UDC RESEARCH WEEK

MONDAY, APRIL 19 – FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021

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The University of the District of Columbia

The University of the District of Columbia is:

• The only urban land-grant institution nationally designated an Historically BlackCollege/University (HBCU)
• The only public higher educational option in the District of Columbia
• A source of high quality education at an affordable cost

UDC was consolidated as the University of the District of Columbia in 1976 by merging Districtof Columbia Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute.

The University of the District of Columbia strives to be a pacesetter in urban education andhas the responsibility to build a diverse generation of competitive, civically engage scholarsand leaders.

UDC Academic Units:

• College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences (CAUSES)
• College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)
• David A. Clarke School of Law
• School of Business & Public Administration (SBPA)
• School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS)
• UDC Community College

Learning Resources Division (LRD)

• Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL)
  • Offers a diverse range of services, programs, and professional development activities to advance teaching and learning.
  • Provides programming in cross-disciplinary, discipline-specific, and institutional capacities customized to the individual needs of departments, schools, and colleges.
  • Strives to promote a learner-centered culture that values and rewards inclusive, innovative, and effective instruction and course design.
• Library
  • Provides online access to over 200 databases with thousands of peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, trade publications, e-books, and multi-media resources.
  • Contains over 300,000 print volumes.
  • Offers faculty research support, library instruction, in-person and virtual reference services.
  • Member of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)

Research – FY20 Milestones

• $43M in funding requested   ​
• ​$34M funding awarded

• Approximately  30% of our funding is from the District of Columbia​