Maryland's Public System of Higher Education

The USM in 2010: 

Responding to the Challenges that Lie Ahead

RB.25 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is an historically black institution offering a comprehensive array of undergraduate programs and selected graduate programs in education, agriculture, marine sciences and physical therapy.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is a growing, primarily residential university with a teaching, research and engagement mission consistent with its mandate as Maryland's 1890 Land-Grant institution. As the only doctoral and research institution on the Eastern Shore, it values the scholarship of faculty in the discovery of knowledge, developing, and disseminating new knowledge, and applying that knowledge to the extended community. The University recognizes that it is also responsible for providing access, developing human potential, enriching cultural expressions, and sharing its expertise with individuals, businesses, and educational and governmental agencies.

One of the original purposes of the land-grant institutions, the education of citizens for life in the American economy (then, largely agrarian, but now more diverse), includes the disciplines of agriculture, home economics, and mechanical arts. UMES continues to embrace the original purposes as well as their current expansions to include the liberal arts, scientific, business, technological, and professional programs. The University's expanding instructional technology infrastructure supports the increasing externally funded research grants generated by campus personnel to examine pertinent research questions.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore aspires to be a Doctoral/Research II Intensive institution (Carnegie Classification). The University will continue to provide student access to the range, and rigor of learning experiences associated with larger universities and to frequent, personalized contact with faculty and staff. This 1890 Land-Grant university community will continue to be accessible to all groups, especially those of disadvantaged backgrounds, because it believes in and implements its historic mandate that all deserve the same opportunity to participate in the higher education experience. The institution values and continues to seek mutually beneficial relationships with people of the State by expanding opportunities that contribute to their social, economic and intellectual well being.

Goal 1: Provide access to higher education for the citizens of the State, including underrepresented groups.

Objective 1.1. Increase the headcount enrollment from 3,206 in 1998 to 3,500 in 2004.

Objective 1.2. Increase the second-year retention rate from 76 percent in 1998 to 81 percent in 2004.

Objective 1.3. Increase the six-year graduation rate from 35 percent in 1998 to 43 percent in 2004.

Objective 1.4. Increase the percent of first generation students from 25 percent in 1998 to 35 percent in 2004.

Goal 2: Ensure that high quality undergraduate and graduate education is provided.

Objective 2.1. Increase the passing rate on the PRAXIS I (NTE before 2000) from 68 percent in 1998 to 100 percent in 2004.

Objective 2.2. Increase the graduate/professional school going rate from 39 percent in 1998 to 45 percent in 2004.

Objective 2.3. Increase the percent of students expressing satisfaction with job preparation from 88 percent in 1998 to 90 percent in 2004.

Objective 2.4. Increase the percent of students expressing satisfaction with graduate/professional school preparation from 89 percent in 1998 to 90 percent in 2004.

Goal 3: Enhance classroom instruction through the use of technology.

Objective 3.1. Increase the percent of the faculty involved in multimedia content development and web-based material as a portion of their classroom activities from 5 percent in 1998 to 55 percent in 2004.

Objective 3.2. Ensure that the percent of the applicable buildings, including dormitories, are adequately wired and connected to allow the effective and efficient use of the most advanced applications of technology is increased from 40 percent in 1998 to 90 percent in 2004.

Objective 3.3. Increase the percent of students indicating that the use of technology in their class work enhance their learning from XX in 1998 to 75 percent in 2004.

Goal 4: Identify and attract research funding sources and funds consistent with the mission and needs of the University.

Objective 4.1. Increase sponsored research grants and contracts from 10.4 million in 1998 to 13.2 million in 2004.

Objective 4.2. Increase the percent of faculty and staff involved in sponsored research grants and contracts from 20 percent in 1998 to 26 percent in 2004.

Goal 5: Respond to the educational, economic, cultural and social needs of the State.

Objective 5.1. Increase the number of graduates of teacher education from 14 in 1998 to 25 in 2004.

Objective 5.2. Increase the number of teacher education graduates working in the State of Maryland from 36 in 1998 to 50 in 2004.

Objective 5.3. Increase the percent of faculty involved in K-16 Partnership Programs from 15 percent in 1999 to 25 percent in 2004.

Objective 5.4. Increase the percent of graduates employed in Maryland from 45 percent in 1998 to 49 percent in 2004.

Objective 5.5. Increase the number of IT graduates employed in Maryland per year from 4 in 1998 to 12 in 2004.