Media Contact
David Hoffman
Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
dhoffman@umbc.edu // 410-455-1565
BreakingGround in News and Publications
- “Who are the Hogan Democrats? UMBC Knows” (Baltimore Sun, November 2018)
- “Voting Does Not Make Democracy” (Forbes, 2018).
- Awakening Democracy Through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018).
- “Higher Education’s Role in Enacting a Thriving Democracy: Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Theory of Change” (American Democracy Project/NASPA/The Democracy Commitment, June 2018)
- “The Secret Behind the Greatest Upset in College Basketball History” (The Atlantic, March 2018)
- “AASCU Announces 2017 American Democracy Project Civic Engagement Award Winners” (American Democracy Project Blog, June 2017)
- <“BreakingGround: A Wellspring of Civic Energy” (Urban University, February 2017)
- Bickel, B., Shewbridge, B., Hübler, R., & Oskoz, A. (2017). Faculty reflections at the intersection of digital storytelling and community engagement. In Jamissen, G., Hardy, P., Nordkvelle, Y., & Pleasants, H. (Eds.) Digital storytelling in higher education: International perspectives (pp. 371-89). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- “Life Skills” (Baltimore Sun Education Supplement, November 2016)
- “Ethos Matters: Inspiring Students as Democracy’s Co-Creators” (NASPA Blog, September 2016)
- “Describing Transformative Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Practices” (American Democracy Project Blog, July 2015)
- “After the Cameras Leave” (Inside Higher Ed, May 2015)
- “Democratic Agency and the Visionary’s Dilemma” (Diversity & Democracy, Winter 2015)
- Hübler, R., & Quan, M. (2015). Leading institutional change for the public good: What community engagement professionals need to know, do, and value. In Dostilio, L. (Ed.) The community engagement professional in higher education: A competency model for an emerging field. Sterling: Stylus Publishing.
- “Returned Volunteer Takes on Food Deserts of Baltimore” (NPCA Polyglot blog, January 2014)
- “Sparrows Point: A year after collapse, unsettled lives” (Baltimore Sun, June 2013)
- “Documentary captures local steel history” (Dundalk Eagle, May 2013)
- “UMBC redefines civic agency” (Better Baltimore, March 2013)
- President Hrabowski shares BreakingGround message on radio commentary (WYPR, February 2013)
- “UMBC students use new media to document a dying industrial past” (Baltimore Sun, February 2013)
- “Social entrepreneurship in the public history classroom” (History@Work, December 2012)
- “Mapping History: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay” (Baltimore Magazine, November 2012)
- “College students celebrate Baybrook at Polish Home” (Maryland Gazette, November 2012)
- Professor Panos Charalambides discusses BreakingGround course on Midday with Dan Rodricks [29:40-33:38] (WYPR, November 2012)
- “Campus spotlight: Breaking Ground at UMBC” (American Democracy Proj., September 2012)
- “On campus, the good side of politics” (Baltimore Sun, September 2012)
- “At the Table of Change” (Huffington Post, August 2012)
- “Owning Yes We Can” (Huffington Post, July 2012)
- “Call for Civic Learning” (Inside Higher Ed, January 2012)
On-Campus Buzz
- “American Democracy Project Honors UMBC’s Philip Rous for Leadership in Civic Engagement” (UMBC News, June 2017)
- “Talking to the #UMBCsky Guy” (The Retriever, November 2016)
- “Craig Berger Named to New Leadership Position with the American Democracy Project” (UMBC News, August 2016)
- “UMBC Hosts Imagining America 2015 with Local Partners” (UMBC News, October 2015)
- “David Hoffman, Student Life, Considers Higher Education’s Future in Zocalo Public Square” (UMBC News, May 2015)
- “UMBC BreakingGround Featured in AASCU Monograph” (UMBC News, November 2014)
- “Philip Rous: BreakingGround and Civic Engagement” (UMBC In the Loop, July 2014)
- “Charlotte Keniston: BreakingGround–Pigtown Food for Thought” (UMBC In the Loop, July 2014)
- “David Hoffman–BreakingGround” (UMBC In the Loop, July 2014)
- “A Tradition of Giving From UMBC’s Earliest Years” (UMBC Giving, April 2013)
- “Back Story” (UMBC Magazine, February 2013)
- “Service-Learning Conference” (Retriever Weekly, January 2013)
- “UMBC’s BreakingGround Initiative Gains Traction” (Retriever Weekly, September 2012)
- “With BreakingGround, Philanthropy Takes on Infinite Forms” (UMBC Giving, September 2012)
- “Empowering Students as Change Agents” (UMBC Homepage, January 2012)