In an article posted Monday at The Huffington Post, Harry Boyte, Director of the Minnesota-based Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and coauthor Jason Lowry point to UMBC's SGA as an example of students demonstrating how to "to work across differences to take hold of our collective destiny." According to Boyte and Lowry, "[t]he student government (SGA) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County has become a national model for successfully transforming itself to be a center of student organizing and empowerment. Indeed, UMBC's student government is one of the inspirations for the American Commonwealth Partnership." The American Commonwealth Partnership is a network of higher education leaders and institutions seeking to prepare students for lives of deep and effective engagement in their communities. Several people from UMBC, including President Freeman Hrabowski, are involved in the American Commonwealth Partnership's leadership.
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