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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