On Christmas Eve, Tegwa Fadl Alla sent an e-mail to Salisbury TV station WBOC, which annually coordinates the local Jefferson Award program that recognizes the community’s unheralded altruists. The Arabic teacher nominated fellow educator Muna Elobaid, drawing attention to Elobaid’s work in assisting Sudanese immigrants’ assimilation into life in America. “As a migrant community,” Fadl…Read more UMES technology trainer is Jefferson Award winner
The 2022 spring semester will be Dr. Derry Stufft’s swansong as founding director of UMES’ doctoral program in education leadership. Stufft, who turned 73 this past December, is retiring from full-time work after a 52-year career in education spanning the spectrum from kindergarten to graduate school. He will continue as a dissertation adviser to current…Read more A half-century of ‘paying it forward’
UMES honors students in Dr. Amy Hagenrater-Gooding’s freshman English course are writing essays inspired by a year-long, university-wide reading initiative using Ross Gay’s Book of Delights and focusing on delights of their own. I walked outside one day this past summer to a sky that was baby blue painted with wispy clouds. There was a…Read more ‘Everybody ~ have you heard’
Jamahl Strachan went to Washington in the summer of 2008 to work as an intern on Capitol Hill, where as a 20-year-old rising senior at UMES he landed a coveted assignment in the office of the junior senator from Illinois. That fall, the latter became the first Black man elected President of the United States….Read more Forward. Upward. Onward. Together.
Two University of Maryland Eastern Shore history professors are assisting Delaware State University colleagues in crafting recommendations to expand how U.S. history is taught in “First State” public schools. Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson Jr., dean of UMES’ School of Education, Social Sciences and the Arts, and Dr. Arlisha R. Norwood are among 10 educators working…Read more Revisiting how history is taught
University of Maryland Eastern Shore seniors who endured a revised, recalibrated and rebranded undergraduate experience under the pall of a persistent global pandemic completed that arduous journey today with a time-honored rite of passage – commencement. A limited number of tickets were distributed, those who entered the Hytche Athletic Center had to confirm they were…Read more UMES celebrates a rare double commencement
Commencements are joyous for newly minted alumni, especially those who conquer challenges and add to the legacy of perseverance the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has come to represent. It might be tough, in UMES’ winter class of 2021, to top the story of Julia de Huarte’s inspiring journey to earning a college degree. De…Read more Making music a pathway to success
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is UMES’ common reader for the 2021-22 academic year. These essays are inspired by Gay’s observation: “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study.” That might sound like a nightmare to a student – MORE to study – but with “delights,” the exponential joy, the…Read more Delight essays
Dr. Pamela L. Allison has been named the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Allison moves from department chair of UMES’ hospitality and tourism management program into her new job Jan. 3. She joined the university faculty in July 2020. “With an extensive background in business creation, development…Read more Endowed Entrepreneurship & Innovation chair named
Four UMES seniors who took an experimental English course this fall earned honorariums for essays they wrote for a routine class assignment after watching the 2021 documentary “Summer of Soul.” Kaila Vaughn was awarded a $400 prize from the Essex County (N.J.) Chapter of The Links Inc., which sponsored “HBCU: The Black Film Experience,” a…Read more UMES seniors recognized for their work as essayists
