A tour of the exhibition Sharing the Past, Building the Future: UMBC at 50 led by Chief Curator Tom Beck & Archivist Lindsey Loeper.

The forces that contributed to the founding of UMBC — from emerging need triggered by the post-World War II baby boom to a higher education ideal conceptualized by Chancellor Albin O. Kuhn —converged on September 19, 1966 with the commencement of the first classes at the new university.