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JCG posted:
Nice piece on UMBC academics:
Cinderella Story? It’s True for U.M.B.C. in Academics, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...umbc-basketball.html

Yeah, the school's president, who is a legitimately inspirational guy and the opposite of a stuffed-shirt school administrator, has deliberately chosen to focus on undergraduate teaching of STEM subjects. Lots of first generation college students and middle class kids find it a place they can thrive and get a marketable degree. High proportion of minorities excelling in hard fields. It's a campus with a lot of strivers and not much sense of entitlement. Lots of on-campus tech and government recruiting from agencies and companies all along the DC-Baltimore corridor.

Fairly dominant chess team, too.

3/17/186:22 PM

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