CPCUP 20th Anniversary Forum Part 5

In October 2017, the College Park City-University Partnership celebrated its 20th Anniversary with two events -- an academic forum followed by an evening reception. The goal: to celebrate our organization’s 20th anniversary and to think intellectually about our Partnership and how it can serve as a model for other university communities nationwide.

The academic forum featured former Governor Parris Glendening, Former USM Chancellor and UMD president in 1997 at the Partnership’s founding, Brit Kirwan, Omar Blaik, CEO of U3 Advisors
and consultant to UMD and the Partnership, Donna Wiseman, current PGCPS Board of Education member and former UMD Dean of the College of Education and Gerrit J. Knaap, Executive Director of the UMD National Center for Smart Growth. About 60 people attended the event, and panelists had a lively conversation about the College Park Partnership’s first 20 years, how city, university, county and state collaboration is creating a sustainable top-20 town and ways to continue our progress into the future.