Facts
Through the work of The Shriver Center, UMBC has become a national leader in promoting service-learning, civic engagement and community-based service delivery. The Shriver Center enables students to link academic study to professional practice and community service, and is UMBC's primary vehicle for producing socially engaged citizens who graduate with the commitment and experience to serve responsibly in their communities, the State and the Nation. The Shriver Center also develops programs designed to strengthen communities and build local capacity to deal with pressing problems of the day.
In FY'08 Shriver Center programs will be located in 10 field offices across Maryland, and in replication sites in 3 cities. The Center has a combined staff of nearly 100. During FY '07, The Shriver Center attracted over $ 5 million in grants and contracts from national and local agencies and foundations, including the Maryland State Department of Juvenile Services, Maryland Governor's Office, Maryland Department of Transportation, Baltimore County Government, and the National Science, France & Merrick, Marguerite Casey, and Macht Foundations.
Described as "the prototype for urban education in the 21st century," The Shriver Center was recognized in 2000 by the Templeton Foundation for its "strong commitment to character development and the strengths of its programs."
TIMELINE - download graphical version (PDF)
1975
Office of Cooperative Education was created at UMBC
1987
Internship Program initiated
Office of Cooperative Education renamed Office of Professional Practice
Governor William Schaffer provides funding to coordinate the Governor’s Summer Internship Program as a state-wide initiative
1989
Choice Program starts at UMBC
1990
Community Service & Learning (later renamed service-learning) initiated with funding from the Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education
Office of Professional Practice was renamed to the Center for Learning Through Work and Service
DECEMBER 14, 1993
The Shriver Center was created in honor of the life’s work of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and R. Sargent Shriver
Established simultaneously with the Center and sharing its mission and vision was The Shriver Center Higher Education Consortium
The Choice Middle Schools Program and Choice Jobs began operations
1994
The Shriver Peaceworker Program is transferred from Georgetown to UMBC
Learn and Serve America grant (from Corporation for National Service) begins as a consortium-wide initiative focused on service-learning infrastructure and capacity building and faculty course development in service-learning
1995
CLEARCorps Program begins operation to reduce lead hazard in the community
1997
Police Corps begins to train officers in community policing
Peaceworker program admitted to the Peace Corps Fellows Network
2000
Choice Middle Schools Program receives Crystal Star Award for Excellence from the National Dropout Prevention Network
The Shriver Living Learning Community is initiated in partnership with the Office of Residential Life
Center receives funding from Maryland Department of Transportation for MDOT Fellows Summer Internship Program
2001
Center receives funding from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to secure a College Preparation Intervention Program/GEAR UP initiative
2002
NSF funds Teaching Enhancement Partnership Project collaboration with the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Engineering, and 5 Middle Schools
The Kauffman Foundation provides grant to initiate Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program in partnership with Alex.Brown Center for entrepreneurship in Science and Technology
Annie E. Casey Foundation provides grant to develop and host a seminar series on pressing social issues
2003
Shriver Peaceworker Program survey of alumni reveals that 90% of program graduates are currently employed full-time, 100% in careers in public service, and of those enrolled in the program, 81% came from outside the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area, but 74% have remained to live and work in this area
Choice replicates in Syracuse, New York
New director named for Shriver Peaceworker Program
2004
CLEARCorps USA becomes independent not-for-profit organization
USM names Shriver Center as UMBC partner on $7 million National Science Foundation-funded Vertically Integrated Partnerships (VIP) K-16 program, a partnership of USM, Montgomery College, and Montgomery County Public Schools
Choice recognized by Department of Juvenile Services in its GAP Analysis as “Model Diversion Programming in Maryland;” by Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention in its Model Program Guide as an effective, research-based model program; and, by the Advocates for Children & Youth in its “Parent Voices” publication
2005
Data from UMBC’s Office of Institutional Research offers empirical evidence that graduate and undergraduate students’ engagement in internships and service-learning is positively related to their ability to be retained as students at UMBC, to graduate in less time, and to become better integrated socially and academically within the campus community
2006
UMBCworks is launched to provide a campus-wide collaborative use of software to streamline the process of applied learning and job placement for students, campus departments, and community/corporate partners
Academic Exchange Quarterly publishes “Service-Learning & College Student Success,” a collaborative article of the Shriver Center and UMBC’s Office of Institutional Research which offers evidence of the benefit of service-learning to overall student success
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