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About 2025 Host Salisbury University

Salisbury University is in Salisbury, MD. The university is a member of the University System of Maryland, and is a regionally accredited four-year comprehensive institution offering 60 distinct undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The Salisbury University Writing Program was one of only three winners of the 2023-2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. The SU Writing Program is composed of the First Year Writing program, University Writing Center (UWC) and Writing Across the Curriculum program. It is the work of three faculty members: Drs. Melissa Bugdal, Carolyne King, and Beth Towle, all of the English Department in the Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts.

Known as “Maryland’s Coastal College Town,” the City of Salisbury has long been the crossroads of the historic Delmarva Peninsula. With a population of some 30,000, it’s the largest city on the Eastern Shore and the No. 1 fastest growing city in Maryland, according to city officials. Founded in 1732 and incorporated in 1854, it also is the county seat for Wicomico. The area offers the ideal mix of an urban center, nestled within a scenic rural region, centrally located to major metropolitan areas.

Getting to Salisbury: American Airlines and Piedmont Airlines fly in to the Salisbury airport, a small regional airport. The closest major airport is BWI in Baltimore, Maryland. A shuttle between Salisbury and BWI can be reserved in advance: The Bay Runner Shuttle (https://bayrunnershuttle.com/. The shuttle runs every two hours and is $89 or less depending on how many people reserve together; we will try to facilitate grouping arrivals. Participants driving to campus will find free parking on campus.