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TU honors three community partnerships with 2025 BTU Partnership Awards
Annual celebration recognizes TU faculty, staff, students, community partners driving meaningful impact across Maryland
BTU awarded Partnership Awards to three programs on Wed., Nov. 12, during a celebration recognizing the collaborative work being done by faculty, staff, students and community partners to address community needs. Descriptions of the 麻豆传媒高清 are below.
Autism Hiring Program
Leads: Kimberly Hubscher, Hussman Center for Adults with Autism, and Kaitlyn Wilson, College of Health Professions
Partner: Autism Society of Maryland
This partnership exemplifies TU鈥檚 commitment to the public good and turning ambition into action while increasing partnerships across departments and with affiliate organizations and Maryland employers. By delivering transformative outcomes for autistic adults through career readiness programming and curriculum, self-advocacy and ongoing mentorship, this partnership makes workplaces more inclusive, supportive and neuro-diverse environments.
Culturally Responsive Mathematics Activities for BCPS Students
Lead: Diana Cheng, Fisher College of Science & Mathematics
Partner: Baltimore County Public Schools
Through mathematics instruction, collaborative programming and mentorship across academic levels, this partnership takes a unique approach to address underrepresentation and inequities in the STEM field. This partnership ensures mathematics students graduate with the vision to craft solutions that use action-based research to enrich student experiences and provide instruction through the lens of civic and social issues.
Baltimore Community Archeology Lab
Lead: Katherine Sterner, College of Liberal Arts
Partner: Preservation Maryland
This partnership strengthens historic preservation and ethical stewardship of the past through project-based learning and civic engagement opportunities grounded in historical preservation and advocacy. This work ensures the Indigenous community has a voice in historical preservation and narrative processes while strengthening historical preservation in Maryland and establishing TU as a leader in Indigenous and archaeological collaboration.