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Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about the university of Maryland University college, which is a public Online University, that is designed here we go. Designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and careerrelevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are, i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947, at the university of maryland, as a department that was charged with serving adult students, particularly those who were returning g is from world war ii. In 1949, we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our trips stationed in germany. And this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956, we had established divisions to deliver Higher Education in both europe and asia, and in 1963, we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970, we became an independent, fully accredited
Future work force. So were going to go into our third group of presenters under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely polietto followed by michael rourke, followed by will zimpf. If we can have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk about university of Maryland University college, which is the public Online University that is designed here we go designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. To understand who we are, i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of maryland as a department that was charged with serving adult students, particularly those who were returning gis from world war ii. In 1949, we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our troops stationed in germany, and this was the beginning of umucs global reach
Gives hirs state of the Union Address to congress and the nation. Join cspan for a preview of the evening starting at 8 eastern. And then the state of the union speech live at 9 00 p. M. And following the speech, the democratic response, also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. President trumps state of the Union Address tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the radio app and on demand on your desk phone or tablet at cspan. Org. Education senator betsy devos took part in the rethink School Summit here in washington. Over the next hour 15 minutes, stakeholders from across the country discuss ideas for educating and training americas future workforce. So we are going to go into our third group of presenters. Under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely pal el owe followed by Michael Roark and wrap up by jeff. If we could have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk ab
Leaving plenty of time to get to googling and bone up on the accomplishments of notable africanamericans. Like Garrett Morgan the son of formerly enslaved parents, who was the first person to apply for and receive a u. S. Patent for a traffic signal. Ida b. Wells, a journalist and activist who led a tireless crusade against lynching in the 1890s. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams the first physician to perform and successfully complete open heart surgery on a patient in the United States. Or Marian Anderson whose soaring voice earned her the distinction of being both the first africanamerican to perform with the new York Metropolitan Opera and the first to perform at the invitation of franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt at the white house. And the list goes on. But of course africanAmerican History, which is to say American History, is much more than a listing of little known names and facts. Any honest interrogation of that history means not just gathering a collection of trivia about individual am