CATONSVILLE, Md. — A UMBC program is helping underrepresented students reach for graduate degrees and beyond, with its director paying forward the support he received in Baltimore.

Michael Hunt, director of the UMBC McNair Scholars Program, remembers the people who believed in him as a youth and shaped his path to success.

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"I've always been inquisitive, and I've always had community folks who really cultivated that for me. So my home church in Baltimore, which was New Shiloh Baptist Church, a lot of folks from the Black middle class came from that community. I was from a single parent home and my mom made sure that I was always in those spaces

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