Celebrating impactful community engagement
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Each year, we celebrate partnerships central to TU’s identity as a community-engaged institution. This year, on November 8, BTU honored three partnerships, which were selected based on their impact, outcome assessment and how they exemplify best practices and problem solving to address community needs.
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Baltimore Immigration Summit
This summit brings together academics, policymakers, service providers, activists, community leaders, and others working with and for New Americans (immigrants and refugees) to learn about and celebrate these communities.
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BLinG-Health
This peer-led, school-based physical intervention program fosters inclusivity while providing Black adolescent girls with physical activity opportunities and empowering them to make decisions to maintain healthy lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases.
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Impact TU
500+ students engage with community partners to foster social change while developing sustainable communities and engaging in hands-on projects focused on environmental sustainability, economic security, social well-being, and civic engagement.
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Level up your leadership.
Build strong teams.
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The Dr. Nancy Grasmick Leadership Institute offers a robust portfolio of values-driven offerings for individuals at any level in their careers and organizations from across all industries. Programs not only equip participants to be better leaders, they also have a profound and far-reaching impact on their teams, organizations, communities and the local economy.
Emerging Leaders Workshop, February 4–5
“As soon as the Emerging Leaders Workshop became available, I jumped right on board. My top takeaway is having many more tools in my toolbox that I can utilize to be more active in my thinking and my behaviors in the workplace.”
Critical Conversations Workshop, March 18–19
“The key takeaways are the tools that we were able to provide our executive team and managers to handle different situations more effectively.”
Cultivating a Vibrant & Winning Culture Workshop, April 1
“I was able to learn about the experiences of other organizations in regards to work culture and also took away practical strategies I can directly apply within my own unit to maximize the work experience for my unit.”
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Earn a certification.
Advance your career.
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Save 20% on these upcoming instructor-led courses
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TAKE COURSES WITH OSHER THIS WINTER
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Towson University is offering online courses this winter, beginning in January. Learn from subject matter experts alongside Osher members from across the country.
- First Class: A History of the Post Office in the United States
- Buddhist Philosophy, Meditation, and Ritual: In India and Beyond
- Reclaiming Native Ground: Native America Since 1900
- Storytelling and Self
- The Next Generation’s Legacy of the Holocaust
- Huck Finn’s America
- Color and Symbolism in Art History
- Modern War: What Is It Good For?
- The Secret Life of Familiar Birds
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WHAT'S DRIVING OUR ECONOMY?
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Economic Outlook Forum recap
From easing inflation rates and rising gross domestic product to a housing shortage and lower unemployment rates, it’s been a year of economic highs and lows.
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Eye on the Economy
The most recent jobs report showed that in October, Maryland lost 9,000 Total Nonfarm jobs, while the unemployment rate increased to 3.0 percent.
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Mapping Maryland's election results
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The Towson University Center for GIS has developed maps that break down Maryland’s 2024 election results data by county, including the President and Senate contests, voter turnout, and the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.
EXPLORE THE MAPS
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CATCHING UP WITH THE STARTUP
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Study Wise prototype wins first TU Maker Fest competition
Student teams gathered for TU’s first annual Maker Fest––a 24-hour sprint to create a product prototype to solve student issues. Study Wise, a studying and task management system, won first place and a spot as a finalist in the College Cup.
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Networking, community and hard work: How to thrive as a woman in GovCon contracting
Panelists at a recent ATHENAPowerLink® Baltimore event shared their experiences as women leaders in the male-prominent government contracting industry.
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Real estate mogul, philanthropist shares secrets to be a successful entrepreneur
Dana Frank recently took to the stage at the StarTUp at the Armory for a conversation with Edna Primrose about what it means to be a multi-faceted entrepreneur.
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