Dr Dorland is the Head of the Honors College and he is totally dedicated to that Institution, but his personal story is nothing short of amazing. The link is to an article about him that appeared in the TERP newsletter a while back.
Thank you for posting this @SoofDad. It is an incredible story and he is such a great guy.
Thanks, @soofdad What a remarkable man he must be. I’ll make sure D2 sees the article.
Wow, I didn’t know anything about this, although I had noticed and wondered about his use of a cane – just assumed it was some temporary knee/foot injury. I’ll be forwarding the link to my son as well. Thank you @soofdad!
Hey @Soofdad do you know how many students join the Honors Program every year at UMD?
@dudefromnowhere - I don’t really know. It may have been mentioned at some point, but I don’t remember. Maybe @maryversity can answer that one.
@dudefromnowhere - I have a brochure that says “Each year approximately 1000 undergraduates are welcomed into this highly selective program.”
@dudefromnowhere, adding up the numbers on the “Program Comparison” chart that we were using last spring, the numbers were University Honors “approximately” 450 + Gemstone ~200 + ACES ~75 + ILS ~75 + EIP ~75 + Design/Cultures/Creativity ~70 + Honors Humanities ~70 = ~1015, so looks like they were prepared to handle around 1,000 students total in the Honors College.
For this year, (at http://www.honors.umd.edu/, click on the words “Living-Learning Programs” on the right-hand side of the page and that will take you to the current comparison document) the numbers look only a tiny bit different: University Honors ~475 + Gemstone ~150, and then the other 5 are all ~75 [drumroll while I do the numbers] = 1,000.
So the Honors College seems set up for about 1,000 students, looking at the numbers from last year and this year.
@dudefromnowhere
Though the college holds ~1000 students, they accept around 2800. The honors college acceptance letter states that there’s an acceptance rate of ~10% out of all applicants for the honors college
This was very inspiring. I now have so much respect for this man.