404/Maryland Manual

Library and Information Services, and Physical
Education, Recreation and Health, and Schools of
Architecture and Public Affairs. The schools,
colleges, and departments are within the divisions
of (1) Agricultural and Life Sciences, (2) Mathe-
matical and Physical Sciences and Engineering, (3)
Behavioral and Social Sciences, (4) Arts and
Humanities, and (5) Human and Community Re-
sources.

Headquarters for the Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station and the Maryland Cooperative
Extension Service are located at UMCP. Among
the many research and public service organizations
on campus are the Sea Grant College, Fire and
Rescue Institute, Center on Aging, Survey Re-
search Center, Engineering Research Center,
Transportation Studies Center, Water Resources
Research Center, Bureau for Business and Eco-
nomic Research, Institute for Applied Agriculture,
Institute for Urban Studies, and the Institute for
Governmental Service (IGS). The latter institute
helps Maryland municipalities, counties, and State
agencies solve specific problems. IGS also houses
the University's Office of Public Service, which is
designed to make it easier for the citizens of
Maryland and the National Capital region to find
and use the extensive resources of the five-campus
University system. A public service hotline,
454-3000, is operated from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.

The Eastern Shore Campus (UMES) offers cur-
ricula in the arts and sciences, business, agricul-
ture, and other areas; pre-professional training;
extension education; and marine, estuarine, and
environmental sciences. Research and public ser-
vices organizations at UMES include the Maryland
Cooperative Extension Service, Maryland Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, Institute for Eastern
Shore Studies, and the Soybean Research Institute.

University College (UMUC) administers the
University's adult and continuing education pro-
grams, with fiscally self-supporting courses and
programs offered on the several campuses and at
off-campus centers throughout the State. Universi-
ty College also maintains overseas centers for U.S.
military personnel and civilians. In addition,
UMUC, through its Conferences and Institutes
Division, offers an extensive variety of non-credit
adult courses, seminars, workshops, and institutes.
With the Maryland Center for Public Broadcast-
ing, UMUC operates the National University Con-
sortium, the country's first national
degree-granting TV college. UMUC offers master's
programs in administration, computer systems
management, and technology management.

The University-wide Graduate School embraces
all of the graduate programs of the University with
liaison among the campuses maintained by a Vice-
President for Graduate Studies and Research and
through the President's Advisory Committee for
Graduate Studies and Research.

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE

Symons Hall
University of Maryland
College Park 20742 Telephone: 454-3742

The Cooperative Extension Service was estab-
lished by federal and State laws in 1914. It is
supported by federal, State, and county funds
(Chapter 247, Acts of 1914).

The Cooperative Extension Service is noted for
its programs in agriculture, home economics, 4-H
and youth, energy and marine sciences, and com-
munity and resource development.

In its role as the "off-campus out-of-classroom"
arm of the University of Maryland, the Extension
Service uses a number of different methods to
provide educational programs, including personal
consultations, direct mail, publications, radio, tele-
vision, workshops, institutes, and short courses.
Offices and staffs in all twenty-three Maryland
counties and Baltimore City bring the University
of Maryland close to the people.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION

Symons Hall
University of Maryland
College Park 20742 Telephone: 454-3707

The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
was established following passage of the federal
Hatch Act in 1887. The Act made available to the
states grants-in-aid for the conduct of research
pertaining to agriculture. Now both State and
federal funds support these activities. Administra-
tive headquarters are located on the College Park
Campus, as well as laboratories for research in the
animal and plant sciences, agricultural engineer-
ing, agricultural and resource economics, rural
sociology, and home and consumer economics.
Provisions are made for maintenance of experi-
mental herds, flocks, field and tree plots, and for
investigations of soils and insect and disease con-
trol (Chapter 55, Acts of 1888, as amended).

Research is conducted at eleven locations
throughout the State, with particular attention to
the type of farming dominant in the respective