LeaderNotes - December, 2011

President’s Message

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On December 5, Chancellor Brit Kirwan and UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski were invited as a part of a group of 12 university presidents to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama and US Education Secret...

Investment Performance through 10/31/2011

      Endowment % S&P 500 % Composite Benchmark %   80/20 %   60/40 % Latest Month 2.3% 10.9% 5.5% 8.8% 6.6% FYTD 2012 -2.9% -4.5% -4.4% -2.5% ...

Campaign Progress

Institution Announced Goal 10/31/2011 Bowie 11/08 $15M   $9.2M Coppin 10/07 $15M $7.3M Frostburg 10/08 $15M $17.2M Salisbury 6/06 $35M $38.3M ...

Trends in Philanthropy - CASE Update

Charitable Deduction Still in Discussion Despite Super Committee's Inability to Reach Agreement On Nov. 21, the co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the "super committee," announced that the committee was una...

UMB Receives Large Gifts in Support of Medical Res...

The University of Maryland recently received two substantial gifts from private foundations to further its work in medicine. This fall, UMB's Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM) received a $7.5 million pledge from an anonymous foundation. ...

$1 Million Gift Announced for Richard A. Henson

Salisbury University officially opened its new Richard A. Henson Medical Simulation Center during a festive ribbon-cutting on December 1. The ceremony was marked by the announcement of a $1 million gift for the center from the Richard A. Henson Found...

University of Baltimore School of Law Receives $50...

Regional Banking Executive Bruce Hammonds Donates Funds to Expand Program In 2000, Bruce Hammonds committed $500,000 to establish the Hammonds Scholar Program at the UB Merrick School of Business. This fall, Mr. Hammonds pledged another $500,...

Carnegie Corporation Honors UMBC President Freeman...

Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), along with Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, have been awarded the foundation's Centenn...

USM News Briefs

Irwin L. "Irv" Goldstein, USM senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, will leave his position on June 30, 2012. A tenured faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, Goldstein will work on special projects for the USM office and ...

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