CUMU's coming

Nearly 270 high-level administrators and faculty experts from urban and metropolitan universities will gather in Baltimore later this month to listen, learn and share ideas. [more]

5 questions for ... Meghan Culbertson

She may be new to TU, but Meghan Culbertson understands why it’s critically important to continue TU’s proud tradition of faculty/staff giving. [more]

So they said....

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Harry Belafonte, 1927-

Where teaching meets technology

Event to showcase TU's teaching, technology resources

What? Technology Showcase/ Soiree, featuring: demonstrations, some vendors, refreshments and prizes. Learn more about an array of resources available through OTS and Cook Library while schmoozing with President Caret, Acting Provost Clements and your peers.

When? Wednesday, October 17, 2 to 4:30 p.m.

Where? Cook Library, room 404B

How? R.S.V.P. to technologyshowcase@towson.edu

TU in the news

Film professor works to bring stadium, city to screen

York Daily Record, October 1

Reporter Angie Mason spoke to Brian Plow, Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies, about his documentary, which focuses on York's plan to build a baseball stadium as a catalyst for urban development. Plow said he has 60 to 70 hours of footage, is still gathering information, and hopes his work will be finished in January.

Interview

Media Tracks, September 30–October 6

Omar Ali, Department of History, spoke about the aftermath of the American Civil War for this nationally syndicated radio program. Ali said that sharecropping, a form of exploited labor, persisted long after the war as former slaves were shackled to the land through indebtedness. He said Americans of all backgrounds continue to grapple with the legacy of racialized slavery.

Towson interns teach, learn

The Sun, October 1

Gina Davis interviewed principal Gerry DePetris (a TU alumna), TU student-teacher Christine Coppage and Ocie Watson-Thompson, Department of Early Childhood Education, for a story about the county's newest early childhood education center at Hawthorne Elementary School. "It's no longer simulation teaching," said Watson-Thompson. "They're actually in there teaching."