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- 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.
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- Kylee Koon, of Westminster, received the Master of Science in acupuncture degree from National University of Health Sciences, Lombard, Illinois, during the
- Civil Rights movement leader The Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian will visit Harford Community College on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 6:30 PM in the Chesapeake Center Dining Rooms.
- 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.
- It seems to me that even in the short time between now and the 2018 primary in June, the Carroll County Democratic Central Committee has the best opportunity in years to begin to offer Carroll countians an alternative to Trumpism.
- 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.
- A university that divests from fossil fuels is only hurting its students.
- With the New Year approaching, Carroll Community College’s Board of Trustees will add a new member as it looks forward to 2018.
- From Confederate statues to NFL player protests to private schools students dressing up as prisoners, issues of race threaded through the news of 2017.
- Yes, America’s got talent—but not enough of it. It needs to import it. A merit-based immigration system for a merit-based society will enhance our economic security and significantly boost our competitiveness. The president is right on the money with this part of his immigration.
- Several other Maryland universities are also subject to federal investigation for their handling of sexual violence on campus.
- Baltimore-based Laureate Education Inc., operator of private, for-profit universities, said it will sell its stake in its Chinese university.
- Frederick H. Fusting, who taught marketing at Loyola University Maryland and was a past executive of a medical publishing house, died of cancer Dec. 22 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
- Recently, The Johns Hopkins University made the decision to divest thermal coal from its endowment. While we commend this step away from the fossil fuel industry, this is just delaying the need for future divestment.
- M. Grant Gross Jr., a retired oceanographer and former director of the Chesapeake Institute, died Sunday from heart disease at Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. He was 84.
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- The Marching Lions, the marching band and drumline at Maple Elementary School in Cambridge, will perform alongside the Ravens Marching Band during the Ravens face-off against the Indianapolis.
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- Morgan State improperly certified the eligibility of 94 student-athletes in 10 sports and erroneously provided financial aid to student-athletes in nine sports for four years, according to findings by an NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions panel.
- A group of charter schools filed a lawsuit in 2015, alleging that the district's funding formula for charters violates state law.
- Despite pledges to rein in tuition increases and boost enrollment, Harford Community College's leadership appears to have little progress on either.
- The Bears went 1-10 this season, finishing last in the MEAC.
- University President Kurt Schmoke's decision to invite DeVos launched protests and petitions.
- Johns Hopkins' BLocal is off to an impressive start - and deserves to be copied.
- The coalition of 10 universities includes UMBC and Johns Hopkins.
- Beginning next fall, students attending Howard or Prince George's Community colleges can take courses at the Laurel College Center as part of Bowie State’s bachelor’s degree in business administration.
- Parents and staff say William Pinderhughes Elementary/Middle School operates as an anchor in the Sandtown-Winchester community.
- Baltimore mayor and local college officals launch program to provide free college tuition to Baltimore public school graduates.
- Stewart J. Greenebaum, the Baltimore-based developer who with his wife, Marlene, endowed the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, died Sunday from complications from a stroke at Sinai Hospital.
- Just because UB has suffered financial setbacks, don't assume it's not a good school.
- University of Maryland and Capital One on Tuesday announced a partnership to develop a workforce pipeline in data analytics, machine learning and cyber security.
- Harford Community College officials present operating and capital budgets Tuesday for fiscal 2019, operating budget includes $3.52 tuition increase, 20 percent fee rate remains the same.
- The card competition is in its second year, and winners receive a $150 prize. The winner’s design is used on the college’s digital and printed cards that go out each year.
- Johns Hopkins University's board voted to divest from investments in companies that produce coal for power
- County Executive Allan Kittleman began the fiscal 2019 budget cycle on a somewhat somber note Monday night at the first budget public hearing, telling the community it was “not going to be an easy year for us."
- A student reported a sexual assault at a Johns Hopkins University fraternity house.
- Kevin Sowers on Monday was named the new president of The Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education listed Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels' $1.3 million salary among the top 30 among private institution presidents.
- When we ban literature that reflects the realities of many students’ lives, we say to them that their voices and experiences do not matter. That they do not matter.
- Teens and law enforcement officials met in Baltimore on Saturday to discuss best practices for handling police encounters as part of the Greater Baltimore Urban League's Saturday Leadership Program.