BNoted – The University of Baltimore Magazine 2022

With Honors

Posted on November 30, 2024December 4, 2024 by cmsadmin in BNoted

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Three UBalt alums named to 2024 cohort with other influential leaders

BY JOCELYN T. SLAUGHTER

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously stated, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’’’ Nonprofit leaders lean into this question with their purposeful work in their communities by seeking to provide transformative societal change even while they metamorphosize as individuals.

Three University of Baltimore alumni—Tonaeya Moore M.P.A. ’20; Loren Nelson, B.A. ’21, M.S. ’24; and Derrick Whiting, B.A. ’23 were recently recognized by The Baltimore Banner for having answered Dr. King’s question. Each was honored as one of the local news outlet’s 2024 Emerging Leaders during a ceremony in May.

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Tackling Chronic Absenteeism One Layer at a Time

Posted on November 30, 2024December 1, 2024 by cmsadmin in BNoted

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BY MADDIE WELLS

In 2005, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Barbara A. Babb and Senior Fellow Gloria H. Danziger saw the need for a different approach to chronic absenteeism among Baltimore City Public School students. Foregoing traditional punitive methods to treat students’ absences, they created what is now called the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Project (TCAP)—formerly the Truancy Court Program, or TCP—to understand and treat underlying issues, foster long term academic success and strengthen ties between schools and the community.

As the TCAP team likes to say, addressing chronic absenteeism is like “peeling an onion.” A student’s low attendance rate is often just the first layer—a sign that children and their families are struggling with problems like bullying, an undiagnosed learning impairment, food insecurity, illness or substance use in the family, the loss of a parent or caregiver, housing instability or neighborhood violence.

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Service Learning Fellowship

Posted on November 30, 2024December 4, 2024 by cmsadmin in BNoted

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Service learning has long played a role in UBalt’s unique approach to experiential learning

BY JESSICA SILLERS (NEÉ JONAS), M.F.A. ’13

This spring, a new Service Learning Fellowship launched, allowing faculty and students to make an even bigger impact outside the classroom. Funded by the University System of Maryland, the program provides faculty with stipends to deepen community engagement through their coursework.

The fellowship’s inaugural semester featured four classes across multiple disciplines, in which students logged at least 15 hours of service work with a community partner through collaborative projects. They also completed “significant and structured reflection” that tied their classroom learning to their service experience.

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Prioritizing Prevention

Posted on November 30, 2024December 4, 2024 by cmsadmin in BNoted

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Addressing the ever-changing nature of drug threats to communities

BY ANNA RUSSELL

In 2016, the chief of staff of the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, Jeff Beeson, presented Roger Hartley, dean of The University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs, with a partnership idea that would benefit both institutions.

The regional HIDTA—established 30 years ago under the National Drug Control Policy—was searching for a new fiduciary body to provide oversight of its grant program, which provides funding and resources to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies (LEAs) with the goal of reducing drug trafficking and production.

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