Photo of Rebecca and Charles “Chuck” Daggs ’69 by Maryland Today
UMD Alum and Wife Make $1M Gift to Scholarship Program that Creates Community
"These are disciplined young people that have worked very hard to get where they are, and you don't want the financial side of it to get in the way of their success.” –– Charles “Chuck” Daggs ’69
UMD student runs for PGCPS Board of Education, hopes to address community concerns
"I want to be that partner for our students, our families, our parents, our educators and our staff.” ––Alvaro Ceron-Ruiz '27
Photo: The Diamondback
A unique scholarship program has transformed the lives of hundreds of UMD students. Twenty-five years later, its pioneers share how.
“What IAP promoted the most was that we were a family. You’re not in this alone. You’re a part of this team. Whenever we heard ‘program,’ we heard ‘family.’” ––Ebony Washington, Cohort 1.
Shiron Lindsay ’08 has quietly purchased homes across the city and rehabbed them largely with her own sweat equity and savings to provide safe, dignified housing for some of Baltimore’s most vulnerable individuals: grandparents raising grandchildren, recovering addicts, individuals with disabilities, families emerging from homelessness.
Shiron Lindsay '08 has rehabbed homes throughout Baltimore and made them available for people from vulnerable communities. Photo by John T. Consoli, UMD
Dr. Mote speaking at an Oct. 2021 University House reception. Photo by S. Cordle, UMD
To honor its founder, IAP will now be known as the C.D. Mote, Jr. Incentive Awards Program. The former UMD President is being recognized for contributions to the engineering field and for expanding education access for students from public high schools in Baltimore, Charles, Montgomery and Prince George's County.