colleges and universities

The president’s recent call for more “vocational schools,” while misguided, does highlight two important issues in higher education: the increased need for both middle skills training and for more awareness of the expansive workforce development role that community colleges play.

Hopkins dean cited "diminished enrollments, faculty turnover and retirements, and a lack of identity and programmatic focus" as reasons for ending the program.

Gov. Larry Hogan's eagerness to settle the long-running litigation over Maryland's HBCUs is welcome, but resolving the issues that underlie it will be difficult.

The following local students have been named to the dean's list at West Virginia University for the fall 2017 semester: Blake Baderian, Finksburg, business;

The followings local students were named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Bridgewater College, in Virginia: Kayla Boswell, a first-year student

In a letter to Del. Cheryl Glenn, chair of the of the state’s legislative black caucus, the governor’s chief legal counsel Robert Scholz said Hogan is willing to discuss using $100 million to supplement the state’s support for HBCUs over a ten-year period.

William A. Anderson, a retired compliance officer for the state Department of Education and talented musician who had backed up such legends as James Brown, Fats Domino, Little Richard, died Jan. 31 from complications of a stroke at his Randallstown home. He was 79.

University of Maryland president should put as much effort into funding diversity as he does painting the school's failures in a positive light.

University of Maryland President Loh is falling short on diversity goals - but not on excuses.

San Francisco-based Spin, a dockless bike share company, has launched at Towson University and Goucher College.

David Eisenhauer of Columbia, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, abduction and concealing a dead body just before jury selection began Monday in the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell of Blacksburg, Va.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers  testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with one-to-one devices.

On Saturday, UMBC lost to Vermont as it celebrated the opening of the $85 million Event Center, a gleaming new 5,000-seat arena that replaces the 45-year-old Retriever Activities Center.

Amid years of declining enrollment, university president Kurt Schmoke was faced this year with closing a more than $4 million budget gap.

UMD is one of the most diverse flagships in the nation. A Baltimore Sun article last week conveys a different impression, however: “Black Student Enrollment Lags at the University of Maryland.” But the yardstick used by the paper is the wrong one for three reasons.

Towson University president: Proud of what this school is doing to be more inclusive.

Walter K. Sherwin Jr., a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland, College Park, who established the Ancient Studies Department, died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer at his Charlestown retirement community home. He was 79.

From his birthplace in the Eastern Shore to Baltimore and Washington, where he spent his last years, here’s a list of lectures, performances, exhibits and discussions happening throughout the region to celebrate Douglass’ legacy on his 200th birthday.

After two years of construction, the UMBC Event Center will make its debut on Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. with a men's basketball game against the Vermont Catamounts.

Blame the challenges facing black high school students for the difficulty of attracting minority students to College Park.

Saanvi and Alisa are two of the five members of an all-girls robotics team that participates in local competitions for the FIRST Lego League. In December, the girls won a 30-team competition at Hammond High School, where they were one of only a handful of all-female teams.

College Park isn't meeting the needs of Maryland's African American students - and tuition costs may be part of the problem.

Harford County Public Schools has taken an aggressive approach to recruiting new teachers, especially teachers of color, and it has made strides in those areas, but it faces a shrinking pool of applicants for teaching positions, an issue that affects school districts across the state and nation.

State flagship universities across the U.S. are enrolling disproportionately few black students. UMD, College Park represents one of the most stark examples of the disparity.

Lois Roeder died at age 85.

Towson University and the Maryland National Guard signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at fostering workforce development in cyber security.

The University of Baltimore has added protections to student data that state auditors found had been left exposed.

The University of Maryland, College Park has set aside $3.8 million for new diversity measures following the killing of a black Bowie State University student by a white UM student on campus last May, Maryland President Wallace Loh said this week.

Formerly a cafeteria worker, Minnie Hargrow worked for four Johns Hopkins University presidents

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students are among many across Maryland that are growing fish and plants in school-based aquaculture programs.

The year 2018 will reveal whether last year’s political transition from the status quo is here to stay, says Rachel Marsden.

John M. Purnell, a veteran reporter who had worked for Eastern Shore newspapers and earlier for The Palm Beach Post, died Thursday from undetermined causes at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The West Ocean City resident was 73.

The Maryland House and Senate overturned the governor's veto of a bill that removes the box from a college admissions application that asks potential students if they have ever been arrested or been convicted of a crime. The bill does not differentiate between violent and non-violent criminals.

Fort McHenry will close. You can still tour the Naval Academy, but not its museum. If, like two indicted Baltimore police detectives, you are scheduled for trial at U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Monday, the wheels of justice will grind on despite the federal government shutdown.

Towson American Legion to raise funds for scholarship fund set up in Towson native's honor

For some at McDaniel College, Jan Term was a chance to take a new type of class, be it one that teaches how to cope with stress or one that thrust students into the theater experience.

The six women who were nursing students at Harford Community College last semester and went to Narva, Estonia, to teach HIV prevention, had an opportunity this week to share their experiences with Bel Air town officials.

Morgan's claims of racial bias and inadequate funding don't hold up to scrutiny.

The renowned investor William H. “Bill” Miller III will donate $75 million to Johns Hopkins University’s philosophy department, setting a record for gifts to the university’s humanities departments.

As Morgan State University nears the end of its historic 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to review some of the milestones in its development and acknowledge how a dual system of higher education in Maryland has adversely affected higher education in the state today.

Rising crime, unheated schools and a woman in a hospital gown being dumped at a bus stop on a freezing night: At a time when Baltimore is competing with more than 200 cities for Amazon's second headquarters, the last thing the city needed was for such images to go viral.

Neighborhoods in school

Kylee Koon, of Westminster, received the Master of Science in acupuncture degree from National University of Health Sciences, Lombard, Illinois, during the

Baltimore-based Laureate Education agrees to sell its university in Morocco.

HCC nursing students traveled to Narva, Estonia, to teach high school students about the importance of safe sex, HIV prevention.

The December 2017 Nursing Class Pinning Ceremony for 46 Harford Community College associate degree nursing graduates was held in the Amoss Center on December 19, 2017.

Donald Trump may be dumb, but he's still brilliant at conning people, says Robert Reich.

University of Maryland, Baltimore is pumping $1.5 million into a program that encourages employees to buy homes in neighborhoods surrounding the institution’s West Baltimore academic and medical campuses.

The first athletic squads to prowl the fields of Carroll Community College will be known as the Lynx, thanks to a suggestion from a 2014 Winters Mill High School graduate attending the college.

From agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse.