User Profile
- Name:
- Barbara Schwartz-Bechet
- Position:
- Program Director, Certification Programs
- Graduate School of Management and Technology
- Bio:
Dr. Barbara Schwartz-Bechet, Director of Certification Programs & Collegiate Associate Professor at University of Maryland University College, has been in the field of education for over 25 years. She joined UMUC in August 2009. Dr. Schwartz-Bechet received her doctorate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Columbia University in New York City. She began as a teacher and principal of several schools in New York City. Upon relocating to Maryland sixteen years ago, Dr. Schwartz-Bechet instructed undergraduate and graduate students at Johns Hopkins University and Bowie State University (BSU). She achieved the rank of Associate Professor and Coordinator of Early Childhood/Special Education during her tenure at BSU. She participated in numerous department, school, and system committee meeting�s including representing BSU at MHEC meetings, the Maryland Consortium of Early Childhood Faculty and Administrators, and at University of Maryland Shady Grove USM meetings. Additionally, Dr. Schwartz-Bechet had and continues to present at local, national, and international conferences, has been a requested speaker for local schools, and has published and received grants throughout her tenure within the University System of Maryland.
