NEWS
BRIEFS
New University Honors
Program To Launch in
Fall 2019
Mission: I’m
Home Celebrates
10 Years of Service
The Mission: I’m Home student service
organization is celebrating its 10-year an-
niversary by continuing to help rehabilitate
Stevenson Service and Leadership Scholars meet award-winning National Geographic
photographer Paul Nicklen.
The university is developing a new four-year Honors Program that brings to-
gether honors general education classes with honors experiences in students’
majors to help them become independent, creative, and analytical thinkers.
The Honors Program will allow students to build relationships and make con-
nections between disciplines and with faculty and fellow students and to pur-
communities in New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
New Jersey, Staten Island, and Baltimore.
These trips give students the opportunity to
spend their breaks helping those in need.
During the past decade, nearly 700
students have attended 25 service trips that
have helped more than 50 families.
sue research and scholarship.
Rivka Glaser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, has been selected to be
the Honors Faculty Director and will lead the further development of the
program. The students in the Honors Program as well as those in our Service
and Leadership Programs will have opportunities for exceptional experiences
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please go to the online version at
stevenson.edu/ventures.
such as meeting distinguished political, social, and cultural leaders through
the Baltimore Speakers Series.
New Program Approved by MHEC:
Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
Stevenson has received approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to offer the
state’s first online Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. Combining cyber-
security concepts and skills with those in the field of digital forensics creates a unique degree
specifically designed to respond to the growing demand for more specialists with the expertise to
combat cyber crimes. The program will begin in fall 2018 for Stevenson University Online and
fall 2019 for traditional undergraduates in the School of Business and Leadership.
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