EFFORTS in support of the Foundation’s mandate to add to the intellectual life of the USM as a whole were not restricted to Chautauquas.

The USM Foundation provides critical material and administrative support to both the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the Journalism Center on Children and Families, both of which are affiliated with the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Knight Center is a premier national program with a 20-year track record of offering free top-quality seminars for print, broadcast and online reporters, editors and editorial writers, focusing on law, health, science, society, and demographics, as well as national and international affairs. The Journalism Center on Children and Families inspires and recognizes exemplary reporting on children and families. Since the Journalism Center was founded in 1993, thousands of print, online and broadcast journalists have attended its intensive training seminars and relied on it for balanced information and resources. The Center also recognizes the best of child/family reporting in its annual Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism contest.

At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the USM Foundation plays an active part in supporting the Center for Aging Studies, the research hub for UMBC’s Erickson School on Aging, Management, and Policy. The Center harnesses the ability to both teach and learn by performing research and demonstration projects. This hands-on approach encourages the development of not only students, but also full-time researchers and faculty at all career levels.

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