Read about four of UMB’s professional schools and their degree programs at the Montgomery County campus in the latest issue of “CATALYST.”
Photo: Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN, the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, addresses students at the Universities at Shady Grove.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has established a significant presence at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) in Rockville, Md., with four of its professional schools offering six distinct degree programs on the Montgomery County campus. The School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, School of Social Work, and School of Pharmacy offer high-quality education at this unique location where students can earn degrees from nine different Maryland public universities. USG’s model provides centralized student services while UMB and other partner universities award their own degrees, creating pathways to health care and social work careers while advancing UMB’s mission to serve the public good of Maryland through education, research, clinical care, and service. USG is led by executive director Anne Khademian, PhD, MPA, who also serves as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, University System of Maryland.
University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON)
- Programs offered: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
- Enrollment: 402 BSN students and 63 DNP students
- Leadership: Jana Goodwin, PhD, RN, CNE, chair, UMSON Program at the Universities at Shady Grove, and assistant professor
- Campus presence: Nursing is the largest UMB program at Shady Grove.
- Community impact: Students host annual flu vaccine clinics with the Montgomery County Health Department, organized COVID-19 vaccination clinics in 2021, and run an annual blood drive through the University of Maryland Association of Nursing Students.
The latest issue of "CATALYST" magazine highlights the School of Pharmacy's Mass Spectrometry Center; Police and Public Safety's comfort K9 Poe; the Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute; Bill Joyner, JD, MSW, of the Office of Community and Civic Engagement; the School of Social Work's B'more for Healthy Babies; the School of Medicine's work to develop physicians for rural areas; and much more.