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.
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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 (though the University of Maryland, College Park did publicly contest the issue vigorously for years).
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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.
- Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women (2001), Freeman A. Hrabowski, Geoffrey L. Greif, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene, Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Beating the Odds : Raising Academically Successful African American Males (1998), Freeman A. Hrabowski, Geoffrey L. Greif, Kenneth I. Maton, Publisher: Oxford University Press
In the Press
- Editorial: Why American College Students Hate Science (The New York Times, May 25, 2006)
- Paper: Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science 31 March 2006)
- Article: Fulfilling the Expectations of Excellence (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005)
- Article: Bound by generosity (The Baltimore Sun, November 2, 2005)
- Article: It's Cool to be Smart (Fast Company, 2002)
Education Research
The Meyerhoff Scholarship Program is noted for its success in increasing the representation of minority students in STEM. 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.
References
External links
- Official site
- The Meyerhoff 20th Anniversary Research Symposium+Celebration website
- Results: Meyerhoff Alumni graduate degrees earned
- Chancellor's Science Scholarship
- Millennium Scholars Program
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