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Partnerships
The future of public higher education in America depends on forming effective partnerships with government, industry, business, faculty and students to carry on the discovery and creation of knowledge that underlies the continuing improvement of our social, civic, economic and cultural lives.
President Mote has facilitated the establishment and enhancement of many partnerships that will benefit both the university and the larger society.
Here are some examples:
- NOAA's selection of the M Square site is a reflection of the University of Maryland's long tradition of atmospheric, climate and earth science research. And it's a recognition that in recent years Maryland has become a leading center for climate research and numeric weather forecasting, developing major new partnerships with federal agencies in the areas of earth science, remote imaging, climate change and energy research.
- The Joint Global Change Research Institute, a university-based collaboration between Maryland and the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
- Another is the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, a joint center between the university's departments of meteorology, geology and geography and the Earth Sciences Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language is a federally funded University Affiliated Research Center that started in 2003. It conducts groundbreaking research that focuses on less commonly taught languages, language acquisition, contextual analysis of language, and human computer interaction and machine (computer) translation.
The center looks at a wide range of factors affecting how languages are used and how they are learned. Its core tasks include: conducting basic and applied research on language, cognition and culture; fostering collaborative research across academia, government, and industry; and fostering education in language, linguistics and culture to support language professionals in government service.
- The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language builds on the work of the university's National Foreign Language Center. The NFLC serves as the nation's principal institutional resource for strategic planning and drafting of policy for language. Its current projects include developing high-level language centers at U.S. universities, creating Internet-based individual language instruction programs and helping K-12 school districts develop and improve language programs.
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