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Michelle Obama wants Bowie State graduates to promote education
Michelle Obama encouraged the graduates of Bowie State University on Friday to live up to the legacy of their university's founders and the leaders of the civil rights movement by promoting the importance of education in the black community. "Just...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Students, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning
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The road to readiness
Graduation season has arrived, and with the accompanying recognitions of hard work, we have something else to celebrate: this year's passage and today's signing of the College Readiness and Completion Act of 2013. Never before has the state of Maryland...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Schools, High Schools
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University system board approves tuition, fee increase
Maryland's in-state undergraduates will pay a few hundred dollars more per semester this fall under a new tuition-and-fee plan approved Wednesday by the university system's Board of Regents. Out-of-state students will be hit a little harder, paying as...
Tags: Students, Catherine E. Pugh, Colleges and Universities, Towson University, Bowie State University
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Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced
As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...
Tags: Perry Hall, Chestertown, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Kent County
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Panel recommends changes at Coppin State
Coppin State University should enroll higher-caliber freshmen, focus more on transfer and returning students, and reorganize its academics and administration, a committee plans to report Wednesday to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents....
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, University System of Maryland, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Columbia's Lincoln Tech graduates given the tools to succeed
While many schools say they give students tools for success, it's literal for graduates of Lincoln College of Technology and Culinary Institute in Columbia. "At Lincoln, we are proud to teach careers that build America," said Columbia campus President...
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An Annapolis tradition, grounded
My town, Annapolis, is a special kind of college town. The students at the Naval Academy are distinctive not for their backpacks, ear buds and school T-shirts, but for their crisp summer whites and their somber dress blues. The midshipmen take off...
Tags: United States Naval Academy, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House, Ceremonies, Annapolis
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, Bowie State University, Martin O'Malley, Notre Dame of Maryland University
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New college grads face difficult job market
Jackie Carter had it all mapped out. She would attend college year-round and graduate early, land a job in criminal justice, start paying off student loans, move into her own apartment and invest in her first smartphone. But the 22-year-old Towson...
Tags: Students, Unemployment, Baltimore County, Philosophy, Colleges and Universities
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Maryland's McDaniel College closing the 'opportunity gap'
Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on...
Tags: Students, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Ben Bernanke, Colleges and Universities, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Joseph E. Welsh, educator
Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...
Tags: Vanderbilt University , Teachers, Parkville, Jesus Christ, Baltimore County
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Baltimore School for the Arts earns first Tony nod, for actress Shalita Grant
The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore School for the Arts can boast its first nomination for a Tony Award -- thanks to graduate Shalita Grant, whose debut Broadway bow has won her a nod for Best Featured Actress in a Play. "Graduates have been nominated for Grammys and Emmy...Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, Primetime Emmy Awards, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards
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