student loans and grants
- The Road to Kindergarten will held at Hammond Middle School on Feb. 9 starting at 6:30 p.m.
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Vocational and technical education deserves greater support and its students more respect than is currently afforded - Carroll Community College has a new grant program to help returning students complete their degree
- This week's reversal on college savings plans demonstrates both the challenge of financing higher education and of finding support for broader tax reforms
- Reservoir High School will have a college information night on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.
- Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County, said she supports President Barack Obama's proposal announced Thursday, Jan. 8 that would make community college tuition free.
- Sojourner-Douglass College has been sued by the owner of its Edgewater campus property for failure to pay rent, according to school officials and the plaintiff's attorney
- Paying for college today has become a complex maze with the potential to stop low and moderate income students and families in their tracks, before a college application is ever submitted.
- President Obama's proposal for universal free tuition at community colleges makes both educational and economic sense
- While our $18 trillion gross federal debt is now larger than America's entire economy, at least as troubling is the nearly $12 trillion in debt that individuals and households have. The statistics are grim. While median assets have declined by a third since 2003 and are below those of 15 other countries, median household debt has nearly tripled during the past 20 years, and the typical American household's debt has exceeded its income since 2000.
- Record competition, a new administration in Annapolis and looming budget cuts have research advocates uneasy about Maryland's stem cell research investment program.
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- My goal is not for bigger loans, or loan forgiveness. It is for colleges to come to their senses and start practicing cost containment.
- Low-income Baltimore residents can get help in applying for energy assistance grants from Baltimore Gas and Electric representatives at an expo on Saturday.
- Maryland's recent move linking Division I coach bonuses to athlete's grades should be extended to college leaders.
- The burden of student debt is a national problem, and it requires a national commitment as well. Students and their families must be able to count on Congress to keep interest rates low, to resist the allure of making money off student loan programs, and to offer opportunities like income-based repayment and public service loan forgiveness programs.
- There is no justification for high per-student government subsidies at elite private universities
- Even with high local unemployment rates in Baltimore and signals from port officials that growth in cargo is likely in coming years, barriers to new truck drivers entering the field have hobbled the industry's efforts to rebuild since the recession, which thinned trucker ranks as cargo volumes diminished, Huesman, Gaumer and others in the industry say.
- The University of Baltimore said Wednesday that it will continue admitting freshman students, opting against scrapping the class altogether in favor of strengthening its first-year program.
- Drug prohibition laws have caused too much harm to be accepted any longer
- The Maryland Education Credit, which was not brought to a vote last year, would attract critical financial assistance for lower- and middle-income Pre-K to 12th grade students at both public and nonpublic schools by awarding up to $15 million in education tax credits for business donations that help students pay for tutoring, tuition, supplies, transportation and special needs services.
- Noting that student loan debt in the U.S. has ballooned to roughly $1 trillion, Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin spoke with students at Bowie State University on Thursday to draw attention to a proposal Democrats will push next week to allow borrowers to refinance their student loans.
- Financial aid professionals shared a few tips to help guide students and their families through the tumultuous waters of their investment in education.
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- Danielle Moser gives tips for parents on how to save for their child's college tuition.
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- Companies should offer student loan repayment assistance, with the state's help
- Students saddled with debt from fraudulent for-profit schools should have a way to challenge the situation in court.
- While Morgan is encountering an obstacle or two on the path toward further developing its research mission to become Maryland's premier public urban comprehensive research university, the payoff to the state from our success is already plainly obvious. The millions we now bring into the state yearly accrue many benefits. This funding is supporting economic activity in the city of Baltimore and statewide, through the impact it has on new business creation, local employment and sales and services.
- While Morgan is encountering an obstacle or two on the path toward further developing its research mission to become Maryland's premier public urban comprehensive research university, the payoff to the state from our success is already plainly obvious. The millions we now bring into the state yearly accrue many benefits. This funding is supporting economic activity in the city of Baltimore and statewide, through the impact it has on new business creation, local employment and sales and services.
- The members of Harford Community College's Board of Trustees voted 5-0 Tuesday evening in favor of a $48.1 million operating budget and a $2.1 million capital budget and capital improvement plan for the 2014-2015 fiscal year.
- Anne Arundel Community College student Ethan Dietrich plans to make his idea for a technology company a reality through his energy, adaptability and passion ¿ and a little help from mentors and investors at the TechStars Patriot Boot Camp at Goldman Sachs in New York.
- The bleachers at Perryville High's athletic stadium were filled to capacity for Thursday's graduation ceremony, which marked the school's 104th commencement
- The three Possidente sisters — Maggie, 11, Ava, 10, and Lucia, 6, have worked for more than a year to create a butterfly garden at Oregon Ridge Park. They have planted dozens of native plants to attrach butterflies, which was funded by a grant from the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab.
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- 20 seniors at Notre Dame Maryland University will be blazing a trail at graduation Saturday. They are the first generations of their families to go to college and are the first seniors to graduate through Notre Dame's Trailblazers program.
- Less than 24 hours before Coppin State introduced its new men's basketball coach, the players were searching for more information about who would lead them out of the Fang Mitchell era.
- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Heather R. Mizeur will propose a plan Monday to make college more affordable and increase need-based financial aid.
