On June 27th 2024 popular social media platform Fizz broke the news about Mr. Samuel Douglas better known as Coaches termination from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore after more than 25 years working for the University. Coach has impacted the lives of thousands of students being a beloved figure across campus dating back almost three decades. From what students have heard Coach has been terminated for helping students receive a better quality of housing which is not within the University’s policy. The University in the past two years has allowed more students to be admitted into the school without proper factors to ensure a quality campus experience. In 2023 UMES had admitted more students since 2015 causing an uproar within the housing department. Coach Douglass was tasked to most students knowledge alone to solve this problem making sure each student had somewhere to lay their heads although housing was at complete Capacity. This upcoming school year we are anticipating even more students to be admitted causing disarray in the standard housing protocols where underclassmen has to be placed in traditional housing for upperclassmen along with upperclassmen being placed off campus. This also has caused graduate housing to be infiltrated by undergraduates not to mention these housing selections are at a higher price and has not be renovated to any current students knowledge in 20 years. Coach has helped thousands of students overcome the obstacle of housing shortages basically alone in these past years and this is how the university chooses to repay his efforts. The university continues to ignore the root of the problem with the student body replacing staff and faculty members who care about the campus community with people who have never been to UMES and see this opportunity as just a job. The university has shown to only care about students when they are benefiting from the media exposure and money coming in. With this many students being placed into an at Capacity campus there have been no plans or efforts to add additional housing, hire more staff to meet the needs of this growing University or anything of that magnitude. We the students of UMES are tired of having our funds be put to use where it will not benefit us but instead the classes after we have long graduated. Please share with alumni, parents, staff and the community as the University has shown their true colors in not being for the students but for their own benefit. Coach did not deserve this and neither do us students who give thousands to have are needs discarded by administration.

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