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UMBC-BCPS STEM is a Comprehensive MSP funded by NSF in 2005 as a three year project.
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The UMBC-BCPS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)Project is a partnership between the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)and Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). The project focuses on closing the achievement gap in STEM areas for students in high poverty schools. Located in the suburban region around Baltimore, BCPS has an enrollment of 107,386 (2005-2006)school year. UMBC is located near Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Washington, D.C. It offers 37 majors and 32 minors or certificate programs, enrolling 11,650 full-time and part-time students (Fall 2004 enrollment). The County population is rapidly shifting in ethno-racial characteristics such that the most recent census indicates that White residents in the county have decreased from 84.9% in 1990 to 74.4% in 2000. Within BCPS, 33.7% of the students are African American, 59.7% are White, 4.0% are Asian American, and 2.0% are Hispanic.
The Principal Investigator of UMBC-BCPS STEM Project is Anne Spence.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.umbc.edu/ stem.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the STEM Project
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
UMBC-BCPS STEM Project project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
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