February 9, 2005
Lori Meyer, National Association of State Boards of Education and UMBC Public Policy graduate student
Dan Ritschel, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for History Education, UMBC
Linda Baker, Professor of Psychology, UMBC
Mary Ann Mears, sculptor and Chairperson, Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance
High-Stakes Education Testing and the ‘Lost Curriculum’
February 22, 2005
Kevin McCabe, Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University
Neuroeconomics: Brain Imaging and Economic Decision-Making
March 1, 2005
Susan Reverby, Wellesley College and Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program
Gender and Health Policy: An Historian Activist’s Perspectives
March 7, 2005
Alan Elsner, National Correspondent for Reuters
The Crisis in America’s Prisons and Why You Should Care
April 7, 2005
Peter Berns, Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
A Crisis in Confidence? Ethics and Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector
April 11, 2005
Tom Gjelten,National Security Correspondent for National Public Radio
Cuba after Castro: Predicting the Unpredictable
April 25, 2005
Mary Ann Saar, Maryland Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Maryland’s Project RESTART: A New Direction in Corrections
May 2, 2005
David Salkever
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Public Policy, UMBC (effective August 2005)