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Leaders in Education: Academy of Presidential Scholars LEAPS

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The LEAPS Council and its membership work to promote and graduate leaders who will shape social justice, legal justice, and health care education.

Advancing Visionary Education

The initiative on education creates a great opportunity for educators ... along with the opportunity for UMB to become a presence in the professional education scholarly community.

UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

New Grant & Award Opportunities!

2026 LEAPS Scholar Awards - Accepting nominations starting on November 8!
2026 LEAPS Scholar Awards Nomination Guidelines

2026-2027 LEAPS Instructional Innovation Seed Grants – Apply starting on November 15!
2026-2027 LEAPS Seed Grant Application Instructions

Reach out with questions: LEAPS@umaryland.edu 

Mission

The LEAPS Council and its membership work to promote and graduate leaders who will shape social justice, legal justice, and health care education.

LEAPS Council

Goals

  • Recognize and advance the achievements of educators across the university
  • Cultivate skills and knowledge for educational leadership and scholarship
  • Promote educational innovations and scholarship
About LEAPS

Join the LEAPS Steering Committee!

Are you a faculty member investigating the impact of your instructional practices? If so, LEAPS invites you to join our presidential initiative shaping educational scholarship on our campus. We are looking for interested faculty members from each UMB school to join the next Steering Committee.

Innovation Seed Grant Awardees

Explore past recipients of the Innovation Seed Grants and their groundbreaking projects.

Innovation Seed Grants Program

Educators Awardees

Review the achievements of UMB's past Educator Scholarship awardees.

Award-winning Educators

Speaker Series

Check out the semi-annual talks focused on evolving pedagogy and instructional techniques.

LEAPS Speaker Series

Annual Symposium

Get insights from UMB’s annual symposium highlighting progress and achievement in educational scholarship.

LEAPS Symposium

‘Moving the Needle’ Podcast

Donna Parker, MD, FACP, and Christina Cestone, PhD, co-chairs of LEAPS, discuss this new initiative designed to support current faculty members at UMB by recognizing and rewarding educational scholarship and innovation, as well as help advance the career paths for UMB educators.

Contact

Leaders in Education: Academy of Presidential Scholars

LEAPS

leaps@umaryland.edu

We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions.

Related Information

Educator Scholarship Awards Innovation Seed Grants Program LEAPS Symposium LEAPS Speaker Series

UPCOMING EVENTS

Save the date! LEAPS 4th Annual Symposium - March 26, 2026 - SMC Campus Center

 

 

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