2023 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum
March 7, 2023
Each year, Pitt elevates, celebrates, and reflects on collective approaches to community-engaged scholarship at the University at the annual Community Engaged Scholarship Forum (CESF).
CESF provides an opportunity for faculty, students, staff and community members to present their community-engaged work, discover new avenues of partnership, network with those who do similar work and celebrate Pitt's commitment to community engagement.
Progress Through Partnerships: Expanding Narratives
March 7, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
William Pitt Union
2023 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jay Perman
Jay A. Perman, MD, became the fifth chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) in January 2020. The USM enrolls more than 170,000 students in 12 universities and three regional higher education centers across the state, and confers nearly eight in every 10 bachelor's degrees awarded in Maryland. As chancellor, Dr. Perman is committed to advancing higher education affordability for all students, and ensuring that every person in Maryland who wants a college education can access it.
Dr. Perman is building on the USM's reputation for innovation, particularly in teaching and learning, community engagement, and research. The system's R&D enterprise has grown to eclipse $1.5 billion in extramural funding, and key technology commercialization metrics-invention disclosures, licenses, and startups-have climbed significantly. Dr. Perman leverages the system's size and reach to support the state's top priorities in education, innovation, and workforce and economic development, and has deepened interinstitutional collaboration to create new academic opportunities for students, advance interdisciplinary research, and solve the biggest, most intractable problems challenging Maryland and the nation.
Dr. Perman received his Doctor of Medicine degree with Distinction in 1972 from Northwestern University. After his residency in pediatrics at Northwestern University Children's Memorial Hospital, he completed a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School and at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Perman's career includes service on many U.S. higher education boards, including the National Association of System Heads, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities, and the Southern Regional Education Board. He is a member of the Association of Governing Boards' Council of Presidents, and is active on issues involving specialized and regional accreditation, serving as chair of several Middle States review teams.
Locally and regionally, Dr. Perman chairs the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board and serves on the boards of the University of Maryland Medical System, the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, Baltimore's Promise, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is past-chair of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. In 2020 and 2021, Dr. Perman was named to The Baltimore Sun's Business and Civic Hall of Fame, the Baltimore Business Journal's Power 10, and The Maryland Daily Record's Power 100, as well as that paper's list of Influential Marylanders. A native of Chicago, Dr. Perman and his wife, Andrea, a research nurse, have four adult children and nine grandchildren and reside in Baltimore.