Media Contact
David Hoffman
Assistant Director of Student Life for Civic Agency
dhoffman@umbc.edu // 410-455-1565
BreakingGround in the News
- “After the Cameras Leave” (Inside Higher Ed, May 2015)
- “Democratic Agency and the Visionary’s Dilemma” (Diversity & Democracy, Winter 2015)
- “Returned Volunteer Takes on Food Deserts of Baltimore” (NPCA Polyglot blog, January 2014)
- “Sparrows Point: A year after collapse, unsettled lives” (Baltimore Sun, June 2013)
- “Documentary captures local steel history” (Dundalk Eagle, May 2013)
- “UMBC redefines civic agency” (Better Baltimore, March 2013)
- President Hrabowski shares BreakingGround message on radio commentary (WYPR, February 2013)
- “UMBC students use new media to document a dying industrial past” (Baltimore Sun, February 2013)
- “Social entrepreneurship in the public history classroom” (History@Work, December 2012)
- “Mapping History: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay” (Baltimore Magazine, November 2012)
- “College students celebrate Baybrook at Polish Home” (Maryland Gazette, November 2012)
- Professor Panos Charalambides discusses BreakingGround course on Midday with Dan Rodricks [29:40-33:38] (WYPR, November 2012)
- “Campus spotlight: Breaking Ground at UMBC” (American Democracy Proj., September 2012)
- “On campus, the good side of politics” (Baltimore Sun, September 2012)
- “At the Table of Change” (Huffington Post, August 2012)
- “Owning Yes We Can” (Huffington Post, July 2012)
- “Call for Civic Learning” (Inside Higher Ed, January 2012)
On-Campus Buzz
- “A Tradition of Giving From UMBC’s Earliest Years” (UMBC Giving, April 2013)
- “Back Story” (UMBC Magazine, February 2013)
- “Service-Learning Conference” (Retriever Weekly, January 2013)
- “UMBC’s BreakingGround Initiative Gains Traction” (Retriever Weekly, September 2012)
- “With BreakingGround, Philanthropy Takes on Infinite Forms” (UMBC Giving, September 2012)
- “Empowering Students as Change Agents” (UMBC Homepage, January 2012)
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