Highlighted Partnerships

Towson University faculty, staff, and students collaborate with partners across Maryland to create positive impacts in the Greater Baltimore region. Below are examples and highlights of some of our partnerships.

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Professor Dana Kollmann leads 快活视频students on a forensic field study to help with a 39-year-old cold case in Kentucky

Advanced Forensics Field Investigations

快活视频lead: Dana Kollman, Ph.D., Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Partner: Bay Area Recovery Canines
Impact Area: Community

This interdisciplinary project is centered in the work performed by students in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, who have had success searching for and recovering human remains at the request of law enforcement and forensic archaeologists.

Hands-on experience in helping a family

College of Education and Urban Education

快活视频lead: Jessica Shiller, Ph.D., Dept. of Instructional Leadership & Professional Development
Partners: Baltimore City Public Schools, Afya Public Charter School, Calvin M. Rodwell Elementary School, Forest Park High School
Impact Areas: Community, Education

Using Baltimore City as a case study, students study how racial inequity in urban schools came to be and how to combat it. Students learn about community schools and spend time in them, working with community school coordinators in the school programming.

Community Ecology Institute Program Development

快活视频Lead: Allysin Bridges-German
Partner: Community Ecology Institute
Impact Areas: Community, Education, Health

快活视频Occupational Therapy graduate students partner with the Community Ecology Institute to develop nature-based programs to facilitate participation of youth with disabilities in meaningful activities on a one-acre organic community farm in Howard County during their Community Health Initiatives course.

Empowering Secure Elections

快活视频leads: Natalie Scala, Ph.D., Dept. Business Analytics & Technology Management; Josh Dehlinger, Ph.D., Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences
Partners: Harford County Board of Elections & Anne Arundel County Board of Elections
Impact Areas: Community, Economy, Education

The College of Business and Economics and Fisher College of Science and Mathematics are collaborating to examine potential physical, cyber, and human vulnerabilities to the voting process and create educational materials for Board of Elections personnel.

Fair Chance Higher Education Initiative

快活视频lead: Elyshia Aseltine, Ph.D., Dept. of Criminal Justice
Partners: Baltimore County Detention Center, Goucher Prison Education Partnership, Harford County Detention Center, Jessup Correctional Institution, University of Baltimore Second Chance Program, Volunteers of America
Impact Areas: Community, Economy, Education

Based off the successful creation of an increased Inside-Out cohort of 快活视频faculty from emerging support in 2018鈥�19, this project seeks to increase the capacity for formerly incarcerated individuals to access higher education and employment opportunities.

GIVE: Grantwriting in Valued Environments

快活视频lead: Zosha Stuckey, Ph.D., Dept. of English
Partners: The Friends of Patapsco Valley State Park, Ltd., Safe Alternative foundation for Education, Inc., The Be. Org, Family Survivor Network, Black Girls Cook, Womb Work Production, & St. Lukes Youth Center
Impact Areas: Economy, Education

This partnership advances students' professional writing goals by connecting their coursework to the writing needs of small non-profit organizations in the Baltimore/Washington region.

Grantwriting in Valued Environments project

快活视频students outside of the Baltimore County detention center

Inside-Out Prison Exchange

快活视频lead: Elyshia Aseltine, Ph.D., Dept. of Criminal Justice
Partners: Baltimore County Detention Center, Harford County Detention Center, Jessup Correctional Institution
Impact Areas: Community, Education

Inside-Out courses provide unique opportunities to bring 快活视频students and incarcerated students together inside a correctional institution to learn together as peers. This successful emerging investment has transformed into a larger priority investment to further develop and support returning citizens.

Sweaty Eyeballs Animation at the SNF Parkway Theatre

快活视频lead: Phillip Davis, MFA, Dept. of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Partners: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Theatre, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland Film Festival鈥揝tavros Niarchos Parkway Theatre, Central Baltimore Partnership
Impact Areas: Arts, Education

This community engagement curricular project offers students programming, networking and educational opportunities in the animation field and access to cutting-edge animators. The festival provides an opportunity for local audiences to experience animated films that might not otherwise have a clear path to distribution through the Station North Arts District in Baltimore. As part of a partnership with the Maryland Film Festival, Sweaty Eyeballs is part of a larger institutional focus on arts entrepreneurship.

快活视频Professor brings "Sweaty Eyeballs" to Baltimore

altimore City school students viewing oysters at the harbor

TEAB: Teaching Environmental Awareness in Baltimore

快活视频lead: Sarah Haines, Ph.D., Dept. of Biological Sciences
Partner: National Aquarium
Impact Areas: Arts, Education

This partnership enables Baltimore City school students to explore the environment of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the Inner Harbor through hands-on experience at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

快活视频partnership benefits Baltimore City students, Inner Harbor

TU-BCPS Model United Nations

快活视频lead: Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Ph.D., Dept. of Political Science
Partner: Baltimore County Public Schools
Impact Areas: Economy, Education

The TU-BCPS Model UN program provides equal access to civic engagement learning experiences for students in Baltimore County Public Schools while providing 快活视频students with hands-on opportunities mentoring high school students.

快活视频Empowering Communities Project

快活视频leads: Aminata Silah, Ph.D., Dept. of Political Science; Donn Worgs, Ph.D., Department of Political Science
Partners: A variety of black and/or minority-led Baltimore City nonprofit organizations
Impact Areas: Community, Economy

This partnership between the Department of Political Science and several nonprofit organizations is focused on economic empowerment and capacity building with goals around connecting nonprofits to opportunities, providing technical assistance, and facilitating collaborative ventures.

Baltimore Nonprofit Summit: Strengthening and Supporting Black and Minority-Led Organizations

快活视频& Helping Up Mission

快活视频Lead: Mary Lashley, Ph.D.
Partner: Helping Up Mission
Impact Areas: Community, Health

Since 2003, Towson University and Helping Up Mission have been partnering to address the complex health needs of homeless men in recovery from chemical addictions while providing transformational, hands-on opportunities to Towson University students.