Welcoming the World

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has a tradition of welcoming international students to the institution.

As far back as the early 20th century, there is evidence in a document from Morgan College in Baltimore, which oversaw its branch campus on the lower Eastern Shore, that a foreign student was enrolled in Princess Anne Academy.

Selenda Malinda Parker of Monrovia, Liberia, was among 16 named as June 1923 graduates from what also was referred to as "the Eastern Branch of the University of Maryland (Preparatory and Normal Courses)." Her theme listed in the graduation program for what was then a prep school was "Africa's Need of an Industrial Education."

Fifty-three nations are represented in the ranks of the faculty and 4,500-member student body at UMES during its 125th academic year.