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New students moved into Goucher College Saturday. Many said they were not concerned about the school eliminating majors.

Maryland football player’s death raises broad questions.

Dr. Sydney Cousin, who served 25 years with Howard County public schools, including a stint as superintendent, dies.

A proposal by former Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson in May 2017 that would have placed the school’s athletic training staff under the supervision of the university’s medical school in Baltimore was never implemented.

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents will meet Friday to discuss Jordan McNair's death.

Dr. Moody DeW. Wharam Jr., a pioneering Johns Hopkins Hospital radiation oncologist, died Aug. 10 from amyotropic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at Franklin Square Medical Center. The former longtime Timonium resident who was living in Essex was 77.

Students interested in cybersecurity or computer science can still apply for the accelerated program.

Opening more than six decades after Brown vs. Board of Education, University Charter School is Sumter County, Alabama's first integrated school.

Math majors at Goucher College will soon be a thing of the past.

The Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office is closely monitoring the football scandal at the University of Maryland following the heatstroke death of a 19-year-old offensive lineman.

Some Baltimore City Council members are asking the police department to stop deploying a small group of officers to patrol the areas around the Johns Hopkins institutions in East Baltimore.

A total of $59,000 in funding for faculty-student summer research projects has been awarded to 17 Bridgewater College students who will live and work at the

Towson University President Kim Schatzel was honored this past weekend for initiatives aimed at making the school a more integral part of the Baltimore region.

The third-year football coach and three other staff members have been placed on leave pending a review prompted by death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair.

If preserving a brick-and-mortar building is the primary motivation to pursue a charter school, then it will be doomed to fail.

First Generation College Bound Inc., a Laurel-based nonprofit provides support to low-income high school students to help them achieve their goal of attending college.

The possibility of a charter school in the former North Carroll High School building — a plan that was proposed July 30 — continues to be contemplated by county leaders and community members alike, with steps beginning to be taken, though numerous questions still remain.

The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $3 million grant by the Scripps Howard Foundation to start its first investigative journalism center.

Many in the North Carroll High School community and I are frustrated with the entire situation, but an idea for a charter school may be the best we have at this time. I do believe that the current environment in Carroll may be more welcoming to a charter school and it is worth a shot.

Dr. Edson Albuquerque, a University of Maryland epidemiology and public health professor and scientist, died of an embolism July 22 at the age of 82.

The workout from which University of Maryland offensive lineman Jordan McNair struggled to recover was the former McDonogh star’s first with the team in over a month, according to a review of the football team’s participation logs obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

Charles H. Houston Jr., a retired Morgan State University lecturer of American history who kept the legacy of his father's contribution to the civil rights movement alive, died July 15 from Parkinson's disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Pigtown resident was 74.

Carroll Community College is one year away from unveiling its inaugural sports teams, and now those teams have coaches.

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The following local residents were named to the spring 2018 dean's list at William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia: Sarah Brown, of Finksburg; Emma Sutovich, of

We’re not opposed to a public charter school in Carroll County. In fact, we think it would be welcomed by many county residents. But the process to opening a charter school is not a simple one, nor should it be expected to result in a windfall of funding for public schools.

An email blast Friday afternoon gave Hampstead residents short notice of a community meeting hosted by Commissioner Doug Howard, R-District 5, on Monday night to brainstorm the future of North Carroll High School. And Howard’s idea, which he presented to an audience of about 30 people...

Retired engineering executive had a lengthy career with Westinghouse and Northrop Grumman and enjoyed flying.

The Harford County Education Foundation will host a Welcome Reception for the county’s new superintendent of public schools Dr. Sean Bulson on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Rockfield Manor in Bel Air from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Harford Community College, FreeState ChallegNGe provide workforce training

Howard Community College had offered the STARTALK program since 2007, that allows for high school students to enroll in a five-week intensive language course and receive college credit.

Dr. William B. Allen, a retired Michigan State professor and dean who lives in Havre de Grace lead a group of 45 teachers on a week-long tour of key sites in the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Alabama, Memphis and Little Rock, Ark.

Some colleges are being pressured to cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid public outcries over the separation of migrant families along the nation's southern border.

Bob Bowman, the former head of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club and longtime coach of Michael Phelps, said on Monday that he regrets his "exercise of poor judgment" in 2011. He was responding to a swimmer's claim that he sent her inappropriate messages in 2011.

Seven new members will be inducted into the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 5 during the school’s homecoming.

Harford Community College, the county government and area businesses are partnering on a feasibility study to develop an applied technology center on the Route 40 corridor in the southern part of the county.

Rebecca Margaret Levenstein, of Woodbine, graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the nursing program at Jefferson College of Health Sciences, Roanoke,

To begin to rectify its long history of bad decisions, Hopkins should work to cut ties to the Homeland Security and Defense departments and immediately terminate all contracts with ICE — and donate the money received from such contracts to Baltimore’s immigration legal defense fund.

On Monday, Gov. Larry Hogan announced several initiatives aimed at both relieving student debt and making getting a college education more affordable. The expansion of the SmartBuy housing program caught our attention.

Educator was a graduate of Columbia University and headed the Community College of Baltimore City.

Spotlighting women in Baltimore.

Johns Hopkins University has been handing out Spruce Up grants for the past five years to communities surrounding its Homewood campus in an effort to improve quality of life for those on and off campus.

The head of the University System of Maryland received nearly $800,000 in compensation for fiscal year 2017. That included a controversial, one-time $75,000 bonus.

The Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics, one of the largest bioethics centers globally, announced Thursday that it has received one of its biggest gifts, $15 million to be used to support education and training.

A Morgan State University professor has recruited six students for the school’s inaugural “Preservation in Practice” program. It's part of an effort to increase the number of African Americans in historic preservation, architecture and urban planning.

Even after Baltimore County's school board denied its application, proposed Watershed Public Charter School continues to try to open in the northwestern part of the county.

Maryland insurers say the Trump Administration's announcement lat weekend that it will cut subsidies under Obamacare that helped to pay for the sickest patients destabilizes market.

Former Winters Mill basketball standout Keon Claiborne is set to transfer to Chowan University in North Carolina to continue his career at the Division II level.

The deadline to apply for the Carroll Promise Scholarship, which could allow just-graduated students to qualify for up to $5,000 in tuition assistance to attend Carroll Community College, is July 13.

There has been much ado over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist who won the Democratic Party primary for a New York congressional seat last week. Yet this isn’t the first time a major party has nominated a candidate who believes in Medicare and higher education for all.