Maryland's Public System of Higher Education

The USM in 2010: 

Responding to the Challenges that Lie Ahead

RB.21 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) comprises six professional schools and an interdisciplinary graduate school that educate students, conduct research, and provide clinical services in dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is the State's public academic health and law university devoted to professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service. Using state-of-the-art technological support, UMB educates leaders in health care delivery, biomedical science, social services and law. By conducting internationally recognized research to cure disease and to improve the health, social functioning and just treatment of the people we serve, the campus fosters economic development in the State. UMB is committed to ensuring that the knowledge it generates provides maximum benefit to society, directly enhancing the community.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is recognized as one of the preeminent public research universities in the nation. It educates students who will become leaders in their chosen profession; its faculty conduct research that is internationally recognized for its quality; and it provides clinical care and professional services that are of maximum benefit to the communities it serves.

Goal 1: Continue to evolve and maintain competitive edge as a center of excellence in the life and health sciences, law, and social work.

Objective 1.1 By fiscal year 2004, enhance the quality and preeminence of professional and graduate programs as indicated by increasing the number of programs ranked nationally in the top 10.

Objective 1.2 By fiscal year 2004, enhance the responsiveness of professional and graduate programs to the needs of employers by 10%, increasing employer satisfaction to a value of 1.49 from 1.65 in 1999, on a scale 1-5, where 1 equals "extremely satisfied."

Objective 1.3 By fiscal year 2004, increase scholarly productivity by at least 15%, increasing refereed publications per full-time faculty member to 2.7 from 2.3 in 1999.

Objective 1.4 By fiscal year 2004, significantly improve information management systems and management tools to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of university operations.

Goal 2: Conduct recognized research and scholarship in the life and health sciences, law and social work that fosters social and economic development.

Objective 2.1 By fiscal year 2004, increase the dollar amount of grants and contracts by at least 25%, to $254.9 million from $203.9 million in 2000.

Objective 2.2 By fiscal year 2004, enhance the production and protection of intellectual property and the transfer of university technologies, increasing the number of licenses by 25% to 9 per year from 7 in 1999.

Objective 2.3 By fiscal year 2004, increase the external funding obtained for clinical trials by 30%, to $30.9 million from $23.8 million in 1999, thereby providing Marylanders with greater access to the newest available treatments.

Goal 3: Demonstrate responsiveness to the State's critical need for health and human services professionals by increasing access to professional careers.

Objective 3.1 By fiscal year 2004, increase the number of graduates in health and human services professions in areas of State need (currently nursing and pharmacy) by 10%, to 1122 from 1021 in 1999.

Objective 3.2 By fiscal year 2004, enhance student access to courses and programs by increasing enrollments in off-campus and computer-based courses by 30%, to 745 from 573 in 1999.

Goal 4: Increase fundraising to deliver programs more effectively and encourage entrepreneurial activities to foster economic development in the State.

Objective 4.1 By fiscal year 2003, exceed campaign goal of $173 million by 30%, or $53 million.

Objective 4.2 By fiscal year 2004, license at least three additional technologies to Maryland-based companies and establish two new Maryland companies based on university technologies.

Goal 5: Provide public service to citizens in all sectors and geographic regions of Maryland.

Objective 5.1 By fiscal year 2004, ensure that the high average number of days that faculty spend in public service with Maryland's governments, businesses, schools, and communities is maintained at least at the 1999 level of 9.8 days per full-time faculty member.

Objective 5.2 By fiscal year 2004, establish at least 20 high-speed telecommunications network sites to enhance access to diagnostic and clinical follow-up services to undeserved populations in Maryland, from 7 in 1999.