Dewayne Morgan is the University System of Maryland’s (USM) Director of Education, Outreach and Pipeline Development. His major areas of focus include STEM programs and careers recruitment, educator preparation and professional development, undergraduate student retention and progression to graduation, and P-20 partnerships with P-12 schools. In 1998, he helped create USM’s Maryland Center for Computing Education (MCCE), which is designed to expand access to high-quality computing education by increasing the number of well-trained computer science teachers in elementary, middle and secondary education schools. From 2015-2020, Dewayne also served as the project director for USM’s First In The World Maryland Mathematics Reform Initiative grant which engaged all Maryland higher education institutions to collaboratively develop to a new statistics-based mathematics pathway that is more aligned with students’ perspective majors. Recently, Dewayne served as the editor for Reforming Mathematics in Maryland: Stories From the Journey, a USM-published monograph that highlights nine institutional approaches to implementing undergraduate mathematics reform in Maryland. Five universities and four community colleges relate the challenges they encountered and the success they have enjoyed in the course of their work, developing new courses, redesigning existing curriculum, building collaborative relationships within and across campuses, and supporting student success.
