Meyerhoff Scholarship Program

The Meyerhoff Scholarship Program was founded at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1988 with a grant from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Foundation, under the guidance of future UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III. It is focused on minority scholarship and awareness in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The program has served as a model for fostering scholarship in the African American community.

History

Female students of African American descent were admitted to the program as of its second year, and the program was opened up as a general scholarship with an emphasis on minority interests in 1997. This was widely viewed as preemptive action in response to the outcome of protracted litigation levied at the Benjamin Banneker Scholarship Program, the first scholarship of its kind to be ruled unconstitutional[1] (though the University of Maryland, College Park did publicly contest the issue vigorously for years).

Publications and Media Coverage

Overcoming the Odds

Two books chronicle the experiences and results of those affiliated with the program in its formative years. The first was written in the late 1990s with an emphasis on African American males with its companion volume on African American females published in the early 2000s.

In the Press

Education Research

The Meyerhoff Scholarship Program is noted for its success in increasing the representation of minority students in STEM.[2] In an attempt to determine whether this model can be replicated at large universities, two scholarships were founded at other universities in 2013: the Chancellor's Science Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Millennium Scholars Program at Pennsylvania State University.[3][4]

References
  1. http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/24/421d6eee26596
  2. Kenneth Maton, Shauna Pollard, Tatiana McDougall Weise, Freeman Hrabowski III (2012). "Meyerhoff Scholars Program: A Strengths-Based, Institution-Wide Approach to Increasing Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics". The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York. Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine. 79 (5): 610–623. doi:10.1002/msj.21341. PMC 3444508. PMID 22976367.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Chancellor's Science Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". Association of American Universities.
  4. "Three Universities Unite to Replicate and Spread Successful STEM Program". Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.