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The Newsletter of the Maryland Independent College and University Association
MICUA Matters
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 FALL 2008
MICUA Members Target Sellinger Funds to Needy Maryland Residents
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n a move to address the surge in financial aid For well over 200 years, Maryland has main-
applications produced by a troubled econ- tained a public/private partnership with its
omy and an uncertain job market, the independent colleges and universities. In 1973,
MICUA Board of Trustees challenged member the State replaced an earlier grant program with
institutions to dedicate at least 70% of the fiscal the Joseph A. Sellinger State Aid Program, which
2009 Sellinger funds to financial aid for Maryland awards modest grants to eligible independent
residents. In September, Maryland’s independent colleges and universities through a formula linked
colleges and universities met and exceeded that to the per-student appropriation at certain public
challenge by dedicating 75% of Sellinger funds in universities. These funds are used by Maryland’s
the form of financial aid to Maryland residents, independent colleges and universities to address
with the majority of that aid distributed to the goals established in the Maryland State Plan for
students based on need. “Providing financial Postsecondary Education.
assistance to economically disadvantaged Mary-
land residents has always been a top priority for In addition to meeting the financial need of
the Sellinger Program and a major commitment Maryland residents, the fiscal 2009 Sellinger
by MICUA member institutions,” said MICUA funds will be used for other important State
President Tina Bjarekull. “Today, we are seeing initiatives, such as responding to workforce
double-digit increases in the number of students shortages, bringing academic programs to
requesting assistance. Maryland’s higher educa- underserved areas of the State, and expanding
tion institutions must find ways to help these minority outreach programs.
students enroll and remain in college.”
McDaniel Students Help Get Out the Vote
D
ozens of McDaniel College students are turning their words into action by signing up to
work as election judges at polling places across Carroll and Baltimore counties during the
November election. McDaniel was one of two Maryland colleges—the other is the Univer-
sity of Baltimore—and 25 others nationwide awarded grants this summer
from the Help America Vote College Program. McDaniel was awarded
$32,000 to recruit students to work the polls on Election Day, Nov. 4. This
is the first year McDaniel has been awarded one of the grants, which will
allow the College to enlist as many as 100 students to work the polls. To
participate, students must be registered to vote in Maryland and commit to a
three-hour training session at the county elections board. Students will be
paid $25 for completing the training, and can expect to be paid about $160
for their work at the polls on Election Day.
The Help America Vote College Program is a major initiative of the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission (EAC), an independent bipartisan commis-
sion. The EAC launched the Help America Vote College Program three
years ago to alleviate poll worker shortages, such as those experienced
during the 2004 election, according to the EAC’s website.
PAGE 2 MICUA MATTERS
MICUA Science Teachers “Lead the Way”
A
national training program for high school science teachers took
place at Stevenson University’s Greenspring campus in July as
part of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), an initiative which
promotes pre-engineering and biomedical science courses for middle and
high school students. Stevenson (formerly Villa Julie College) became
Maryland’s university affiliate for Project Lead The Way in 2007 when
the Maryland State Department of Education awarded the University a
biomedical sciences affiliate grant. The University is one of only two
institutions in the nation to offer teacher training in the biomedical
sciences for the initiative.
Two other MICUA institutions—Johns Hopkins University and
Capitol College—are also affiliated with Project Lead The Way.
“Project Lead the Way is especially sensitive to minority and women’s Capitol College professor John Ryan
issues, just as we are here at Capitol,” says John Ryan, a Capitol professor
of digital electronics who teaches for PLTW. “We want to encourage women; for example, we don’t
want girls to opt out of an opportunity in engineering because they are the only female in a class-
room full of males.”
St. John’s Program Reaches Out to Annapolis Youth
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n the past year, St. John’s College students have engaged in community service in a variety of
ways, from tutoring local children to working on Habitat for Humanity projects. In fall 2007 a
group of students co-founded a new program: Epigenesis, a year-round leadership development
program for Annapolis youth “who have experienced serious difficulties in life,” says one of Epigene-
sis’ student founders, St. John’s junior Jamaal Barnes. Four students created Epigenesis, and by spring
2008 the group received seed money: a $10,000 grant from The Davis Projects for Peace program.
Epigenesis founders selected teens to participate after making contacts with high school, social service,
and community organizations in Annapolis. The founders designed the curriculum and held leader-
ship workshops to prepare the teens for a week-long community service trip this past summer to a
rural village in the Dominican Republic.
These teens are continuing their leadership
training with Epigenesis this fall, and by spring
2009 they will be mentors in their own
communities and help train the next group of
Epigenesis teens.
The Epigenesis program arose from a growing
concern among students over social problems
in Annapolis, including drug-related violence,
a high drop-out rate for students of color, and
a lack of opportunity for area youth, says
Jamaal. “Epigenesis was inspired by a love for
the Annapolis community,” he says. “Instead
of being worried and concerned and sitting in
our lofty positions on campus, our education
inspires us to act. If something’s wrong, we
should try to fix it in whatever way we can.”
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 PAGE 3
MICUA CAPITAL PROJECTS
Helping to Fill Maryland’s Workforce Shortages
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n the 2009 legislative session, in private capital
MICUA is requesting $10 million investments.
in capital improvement grants Every year,
from the State for construction and MICUA institu-
renovation projects at three member tions expend
institutions. “These State investments about $150
will leverage private resources to million on
respond to three critical workforce capital construc-
shortage needs in Maryland,” says tion, primarily
MICUA President Tina Bjarekull. paid to con-
“The College of Notre Dame project struction firms
will assist the State in meeting a with offices in
serious shortage of pharmacists, the Maryland.
Baltimore International College
project will address the increasing With a School of Pharmacy slated to
demand for students in the hospitality open in 2009, College of Notre
and tourism industries, and the Dame of Maryland plans to reno-
Capitol College project is aligned vate an existing facility and build an “These State
with the State’s BRAC needs.” addition to house the new doctoral
program. The program will provide a investments will
All three projects support the State’s distinctive focus on leadership devel-
goals for higher education, meet the opment and women’s health care leverage private
eligibility requirements established by across the lifespan and will be open to
the Department of Budget and women and men. The School of resources to
Management, are approved unani- Pharmacy will include approximately
22,000 square feet respond to three
of renovated space
and a 17,000- critical workforce
square-foot
addition to the shortage needs in
existing Knott
Science Center. ”
Maryland, says
When completed,
these facilities will MICUA President
provide instruc-
tional, research, Tina Bjarekull.
and office space for
a projected 300
students and 46
faculty and staff.
The total project
mously by the MICUA Board of cost is estimated at $15 million, and
Trustees, and are directly related to College of Notre Dame is requesting
the missions of the individual colleges. a $4 million State capital grant.
These colleges plan to use the State
grants to leverage nearly $20 million (Continued on page 4)
PAGE 4 MICUA MATTERS
“The College is
excited to begin
this project,
Aging populations establishing Notre
Dame as the only
in the United women’s college in
the country with a
States—combined school of phar-
macy located on its
with advances in campus,” says
College of Notre
pharmaceuticals— Dame President
Mary Pat Seur-
have placed kamp. “The
success of this
pharmacists at the program will require a renovation and With only one pharmacy school in
expansion of current science facilities. the State, it is impossible to accom-
center of the health The College has sought to reduce the modate existing demand. A new
cost of this project by first recapturing school of pharmacy at Notre Dame
care delivery and renovating existing space in the will supply an increased number of
Knott Science Center.” trained pharmacists to serve Maryland
system. populations.
Aging populations in the United
States—combined with advances in Baltimore International College
pharmaceuticals—have placed phar- seeks to transform a vacant public
macists at the center of the health care school building in Little Italy into a
delivery system. Despite the increas- culinary and hospitality training
ing need for trained pharmacists, center. The renovation of this facility
current schools of pharmacy only will provide a 60 percent increase in
have the capacity to accept one culinary laboratory classrooms and the
student for every five to ten appli- addition of two computer labs and
cants. The result of this instructional nine lecture classrooms. The total
shortfall is evident in project cost is approximately $8
national and State million, and BIC is requesting a $3.5
surveys. The Aggre- million State capital grant.
gate Demand Index
(AGI) is a national A major renovation of the former
survey about the public school building—which was
pharmacist shortage built in 1910—is essential to maintain
that is updated the structural integrity of the building
monthly. The index and eliminate costly deterioration. Up
ranks states on a -to-date educational facilities and
scale of 1 to 5, with classrooms in sufficient numbers are
1 showing a surplus critical to educating and training men
of pharmacists and a and women with the appropriate skills
5 the highest level to enter the Maryland tourism,
of demand. Mary- foodservice, and lodging industries.
College of Notre Dame’s Knott Science
land shows an ADI
Center of 3.6 as of July 2008, indicating a “An expanded BIC facility with
severe shortage of pharmacists. increased enrollment will aid in both
(Continued on page 5)
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 PAGE 5
another in order to educate innova-
stability and growth in developing the
workforce for the Maryland econ- tors and leaders in information
omy,” says BIC President Roger assurance,
Chylinski. “There are no viable computer
alternatives in the State due to the science, business
uniqueness of the educational pro- leadership, and
grams.” According to the Governor’s other technical
Workforce Investment Board, Mary- fields. The need
for technical
land’s multibillion dollar hospitality
and tourism industry employs almost leaders and
230,000 people. The biggest work- leaders of
technology
force challenge in the industry is that
“Maryland does not have an adequate centers has been
supply of suitable workers.” Industryidentified as a
critical need for
and government statistics predict that
over the next five to ten years the government as
hospitality industry will have a well as business.
shortage of an estimated 1.1 million Recent reports
workers. to Congress by the U.S. Government Baltimore International College’s culinary
and hospitality training center
Accountability Office indicate that
The renovated building will house demand for experientially-based
five additional culinary laboratory information assurance professionals is
classrooms, a 125-seat demonstration already at critical levels nationally. In
theater, and the graduate school, addition, this initiative addresses
including a distance-learning class- Maryland’s growing needs for a Maryland’s
room with Smart Classroom Technol- technologically-savvy workforce,
driven by the Base Realign- multibillion dollar
ment and Closure Act.
hospitality and
The total project cost—to
construct a facility for the tourism industry
Innovation and Leadership
Institute (ILI) and to employs almost
expand laboratory capabili-
ties in the ever-growing 230,000 people. The
field of information assur-
ance—is estimated at $6.3 biggest workforce
million. Capitol College is
requesting a $2.5 million challenge in the
State capital grant. Once
completed, the Institute industry is that
ogy for the new online master’s will provide a place for academic
degree program in hospitality man- study and a business incubation Maryland does not
agement. Also included in the facility center. The ILI will offer students
will be faculty offices, a student study opportunities for interdisciplinary have an adequate
lounge, a cafeteria, two computer interaction and mentoring to hone the
labs, nine lecture classrooms, and five leadership skills necessary for future supply of suitable
meeting rooms. engineering and IT professionals.
Finally, the information assurance workers.
Capitol College plans to construct laboratories will house a cyber battle
one new building and renovate (Continued on page 6)
PAGE 6 MICUA MATTERS
lab and a computer
forensic investigation
Capitol College is center.
recognized for its The majority of
Capitol College’s
efforts to recruit undergraduate popula-
tion is composed of
underserved student minority students, and
the College is recog-
populations to the nized for its efforts to
recruit underserved
fields of computer student populations to
the fields of computer
science and science and engineer-
ing. The College will be better heating, and cooling capabilities to
engineering. poised to meet statewide demand for accommodate a new generation of
information assurance through this electronic processing equipment.
combined renovation and construc-
tion project. The teaching, labora- “These facilities are needed to
tory, and conferencing facilities must support what Maryland needs now
be upgraded and and for the long term,” says Capitol
expanded to meet President Michael Wood. “Now,
the growing our country is growing ever more
demand for vulnerable to cyber attack, and
professionals in Capitol College is one of the flagship
these areas. institutions recognized by the Na-
Current facilities tional Security Agency and Depart-
need to be ment of Homeland Security as a
upgraded to National Center of Academic
modernize the Excellence in Information Assurance
learning space for Education. Additional and new kinds
greater numbers of space are needed to house tech-
of students in nologies and learning activities to
Capitol College’s Innovation and new major fields sustain and enhance that recognition
Leadership Institute of study. The facility also has to and to support a critical national
upgrade and improve current power, mission.”
SAVE THE DATE: February 12, 2009
Maryland Independent Higher Education Day
T
o celebrate the partnership gather for a morning briefing in the
between the State and its Historic Inns of Annapolis, Calvert
independent colleges and House and then visit with State
universities, MICUA will host the legislators and public officials in the
34th annual Maryland Independent Miller Senate and House Office
Higher Education Day on February Buildings. Later the students will
12, 2009. More than 150 MICUA reconvene for a luncheon.
students from across the State will
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 PAGE 7
Loyola Students Teach Biology to East Baltimore Youth
A
group of students from Loyola Col- is through service and educating others,” said
lege in Maryland recently began Jennifer Scrafford of the Loyola Biology depart-
teaching environmental biology to youth ment, who is teaching the environmental
at the Club at Collington Square, an academic biology class and has partnered previously with
and community arts-based after-school program organizations such as the Irvine Nature Center.
serving at-risk youth between the ages of five Fifteen of Scrafford’s 24 biology students have
and 14 in East Baltimore’s Collington Square signed up to teach about water quality, plant life,
neighborhood. The program’s goals are to and the function of ecosystems. The Collington
encourage youth to take an active role in the Square children will conduct field studies in
protection of the environment and become their neighborhood to better understand the
agents of change in their own communities. importance of biology to their own lives. Later
this fall, field trips to Loyola will give the
“One of the most rewarding ways my students students the opportunity to work in a real
can learn about and appreciate the environment laboratory.
Stevenson Offers Nursing Program Completely Online
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n its continuing effort to combat the nursing shortage
in Maryland and across the country, Stevenson
University (formerly Villa Julie College) now offers
an RN to BS nursing degree option completely online.
This new option allows working nurses to earn an
accredited bachelor’s degree at their own pace without
disrupting their personal and professional lives. Stevenson
is the first private institution in Maryland—and one of
only a handful of institutions nationwide—to offer an RN
to BS option online. The University will continue to
offer the RN to BS option onsite and via distance
learning through partnerships with seven area community
colleges, giving nurses many options to advance their
careers.
Johns Hopkins Links Brain Reseach, Teacher Education
J ohns Hopkins University recently
combined two of its strengths—brain
research and teacher education—to give
educators a better understanding of how young
State Department of Education.
“Linking brain research to education is
extremely valuable to our understanding of
minds work and to offer ways to enhance student development and learning,” said Mariale
learning. Hardiman, assistant dean of the Urban School
Partnerships at the School of Education, who
In September, the School of Education, School prior to joining Johns Hopkins was principal of
of Medicine, Brain Science Institute, and the Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in
affiliated Kennedy Krieger Institute presented an Baltimore City. “The Executive Function
Executive Function Seminar for teachers to Seminar is one of the first initiatives of its kind
discuss how the latest advances in brain research by a major university, and we feel the Neuro-
can affect teaching and student learning. The Education Initiative is on the cutting edge of
seminar was co-sponsored by the University’s bringing together the research with the
Office of Alumni Relations and the Maryland practice.”
PAGE 8 MICUA MATTERS
MICUA Institutions Collaborate to Launch Academic Job Bank
T
wenty leading higher education and
research institutions in the region—
including College of Notre Dame of
Maryland, Goucher College, Hood College,
Loyola College in Maryland, Maryland
Institute College of Art, and Stevenson
University (formerly Villa Julie College)—
recently launched the Mid-Atlantic Higher
Education Recruitment Consortium (Mid-Atlantic
HERC). Similar partnerships have been established in ten other regions of the country, all of which
are part of the national HERC network. The purpose of the program is to develop and promote a
collaborative employment network for faculty, administrative, and staff positions at member
institutions and share best practices for addressing recruitment and retention issues.
The Mid-Atlantic HERC is headquartered at Loyola College, which is sharing the leadership of the
project with the University of Richmond, Washington and Lee University, and the National
Institutes of Health. As a first step, the Mid-Atlantic HERC has produced a comprehensive and
electronically accessible job bank (www.midatlanticherc.org) featuring faculty, staff, and administra-
tive postings at institutions in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The centrality of the job
postings and regional resources, as well as the site’s ability to accommodate dual-career searches,
distinguishes the Mid-Atlantic HERC from other employment websites.
Sojourner-Douglass Partners with Baltimore for Workforce Program
T
he first year of the Sojourner-Douglass College Phoenix Project—a customized training
program providing job training, job placement, and job retention support for residents of the
Park Heights community in Baltimore—ended successfully with 101 individuals placed in
jobs, exceeding program goals. Sojourner-Douglass was awarded $650,000 in grant funding for the
project in 2007, in a partnership between the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, the
Department of Housing and Community Development, the Park Heights Community Development
Association, and the Workforce Center at
Sojourner-Douglass College’s Division of
Professional and Continuing Studies.
Based on projected growth in the healthcare
industry, three training programs were
implemented for students trained as certified
nursing assistants, medication technicians, and
environmental technicians. Governor Martin
O’Malley has praised the program, saying
“your work in bringing together leaders in
government, our institutions of higher
education, and the businesses and families that
make up our neighborhoods is an example of
what can be accomplished when we come
The Certified Nursing Assistant graduating class of 2008 together and choose that better, brighter
future that we all prefer.”
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 PAGE 9
Capitol Signs Agreement with Prince George’s Community College
J uly 2, 2008, marked an important date for Prince George's Community College (PGCC)
students studying for an associate’s degree in applied science in information security (AASIS), as
executives and faculty from both Capitol College and PGCC signed an agreement for the
articulation of PGCC's AASIS degree to the bachelor of science in information assurance degree at
Capitol.
Under the new agreement, students will be
able to painlessly transfer class credits earned
for the AASIS degree toward a higher degree
in information assurance at Capitol. This
agreement means that Capitol College has
once again reached out into the local com-
munity to encourage students to continue
their education.
“It is our goal at Capitol College to become
an educational provider of choice for the
community college graduates in Prince
George’s and the surrounding counties,” says
Ken Crockett, Capitol’s Interim Dean of
Information and Business Management. “By
developing formal articulation agreements, Capitol College is proactively providing those students
with opportunities to consider higher degree programs in the information assurance industry.”
MICUA Offers Incident Command Training for Emergency Responders
M
ICUA hosted a workshop on Incident university campus. With brain-storming sessions
Management Strategies for Colleges and practical exercises, training topics covered
and Universities in collaboration with communications, information management,
the Johns Hopkins University Center for Public supporting technology, and the roles of regular
Health Preparedness on October 23, 2008. college and university staff during an ICS
Developed in response to interest from the emergency.
higher education community, the workshop
built on the Emergency Preparedness Summit The workshop attracted a broad audience of
which MICUA offered in January 2008. The college and university “first responders”—those
day-long event delved into the National Inci- who have an important emergency response role
dent Management System (NIMS) with a and would likely be first on the scene of an
particular focus on the Incident Command incident on campus, including administrators,
System (ICS). campus police, media specialists, financial
officers, and others. In addition to representa-
NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template tives of Maryland’s independent colleges, leaders
to enable all government, private-sector, and of Maryland’s public universities, Maryland’s
non-governmental organizations to work community colleges, the Maryland Higher
together during emergencies. The agenda Education Commission, and several Washing-
included a full-day training workshop focused ton, D.C. institutions were invited to attend free
on implementing the ICS on a college or of cost.
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ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401
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VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 FALL 2008
MICUA
Maryland Independent College
and University Association
Baltimore Hebrew University
Baltimore International College Goucher Partners With Zipcar
G
Capitol College
oucher College has launched a new partnership with Zipcar, a cost-
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
efficient, environmentally friendly car-sharing program. Goucher
Columbia Union College students who are older than 18 and have a valid driver’s license—as
Goucher College well as the College’s faculty and staff—will have 24/7 self-service access to two
Hood College Honda Civic Hybrids that are located in a campus parking lot. Participants
Johns Hopkins University apply for Zipcar membership online, and the $35 application fee counts as a
Loyola College in Maryland credit. The hourly rate is just $7, or $60 for a full day, and includes gas,
Maryland Institute College of Art maintenance, insurance, reserved
McDaniel College parking on campus, and roadside
Mount St. Mary’s University
assistance.
Ner Israel Rabbinical College
Goucher’s partnership with Zipcar
St. John’s College
marks another important stride the
St. Mary’s Seminary & University College is making to ensure that
Sojourner-Douglass College environmental sustainability and
Stevenson University stewardship are a priority on
Washington College campus. This alternative transporta-
tion initiative complements the
MICUA Matters is published by the college’s extensive recycling,
Maryland Independent College and composting, sustainable food
University Association. For
service, and energy conservation
questions or comments, please
contact MICUA Communications programs.
Director Beth Mayer at 410-269-0306
or bmayer@micua.org.
