In the News

Members of the UMBC community in print and digital publications.

J. Kevin Eckert, Erickson School, in McKnight’s
McKnight’s Long-Term Care & Assisted Living magazine profiled J. Kevin Eckert, dean of the Erickson School, in its August 1 issue. The magazine is considered a leading publication in the aging-services sector. Eckert “believes that the way the Erickson School is preparing future leaders in aging services and helping reinvent the way society views and responds to aging is also cause for optimism,” the story said.
http://www.mcknights.com/Student-of-the-world/article/113660/
Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the News
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller’s latest column for the Baltimore Sun assessed the Democrats’ presidential election strategies for the West. “Led by Chairman Howard Dean, Democrats thirsty for victory picked Denver (for its convention) with the intent of converting (Colorado) and other portions of the West away from the Republican Party and into fertile, blue terrain,” Schaller wrote. The column, “How the West Will be Won,” ran August 26.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller26aug26,0,5818068.column
Schaller told the Los Angeles Times that the Democrats’ best strategy during the convention is to emphasize issues of most importance to Western voters. “Democrats can’t sell New York-style, Massachusetts-style union politics out there,” Schaller said. “They can sell a new environmentally conscious, pragmatic governing style.” The story, “Democrats Focus on Rocky Mountain West,” ran August 24 and also appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune August 25.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-west24-2008aug24,0,3399804.story
http://www.startribune.com/politics/27337529.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUbP:P:Q_V_MPQLa7PYDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
The New Yorker cited Schaller’s book Whistling Past Dixie and its call on the Democrats to focus on successful strategies for the West. Schaller “argues that Democrats should give up on the South and focus on the West, partly because white Southerners, more than any other group, use social issues as a prism through which they view all other issues—and that attempts by Democrats to express some cultural affinity with these voters are rarely successful,” the magazine reported. The article, “The Code of the West,” appeared in the September 1 issue.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/01/080901fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
Schaller told ABC News that a Democratic presidential victory will come by winning pivotal independents in Mountain States. “Whoever can grab the greater share of the attention of the Colorado independents is probably going to win the state’s nine electoral votes,” Schaller said. The story, “Democrats Court West’s Independents,” aired on World News Tonight August 25.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Conventions/story?id=5650766&page=1
UMBC in U.S.News & World Report
UMBC was named an “Up-and-Coming” campus in the latest U.S.News & World Report America’s Best Colleges Guide. UMBC is among the top five national universities recognized as innovators, with George Mason, Clemson, University of Southern California and Arizona State University. The Baltimore Sun and Washington Post reported UMBC’s selection to the list August 22 and August 23, respectively.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.rankings22aug22,0,2269862.story
UMBC in the Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun profiled freshman move-in day at UMBC, interviewing faculty mentor Karin Readel, a senior lecturer in the geography and environmental systems department, freshmen Ziggy Pyzik and Seth Behrick and President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III. Freshman Blake Hubble was pictured. The story, “Orderly Chaos at UMBC,” ran August 24.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.move24aug24,0,6396194.story