a dean's list student in “It’s so very exciting, I don’t even know “Kristina triumphed over adversity and maintained a record of achievement rivaling any I have encountered men’s – has done. They won a second national title in accounting who received the university's how to put it into words,” said Vilas, one of in my career,” said Dr. Kate Brown, chair of the Department of Business, Management and Accounting. the same year – this one the United States Bowling most prestigious student honor – the seven team members who made history for Frahm said she “worked so hard the four years I’ve been here. I know that my mother would be proud of Congress’ Intercollegiate Team Championship. Bernstein Achievement Award - was named UMES. me. She was in accounting, too.” The ITC event is essentially an the 2011 NCAA tournament's Most Vilas pumped up students, staff and Frahm was National Rookie of the Year for 2007-08 and a four-time all American honoree by the National Outstanding Performer. Rodriguez, the 2011 faculty who turned out for a Championship Tenpin Coaches Association. She was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament’s Most national bowler of the year, filled the role Rally May 3 with her entrance into the Outstanding Player and led the team to an NCAA Division I championship in 2008. The team repeated that of anchor for the UMES team. William P. Hytche Athletic Center. Raising feat in 2011, and also won the national college team title from the United States Bowling Congress. UMES came out of the her arms in the air, the 22-year-old UMES During her senior year, the NCAA named Frahm its top student-athlete in the national bowling tournament losers’ bracket of the junior cart wheeled between a gantlet of and she was a finalist for national female athlete of the year. She also was the MEAC female athlete of the year. round-robin / double- cheerleaders. Frahm credited time management as the key to a successful college career, doing homework on the road elimination tournament “It feels really great getting so much and on airplanes and spending late nights studying, she said. “For earning my degree, it’s worth it and I love to win the NCAA title. support,” the exuberant Argentinean said. the sport of bowling.” The Lady Hawks The rally concluded with the unveiling The Bernstein Award is an unrestricted gift, awarded to a UMES senior graduating in business, accounting, defeated Fairleigh of the three championship banners from the science, engineering, construction management technology, and mathematics or computer science. Dickinson 2011 season: the Mid-Eastern Athletic The recipient must demonstrate leadership abilities at school or in the community, effectiveness on an University, the Conference (MEAC) title, the NCAA interpersonal basis, a high degree of integrity, the ability to work with others, outstanding performance in nation’s top- championship and the USBC Collegiate title. academic work, the potential for continued scholarly work and evidence of overcoming physical or personal obstacles to earn a degree. Frahm has her eyes set on becoming a Certified Public Accountant and possibly a professional bowler. 20 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 21 Three UMES students contemplating careers in politics Dr. Peggy Naleppa, a prominent The National Science earned academic credit working for state lawmakers during lower Eastern Shore leader and Peninsula Foundation awarded UMES’ Center the 2011 General Assembly session. A $15,000 donation Regional Medical Center president, joined for Research Excellence in Science News and Notes from a Salisbury attorney underwrote the political the university’s Board of Visitors, an all- and Technology (CREST) a $5 million internship program coordinated by history professor Dr. volunteer panel that advises the UMES grant to study water quality in Kathryn Barrett-Gaines. president. coastal bays over the next five years. Participants and their legislator-mentors were: Center director Paulinus UMES President Thelma B. Thompson was awarded about UMES Chigbu’s research team will focus on • Phylicia Henry from Largo; Del. Melony Griffith, an honorary degree by the Baltimore-based Sojourner- the impact human activities, District 25 (Prince George’s County). Douglas College in recognition of her life’s achievements as Four senior administrators assumed new jobs at the particularly land use, and climate Donations from alumni, their families as well as businesses and friends continued to make their mark an educator and higher education administrator, and as a University of Maryland Eastern Shore during the 2010-11 • Clifford Glover from Silver Spring; Del. Luiz change have on coastal bays and on the institution. Verizon contributed $50,000 to support teacher internships, while Perdue made an annual role model for women. academic year. Simmons, District 17 (Montgomery County). lagoons along southern Delmarva’s $10,000 contribution to support graduate studies in food sciences. To help support the new doctoral program Dr. Thompson and • Sade Parker from Upper Marlboro; Sheila E. Atlantic coast. • Dr. Anthony L. Jenkins took in pharmacy, Walgreens also made a $10,000 gift. Dr. Veronique Diriker, over as vice president of Hixson, District 20, (Montgomery County). Sarah Miles Woods, right, of Crisfield donated $50,000 in honor of her late parents, Howard and UMES’ director of student affairs and enrollment Radio World, a leading radio industry magazine read Marguerite Woods, class of 1915. Alumni Bill Jones and his wife, Willetta, of Charlotte, N.C., UMES students worked as full-time office staffers, development, were named management in January. A 1995 by broadcast radio owners, managers and engineers, below left, and Daniel and Loretta Savoy of Salisbury, below center, each fulfilled pledges conducted research directed by Dr. Barrett-Gaines, kept to The Daily Record of graduate of Fayetteville State described WESM 91.3 FM, which broadcasts from the to contribute $10,000 during the capital campaign. journals recording their experiences and wrote reports. Baltimore’s 2011 list of the University, Jenkins previously Maryland’s 100 most UMES campus, as the best jazz station in the region, which The U.S. News & World Report annual survey of was dean of students at the Kathleen Talbert, class of 1951, established a fund to support music education with a influential women. It was Thompson’s second selection to includes major listening markets of New York, Philadelphia, America’s best colleges again listed UMES in the upper tier University of Houston – Clear $10,000 donation in honor of Clarice J. Michaels and John T. Williams. the list. Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk and Richmond. Lake. His Ph.D. in student of historically black institutions, according a survey of Evelyn Sample-Oates, far right, and her family announced UMES continued its success in attracting external affairs is from Virginia Tech. HBCU administrators. UMES also was among the nation’s The Department of intentions of establishing a $10,000 fund in honor of the late top 16 public HBCUs in that same survey. Engineering and Aviation funding to underwrite important research projects, which in • Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, Johnny Sample, an alumnus who played professional Sciences formed an Engineering some cases also provide Enrollment topped the 4,500-student mark during the who served three years as football. The Class of 1969 went public with its plans to Advisory Council, a panel of undergraduates and graduate past year, a first in UMES’ long history. While many of its interim dean of UMES graduate raise $40,000 for student scholarships while one of its local professionals who will students with hands-on experience peers experienced challenges in maintaining enrollment, school, was named to fill the members, Owen Johnson, made a $10,000 gift- provide input on curriculum, alongside faculty-mentors. post as head of the School of pledge to the School of Arts and Professions for the dean’s discretionary fund. UMES has had a steady uptick in student enrolled since the educational objectives, as well UMES is working with Salisbury Graduate Studies. turn of the century. A trust created by the late Thomas G. Hanley, a Worcester County businessman and as industry trends and University in training “Great • Dr. Ellis B. Beteck returned philanthropist, made a $250,000 gift to the hotel and restaurant management department. The graduate placement. The Principals for Maryland” by using a Frederick to UMES to become dean of Winston M. Trader, who manages the trust, said his uncle dabbled in the hotel business in council is chaired by Ricky UMES revived a music tradition when a $1 million federal grant to fund a Douglass library services. Early in his Ocean City and thought helping an institution training future hospitality industry Stanfield, a Northrop group of alumni raised enough private funds to new Lower Eastern Shore School Library and career, Beteck served as workers would meet with Hanley’s approval. Grumman Corp. engineer sponsor a pep band that performs primarily at Leadership Institute. coordinator of public services Office of who is also an adjunct And loyal alumnus Art Shell again lent his name, time and efforts to a celebrity basketball games. Jesse Williams (class of 1962) The grant comes from the at the Frederick Douglass Alumni Affairs instructor. golf tournament at Great Hope Golf Course to support student scholarships at his and some of his contemporaries felt Hawk federal government’s K-12 school Library for six years. collaborated alma mater, which is nurturing a golf The University System of hoopsters needed musical accompaniment to improvement initiative, Race to the on a project to Top. Aspiring principals will learn • Dr. T. H. Baughman, a management degree program. Maryland’s governing board keep fans engaged in games – especially when the convert strategies to lead public schools historian by training, moved Nearly two dozen of Shell’s in June gave UMES the OK to teams play conference opponents. UMES expected to meet annual student east from the University of friends and peers from the world offer a bachelor’s degree in The Thunderin’ Hawks even participated in yearbooks performance accountability Central Oklahoma after being of professional sports joined local biochemistry and master’s the 2011 Homecoming parade, which returned to into a digital standards. A focus of the training is named dean of the School of golfers for a fun day on the links degrees in chemistry and the municipal streets of Princess Anne during the format that can be viewed online. closing the achievement gap between Arts and Professions. near Westover. medical science - physician last weekend in February after an absence some assistant studies. recall as nearly two decades. student groups.

22 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 • 23 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND UMES BOARD OF VISITORS UMES SENIOR LEADERSHIP OFFICE of the PRESIDENT UMES DEANS 2011 2012 2013 BOARD OF REGENTS Jesse T. Williams Sr., Chair Dr. Thelma B. Thompson Dr. Emmanuel Acquah Dr. Ayodele Alade Actual Appropriation Allowance Clifford M. Kendall, Chairman John Allen President Executive Director, International School of Business and Technology Programs UMES Total Number of Authorized Positions 726.77 754.32 754.32 Orlan M. Johnson, Vice Chairman Eileen Burza Dr. Charles Williams Dr. T. H. Baughman Total Number of Contractual Positions 125.00 130.00 130.00 Patricia S. Florestano, Treasurer Austin Cox Vice President for Academic Affairs Keith Davidson School of Arts and Professions Barry P. Gossett, Assistant Treasurer Charles W. Foster Athletics Director Dr. Ronnie E. Holden Dr. Ellis B. Beteck The Hon. C. Thomas McMillen, Secretary Gladys B. Goslee Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits 64,805,424 68,908,021 68,859,792 Thomas G. Slater, Esq., Assistant Secretary Vice President for Administrative Affairs Dr. Frances McKinney Library Services Financials Alicia Hoffman Director, Title III Gary L. Attman Technical and Special Fees 157,856 288,642 288,642 Fred Lankford Gains Hawkins Dr. Nicholas Blanchard Norman R. Augustine Vice President for Institutional Advancement Dr. Stanley M. Nyirenda School of Pharmacy and Health Operating Expenses 57,128,354 55,402,671 56,426,179 Dr. Margaret Naleppa Leslie Hall, Student Regent Director, Institutional Research, Professions Sharon R. Pinder Dr. Anthony L. Jenkins 122,091,634 124,599,334 125,574,613 Louise Michaux Gonzales Planning and Assessment Linda R. Gooden Dianna Rogers-Ford Vice President for Student Affairs and Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes Earl F. Hance, ex officio Lauren C. Taylor Enrollment Management Dr. Rolanda C. Burney School of Graduate Studies Special Assistant to the President Beginning Fund Balance before State Actions 7,063,869 8,925,138 9,811,351 The Hon. Francis X. Kelly Jr. Thomas L. Trice IV Dr. Ronald G. Forsythe Dr. Jurgen Schwarz, interim Dr. Frank M. Reid III Jeffery Turner Vice President for Technology and School of Agricultural and Natural James L. Shea Frank White Commercialization Sciences Current Unrestricted Revenue Paul L. Vance Dr. H. DeWayne Whittington John L. Young, M.D. Tuition and Fees 26,909,467 29,357,775 30,471,038 Dr. Julius D. Zant State General Funds 30,678,384 30,460,771 30,437,422 ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND CHANCELLOR Higher Education Investment Fund 1,188,914 1,651,765 1,537,130 Dr. William E. (Brit) Kirwan Dr. Sarah Acquah Federal Grants and Contracts 1,090,092 729,073 729,073 Center for International Education DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Dr. Leon Copeland Dr. Gurdeep Hura Dr. James Junker Dr. David Spinner Dr. Henry Brooks Private Gifts, Grants and Contracts 58,829 245,078 245,078 Technology Math and Computer Science Pharmaceutical Sciences Criminal Justice Dr. Raymond L. Blakely Maryland Cooperative Extension State and Local Grants and Contracts 0 0 0 Dr. Robert B. Dadson, acting Solomon Isekeije, interim Dr. Nina A. Lyon-Bennett Dr. William Talley Physical Therapy William Dillon Agriculture, Food and Fine Arts Human Ecology Rehabilitation Services Sales and Services of Educational Activities 73,301 113,280 113,280 Dr. Ernest Boger III PGA Golf Management Resources Sciences Mrs. Darlene Jackson-Bowen Dr. Joseph M. Okoh Dr. Karen Ann Verbeke Sales and Services of Auxiliary Enterprises 32,486,274 29,560,989 29,601,712 Hotel and Restaurant Dr. Harry E. Hoffer Dr. James Heimdal Physician Assistant Natural Sciences Education Other Sources 609,580 485,797 485,797 Management Organizational Leadership Exercise Science Dr. Yuanwei Jin, interim Dr. Kelli Randall, interim Transfer (to)/from fund balance (1,861,270) (886,213) (926,936) Dr. Kathleen M. Brown Daniel Kuennen Dr. Junior R. Hopwood Engineering and English and Modern Business Management Rural Development Total Unrestricted Revenue 91,233,571 91,718,315 92,693,594 and Accounting Social Sciences Aviation Science Languages

Current Restricted Revenue Federal Grants and Contracts 29,182,538 30,755,056 30,755,056 UMES lost three leaders and friends – Private Gifts, Grants and Contracts 69,532 484,035 484,035 State and Local Grants and Contracts 1,579,754 1,621,211 1,621,211 administrator Dennis Ignasias, lawmaker D. Page Elmore and health care leader Virginia Layfield. Sales and Services of Educational Activities 0 0 0 Ignasias worked at During two terms in the Maryland House of Layfield, a long-time Eastern Endowment Income 26,239 20,717 20,717 UMES for 37 years and served Delegates, Elmore was a staunch advocate for UMES Shore health care administrator, was Other Sources 0 0 under five university and was instrumental in convincing state policymakers an early member of UMES Board of Total Restricted Revenue 30,858,063 32,881,019 32,881,019 presidents. He was widely to approve the addition of a doctoral program in Visitors when it formed in the 1990s respected, according to Dr. pharmacy, which launched in August 2010. and was an emeritus member when Elmore’s wife, Carolyn, and nephew, Fred she died in the spring of 2011. Total Revenue 122,091,634 124,599,334 125,574,613 Ronnie Holden, vice president for administrative affairs, who Lankford, decided to honor his memory and worked with Ignasias for acknowledge his role as a champion for expanding Ending CUF Balance 8,925,138 9,811,351 10,738,287 more than three decades. degree options at UMES with a scholarship fund. 24 • UMES ANNUAL REPORT 2011 college students of all races, while emphasizing multicultural diversity and international perspectives. In addition, the University serves the education Mission and research needs of businesses, industries, government and non- government organizations. The University is committed to meeting the The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the State’s Historically Black 1890 economic development needs on the Eastern Shore; workforce development Land-Grant institution, emphasizes baccalaureate and graduate programs needs of the state; international development priorities of the nation; and in the liberal arts, health professions, engineering and technology, sciences commercialization and entrepreneurial ventures of the University through and teacher education. In keeping with its land-grant mandate, the engagement activities and partnerships. University’s purpose and uniqueness are grounded in distinctive learning, discovery and engagement opportunities in agriculture, human ecology, UMES is a teaching/research institution that nurtures and launches globally marine and environmental sciences, technology, engineering and aviation competent citizens. It will continue to embrace its interdisciplinary sciences, health professions, business and hospitality management. Degrees curriculum, sponsored research initiatives, rural and economic development are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. priorities and community engagement. UMES will continue to expand its partnerships and collaborative arrangements with the University System of UMES is committed to providing access to high-quality values-based Maryland institutions, other universities, community colleges, public schools, educational experiences, including individuals who are first-generation government and other external agencies and constituencies.