UMBC’s Integrated Product Development and Manufacturing Graduate Certificate program engages students in bringing innovation to the world.

We sat down and chatted with Sally Scott, Program Director of UMBC’s Graduate Program in Community Leadership. We spoke about her recent contribution in a report she co-authored with Seema Iyer of the Jacob France Institute at the University of Baltimore titled Overcoming Barriers to Home Ownership in Baltimore City. 

UMBC not only offers its students a high-quality educational experience, but it also prepares students for career success.

UMBC researchers have received various grants over the years to help advance their work in important, life-saving areas such as COVID-19 detection and anti-viral studies.

Recently, UMBC’s Community Leadership graduate program director Sally Scott, co-authored a report, Overcoming Barriers to Homeownership in Baltimore City. The report analyzed if additional first-time homebuyer incentives and more flexibly underwritten loans could reverse declining rates of homeownership in Baltimore.