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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, Bowie State University, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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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: Awards and Prizes, Washington College (Maryland), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Colleges and Universities, Manhattan (New York City)
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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: High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Students
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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: University of Maryland, College Park, Coppin State University, Towson University, Colleges and Universities, Budgets and Budgeting
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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: Coppin State University, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University System of Maryland
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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: Poverty, Colleges and Universities, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Schools
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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: Arne Duncan, Stanford University, Colleges and Universities, William E. Lori, Duke 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: University of Maryland, College Park, Employment Opportunities, Philosophy, Towson University, Medical Specialization
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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, Annapolis, U.S. Congress, Culture, Barack Obama
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College Lines
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH BRADFORD: Emily Angel of Stewartstown, Pa, was expected to graduate Sunday, April 28, from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY: Meredith Riddle, D.O.,...Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Engineering, Habitat for Humanity International, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Havre de Grace
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Mark D. Sokolik, corporate attorney, formerly of Hunt Valley
Mark D. Sokolik, a corporate lawyer remembered as a fitness and music enthusiast, died last week after complications from a fall. He was 30. A former Hunt Valley resident who attended Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Mr. Sokolik went on to graduate from the...
Tags: Music, Ethics, Colleges and Universities, Values, University of Baltimore
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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: Timonium, Colleges and Universities, Culture, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Jesus Christ
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