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POINTS OF PRIDE

College of Business and Economics 

• CBE is the largest undergraduate business school in Maryland, with more than 3,000 undergraduate students.
  
  

• Towson University is the only institution in the University System of Maryland with an undergraduate degree in e-Business.
  
  
• CBE is the only University System of Maryland institution with AACSB International accreditation for its business administration and accounting programs.

• Towson University students were responsible for 82 of the 174 business plans submitted to the Greater Baltimore Technology Council's (GBTC) area "Mosh Pit" competition, a program sponsored by the Maryland Department of Economic Development to foster entrepreneurial activity in Maryland.

College of Education

• The College of Education is the oldest and largest producer of teachers in the state of Maryland.  Across the nation, more than 10,500 educators trained at Towson University are now at the head of the class.
  
  
• The Center for Leadership in Education offers practical workshops for school administrators, teachers and parent groups across the state.  Its members serve as unpaid consultants and advisors to school leaders and system administrators.
  
  
• The college is nationally recognized for its network of more than 110 professional development schools where teacher candidates receive hands-on training in the classroom and guidance from experienced mentor teachers. This approach significantly improves teacher retention, saves needed public education dollars and contributes to an improved learning environment for students.
  
  
• The College of Education has assumed a leadership role in Towson’s metropolitan university outreach program with Baltimore’s Cherry Hill community.  With the Cherry Hill elementary, middle and high schools as the springboards, Towson will respond to a wide range of community needs, from nutritional programs to financial planning. 

Jess & Mildred Fisher College of Science & Mathematics

• The Fisher College recently named Dr. Joy Watts, a nationally recognized molecular ecologist, as the first holder of the Jess & Mildred Fisher Endowed Chair in the Biological and Physical Sciences, which is the only endowed faculty chair at the university.  The college also just awarded the first full tuition Fisher Scholarships to Jonathan Graf (Baltimore) and Rachel Hunter (Chesapeake Beach).
  
  
• The Department of Chemistry offers the only B.S. program in Forensic Chemistry in the state of Maryland.
  
  
• Towson University and the Fisher College’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences have been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Security and Assurance by the National Security Agency.
  
  
• The Fisher College annually receives nearly $2 million in external grants and contracts to support pure and applied research and curriculum development.  An important component of this is a successful record of providing undergraduate research opportunities through major support from the National Science Foundation.
  
  
• The Fisher College has established state-of-the-art interdisciplinary labs in materials science, nanotechnology, and biogeochemistry to conduct faculty/student research dealing with environment and high technology.

College of Fine Arts and Communication

• The Oscars, the Tony’s, the Grammy’s,  Gap commercials, Madonna’s latest tour, The Rockettes,  The Lion King,  Aida, Chicago, Fosse, Chorus Line, Funny Girl, 42nd Street, Cats, and almost every major dance company in the United States,  include graduates of Towson University’s Department of Dance.
  
  
• If you’ve seen the Broadway production of Candide, you’ve seen costumes designed by a Tony Award winning TU graduate—Judy Dolan.  And if you’ve seen the award-winning actors Roc Dutton and John Glover, you’ve seen TU graduates.
  
  
• The U.S. Air Force Band includes Towson University music graduates.
  
  
• Towson University’s M.F.A. in Theatre program has attracted the attention of American Theatre magazine.  American Theatre describes Towson’s program as a “unique international project.”   Students from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Poland and the United States participated in the Warsaw Project hosted by Towson University.
  
  
• Towson University’s production of R & J was recently performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
  
  
• Towson University’s choirs and bands tour annually, taking Towson University throughout the United States.
  
  
• Towson University music alumnus Shea Welsh toured as guitarist for pop singer Britney Spears and played on her two most recent albums.  Music alumnus Austin Caughlin played guitar for the tour of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 

College of Liberal Arts

• Towson University’s Department of Women’s Studies, founded in 1973, is the second-oldest in the United States.
  
  
• The English Department's Online Writing Support Web site has received over 55,000 hits from users as close as Towson and as far away as Singapore. The site offers information, interactive exercises and self-teaching units on grammar, punctuation and usage. It also includes a grammar hotline. 
  
  
• Omar H. Ali, Department of History, will be a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá during the fall 2006 term.
  
  
• Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and his Visionary Friends, the critically acclaimed book by Jack Fruchtman, Department of Political Science, will be available in paperback in late 2006 or early 2007.
  
  
• The 2005 issue of Grub Street, the student literary publication sponsored by Department of English Professor Clarinda Harriss and run entirely by Towson University students, won a Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Only four other universities (one of them Harvard) had student literary publications that received this award last year. 

College of Health Professions

• The College of Health Professions enrolls more bachelor’s and master’s health care and sport-related students than any other institution in Maryland.
  
  
• The Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science has the state’s only combined B.S./M.S. program in Occupational Therapy.
  
  
• The Department of Nursing is Maryland’s second-largest nursing program.
  
  
• The Department of Kinesiology is the largest producer of teachers in physical education and sport-related programs.
  
  
• The Department of Health Science has the only program in Health Care Management certified by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
  
  
• The Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Program is one of only two state-supported programs and the only program to provide the opportunity for students to do a clinical practicum experience in the on-campus clinic.