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- The following local students graduated from Gettysburg College during its 184th commencement ceremony: Erin Brault, of Sykesville, Bachelor of Arts, art
- Kiley Allen, of Sykesville, was named to the honor roll for the fall 2018 semester at the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. In most colleges, students must
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International students contribute about $40 billion to our economy annually, supporting 455,000 jobs. America hosts the most international students in the world. Given the current political climate in Washington toward immigrants and visitors, those students are beginning to look elsewhere. - A shooting is still the rarest of events for a school, but attacks last spring in Maryland and Florida have prompted school districts across the state to take more steps to prevent such a tragedy.
- 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.
- Rebecca Margaret Levenstein, of Woodbine, graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the nursing program at Jefferson College of Health Sciences, Roanoke,
- Adam Lovellette spent nearly 15 years at Gerstell Academy. Over that time, he’s watched the school grow and change — something he paralleled over his years as well.
- The following local students at the made the dean's list for the fall semester at Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York: Daniel Honeycutt, of
- ESPN's "Baltimore Boys" is an outstanding sports film. But its real power is the sociology and sensitivity it brings to this saga of achievement that started at Dunbar High.
- Roger L. Griffin Jr., 84, a retired mechanical engineer and business owner, died Monday.
- Centennial High School graduates Clarissa Santori, 20, and Gary Tse, 18, filmed their Jeopardy episodes for the two-week tournament alongside 13 other contestants last month in Los Angeles. Quarterfinals began on Monday, with Santori's and Tse's episodes expected to air on WBFF-TV on Wednesday, Feb. 15 and Friday, Feb. 17, respectively.
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- Nearly 400 members of the Bel Air High School Class of 2016 graduated Thursday night.
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- The owner of the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday named a new leader of Maryland's 179-year-old news organization, after transferring the previous publisher to California to head the L.A. Times.
- Peter C. Murrell Jr., an educational psychologist and a professor or urban education at Loyola University of Maryland where he was founding dean of the School of Education, died Oct. 25 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Boston. He was 63.
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- Jessica Friend and John Fisher, both of Columbia, are engaged to be married
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- If we expand Job Corps by a factor of 25, we could re-educate millions of dropouts and save others from Freddie Gray's fate. We would offer a road to adulthood for young Americans who now don't see any road to a future that isn't about drugs, prison or dying in the street.
- Philip D. Snodgrass, who was an assistant general counsel at the National Federation of Federal Employees and a 2005 graduate of Dulaney High School, was killed.
- For a growing number of freshman applicants to universities in Maryland and across the country, it's a second chance – denied admission for the fall, they are offered a slot in the spring semester, often with conditions attached.
- The job market is so terrible for young adults — and has been now for years — that it's reached crisis proportions, according to a new report from the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
- As record heat baked Baltimore, a wave of violence unfurled across the city: Six shootings and eight people wounded over a period of less than eight hours.
- Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot says he will not run for governor and will instead seek a third term in his current post.
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- Peter Marvit, a 51-year-old scientist who sang with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and sought to widen music education opportunities for city students, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital after he was shot near his Northeast Baltimore home last Monday night. He had been returning home from a choral rehearsal.
- Students at the University of Maryland have launched a petition calling on the college to boot Chick-fil-A off the College Park campus, after the president of the fast food chain said he opposes gay marriage.
- Baltimore's fledging "Hire One Youth" effort encourages businesses to employ high school students and other young adults for the summer.
- College graduates face high unemployment, depressed wages and loads of debt.
