Engaged Scholarship

In an effort to promote scholarly engagement, The Shriver Center is poised to support your work and research here at UMBC. We are dedicated to providing students with quality experiences that will bring focus to their studies and challenge their mind and spirit. We know how important your classroom teaching and research is to the development of all students, and we believe our work with students will better complement that process.

Retention Data
UMBC data reveals that first-time, full-time freshmen engaging in an applied learning experiences are more often retained and graduate at a significantly higher rate than students who do not. The Shriver Center has a proven track record of successfully engaging students in applied learning and is poised to assist in making this valuable student success strategy available to all UMBC students.

Shriver Center students:

• Are retained at a rate of 88.7% (in 2002) from their 2nd to 3rd year versus 70.2% of non-Shriver Center students.
• Graduate at a rate almost double that of their peers who did not engage through the Center (6-year graduation rate of 83.7% in 1998 versus 45.7% for non-Shriver Center students) (OIR, 2005)

Learn about what we are doing at the Center and work with us to generate new initiatives that will foster increased collaboration.