Spring 2005 SSF Events


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)

Promoting Employment for Persons with Disabilities: Are the New Incentives Sufficient?