College Highlights
The College of Liberal Arts offers a vast array of educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff and the community. Here are some examples from this successful year.
CLA Student Scholarship and Inquiry Conference
CLA hosted it's inaugural Undergraduate Student Scholarship and Inquiry Conference with a panel and poster presentations, guided by Assistant Dean Alhena Gadotti
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Baltimore Immigration Summit recognized with BTU Partnership Award
The Baltimore Immigration Summit, led by Dr. Elizabeth Clifford, was recognized with a BTU Partnership Award for its positive impact in the greater Baltimore community.
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Patterson Family Foundation’s College Scholarship
TU announced the award of $75,000 in scholarship to ten students through the Patterson Family Foundation’s College Scholarships, founded by accomplished and famed author James Patterson. Selected students received $7,500 towards their tuition for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Clearing Barriers to Students’ Degrees and Dreams
Through the Interdisciplinary Studies program, Dr. Carol Caronna helped undergraduates navigate a way forward so they can stay at TU and graduate.
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Events
Faculty Career Development
Student Career Development
- Anthropology Day
- Baltimore Community Archaeology Lab Open House
- Counseling PSYC Internship Fair & Clinial PSYC Internship Open House
- Digital Public History Careers Workshop
- International Education Week: CLA Study Abroad; Teaching Overseas
- LLC World Wednesdays: Advising & Career Center
- Lunch with an Alum: Careers in History
- Professional Writing Program: Learn how TU Graduates Published their Books of Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction
- Psychology Research Fair
Global Initiatives
- Alex Esquivel: Visual Narratives, Historical Memory, and Race: The Intersection of Art, Society, and Politics in Cuba
- A Conversation Series on Science and Philosophy: Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies
- Día de los Muertos Alter
- Exile in Jewish Modernity International Conference
- Forging Linguistic Identities Conference
- Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival
- Languages, Literatures & Cultures (LLC) World Wednesdays
- LGBTQIA+ Conference
- The Slave Wrecks Project
- Virtual Tour of Auschwitz
- We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Conversations with Authors
- Global LGBTQ Health Book Presentation
- Towson Literary Reading Series: Ashleigh Bryant Philips
- Towson Literary Reading Series: Athena Dixon
- Towson Literary Reading Series: Sylvia Jones and Thea Brown
- Vicki Valosik, Author of "Swimming Pretty," Reading, Q&A, and Signing
- Stories as Platforms of Hope: From Buffalo to Rwanda and Beyond
Dean’s Office Initiatives, Programming
- CLASSIC: CLA Student Scholarship & Inquiry Conference
- Democracy Today Book Event ft. Dannagel Goldthwaite Young
- Drones and Public Safety: Transforming Emergency Response & Policing
- John Gissendanner Film Series
- John Gissendanner Lecture: Through the Lens: Sam Pollard on the Art of Film Making
- Making Sense of America Lecture Series
- Pearlstone Professorship Lecture: Media, Power, and Identity: Constructng the Middle East in the 21st Century
- Remembering the Scopes Trial at 100: a Democracy Today & Commemorative Moments Event
Annual Events
- 4th Annual Human Rights in the Field Lecture: Gaza, Palestine, and Israel: Do Human Rights Matter?
- 6th Annual Human Rights & History Lecture: The Migrant's Jail with Dr. Brianna Nofil
- Badolato Speaker Series: Drones and Public Safety: Transforming Emergency Response & Policing
- Baltimore Immigration Summit
- Constitution Day
- Eric A. Belgrad Speaker Series: Alison McCartney, "Global Youth Civic Engagement"
- Hirschmann-McWilliams Asian Studies Keynote: Tracing the Outbreak of War: Reliable and Unreliable Sources in the Early Age of the Samurai
- Ian Moore Memorial Lecture: Disruption! Race and Misaligned Life
- Wing-Chun Wong Memorial Lecture: Dr. Timothy Connolly, East Stroudsburg University