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Bel Air, Md. (Map, News) - Towson University might establish a satellite campus at Harford Community College.
That plan would benefit both schools and their students, officials said. About 2,000 Towson students have permanent addresses in Harford County, and 25 percent of the community college’s graduates transfer to Towson to finish their last two years.
“More of my students go to Towson than any other school,” said James LaCalle, president of Harford Community College.
During a meeting with Towson President Robert Caret in February, LaCalle suggested the idea of a Towson building on the west side of HCC’s campus.
“It was just an idea I was entertaining, but he was very interested in it, and the more and more people I have discussed it with, the more positive feedback I have received,” LaCalle said.
LaCalle speculated that a Towson extension at Harford could be built within three years if all went well. Though LaCalle said the cost of such a project has not been discussed, it would likely be funded by having a builder construct the proposed 50,000- to 60,000-square-foot building, with Towson paying for the construction through rent — the same plan used by Harford County Public Schools to get its new administration building constructed, LaCalle said.
“We would be able to offer a full range of programs,” Caret said. He said this would allow HCC students to transfer to Towson and receive a degree without ever leaving Harford County.
“It certainly will help alleviate the traffic jam on Interstates 95 and 695 in the mornings,” said Bel Air resident Robert Parrott, 52, who recently graduated from Harford and will attend Towson in the fall.
“It would save me a lot of money in gas,” said Candis Butler, 20, of Belcamp. Butler is graduating from HCC and will commute to Towson in the fall.
Aberdeen resident Mark Schlottman, 48, who followed the same path a generation ago, said he would have taken advantage of a Towson satellite if one existed when he went to college.
“I could have stayed at home and worked more,” said Schlottman, a hardware sales representative who paid for his own education.
“The one disadvantage that I can see, though, is that you don’t get the full flavor of university life,” he said.
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Answer: Mudd, Mikulsi, and O'Malley. Question: Name three rteasons not to attend the U of Md.
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Julie Evans, University of Maryland, Baltimore said:
In your facts about UMB, you left out the majority of the students (4,837) on campus which are in graduate and professional degree programs: Physicians 621 Pharmacists 480 Dentists 456 Social Workers 840 Lawyers 830 Nurses 788 Physical therapists 194 Other graduate (PhDs) 628
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Ori Shabazz said:
If not solved in primary or secondary, Black males (Black people) must settle the identity question during post secondary work. Black male and female students in Baltimore must be INSPIRED to learn through innovative means. Black male students have to be taught the very basics of education and SOCIAL skills.
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I believe the problem with low attendence of black males in college is a cultural issue not a fairness issue.
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You mean all it takes to get black males to go to college is have black professors? Wow, I wish it was that easy. There is a nation-wide trend for more women than men in post-high school education; right now the gap is about 55% women and 45% men and getting wider. How does the issue of the race require different tactics than simply being a male?
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As a retired teacher, I am happy to see black young men with a continued positive influence post- high school. I do hope that the program developes with enormous success and extend itself to young black adolences prior to exiting High School. We need to give them a little motivation during the middle school experience. If that is not an option, well, I guess those wilth the inner drive will continue graduating for some institude beyond High School will do so! But, statistics are evidence, the we are losing them before High School! Grades 6th - 8th have been the points of deciding whether to lead or to follow. Our black youth need you, as a group positive black role models to implement some incentives to motivate their self-esteem and ethnocentric pride! May God bless you in this endeavor that may enlighten others to join your cause that can make difference in our city and others!
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