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Another high-profile golf industry partner has stepped forward to support the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s hospitality and tourism management program. Troon, a leading international golf course and resort management company, announced a Black History Month initiative to help underrepresented hospitality and professional golf management majors defray college expenses. The Troon Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…Read more Troon makes the day for the maroon & gray

George E. Miles, a proud 1960 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, understood the value of higher education. Now, his legacy will live on through students on the lower Eastern Shore, thanks to recent gifts from his estate to local colleges and universities, including approximately $3.3 million each to the University of…Read more Late NASA engineer bequeaths $3.3 million to UMES

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