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Jay A. Perman, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore. In 1989, the office of the President was re-established following the re-organization of the public schools of Maryland under the new University System of Maryland. William Kirwan (1989 – 1998) Gregory L. Geoffroy (acting, 1998) C. Daniel Mote Jr. (1998 – 2010)
Darryll John Pines is an American aerospace engineer and academic administrator currently serving as president of University of Maryland, College Park. He was previously dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and held the Glenn L. Martin professorship of aerospace engineering.
A bursar (derived from bursa, Latin for 'purse') is a professional administrator in a school or university often with a predominantly financial role. In the United States , bursars usually hold office only at the level of higher education (two-year and four-year colleges and universities) or at private secondary schools.
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. UMD is the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area.
The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Maryland.The system is composed of the eleven campuses at College Park, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Princess Anne, Towson, Salisbury, Bowie, Frostburg, Hagerstown, Rockville, Cambridge, and Adelphi, along with four regional higher education centers located throughout the state.
On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a slaveowner, descendant of the Barons Baltimore, fervent believer in agricultural education, and a future U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Plantation in College Park for $21,000.
Morrill Hall is the oldest continuously-used academic building on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.Built in 1898 in the Second Empire architectural style for $24,000, [2] it was the sole academic building left untouched by The Great Fire of 1912 which devastated almost all of campus.
The headquarters for UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland near the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Until late 2000, the UMGC headquarters was listed in College Park, Maryland. In an attempt to establish its own identity as an independent university, UMGC changed its postal address to Adelphi, an unincorporated community that ...