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Op-ed
If Baltimore needs a model for creating vocational education programs, officials need to go no further than Green Street Academy charter school.
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The Middle States Commission on Higher Education's decision is the latest development in the aftermath of football player Jordan McNair’s death in June 2018.
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Education
Alphonso David was named Tuesday as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ-rights organization in the U.S.
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Carroll County News
An off-duty Baltimore City firefighter saved a Manchester teen after his car crashed into a tree in Hampstead.
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Politics
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wants an investigation of how the University of Maryland handled an outbreak of adenovirus that left one student dead.
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Education
University of Maryland System Chancellor Robert L. Caret decided not to seek another five-year contract.
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Education
he University System of Maryland’s chancellor on Wednesday announced the 20-person committee that will search for the next president of the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Howard County
Howard Community College opened its doors in 1970, the 14th community college in the state of Maryland. April is National Community College Month.
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Obituaries
Stanley Plumly, Maryland’s former poet laureate and a respected University of Maryland faculty member who taught creative writing, died of complications of multiple myeloma April 11 at his Frederick home. He was 79.
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Obituaries
Former Evening Sun sports reporter and columnist Eunetta T. Boone changed careers and became a successful Hollywood TV producer.
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Obituaries
Founder of successful businesses turned to philanthropy, investing in Baltimore's future
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Carroll County Education
Hena Shami is part of 4 percent of Carroll County Public Schools staff that is not Caucasian. The 26-year-old South Carroll High School chemistry teacher is a first-generation American, who was born in Maryland to a Muslim Pakistani family, and loves her students.
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Education
Maryland Institute College of Art President Samuel Hoi apologized publicly Thursday for the school’s history of racist admission policies, a move prompted by a student’s recent exhibit on the often hidden experience of black artists at the college.
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Politics
Arguing University of Maryland officials placed athletics over academics last year following the death of football player Jordan McNair, state lawmakers in Annapolis are now pushing legislation to overhaul the university system’s Board of Regents.
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Carroll County News
The Historical Society of Mount Airy has announced its inductees into the Mount Airy Hall of Fame to make up the Class of 2019: Arnold William. “Bill” Butts, Wayne Donald Esworthy, Mary Elizabeth Hushour, Francesco “Frank” Illiano and Dr. Bruce John Walz.
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Baltimore City
A nonprofit, called Beat The Streets Baltimore, aims to save Baltimore kids by resurrecting the sport of wrestling. The young league partners with Banneker Blake and about a dozen other city schools to give kids a place to play a sport, get academic help and develop character.
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Obituaries
Donald N. Langenberg, a career academic who during his 12 years as chancellor oversaw 11 state colleges and universities including the University of Maryland, College Park, and whose budget doubled to $2.7 billion, died Jan. 25 from an aortic aneurysm at his Dickeyville home. He was 86.
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Op-ed
Md. legislators: Like most Marylanders, we were shocked by the tone deaf decision made by the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents last fall to place athletics above academics following the tragic death of Jordan McNair at UMD. Our bill should prevent similar mistakes.
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Education
University of Maryland President Wallace Loh will remain at the helm of the state flagship through June 2020, a reversal that comes three months after he announced plans to retire at the end of this school year.
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The University System of Maryland Board of Regents will discuss its search for a new president at the University of Maryland, College Park during a special meeting on Wednesday, the system announced Tuesday.
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Three months after University of Maryland President Wallace Loh announced his pending retirement in the wake of the death of football player Jordan McNair, and less than six months before his departure, the University System of Maryland has not formed a search committee to find his replacement.
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Crime
University of Maryland's campus police have charged Luke William Charla, 20, and Nicholas Michael Stehman, 20, with fourth-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit fourth-degree burglary and malicious destruction of property.
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Science
Antietam Blush is the first apple bred specifically for Maryland, patented by the University of Maryland, College Park. But there are still many years to go before consumers can take a bite.
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Howard County
A man collapsed and died this week at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. No foul play is suspected, campus police said.
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Health
At least 40 cases of adenovirus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park. One person was still hospitalized as of Tuesday.
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Maryland
Six months later, the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom remains a defining event, for survivors, of course, but also the Annapolis community and the journalism profession.
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At least 35 cases of adenovirus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park as of Wednesday, according to the university. That’s five more than were reported a week ago.
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Op-ed
If our state flagship university is truly interested in investing in tomorrow’s scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators, it can start by demonstrating a stronger commitment to its current student body by providing consistently vigilant leadership and proper standards of living.
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Education
The virus, which led to the death of a freshman in November, has hospitalized at least eight people, according to information from the University Health Center.
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Politics
Members of the state’s congressional delegation have expressed concerns to top officials of the University System of Maryland about how it handled the University of Maryland, College Park, football program after the heatstroke death of a Terrapins player.
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Education
On Friday, the University of Maryland College Park said the CDC has confirmed more cases of the adenovirus after conducted tests on specimens.
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The University of Maryland, College Park plans to improve air conditioning and ventilation in at least two dorms to prevent mold infestations like the one that caused the evacuation of Elkton Hall this semester.
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Education
As the University of Maryland, College Park faces down back-to-back health crises, students and parents are complaining that the institution hasn’t been aggressive enough to stem the spread of mold and disease on campus.
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Health
A freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, died Sunday of complications from adenovirus, and her family is questioning whether the university — which has seen several cases of the illness — could have done more to prevent her death.
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Obituaries
Dr. Michael E. Kolakolwski Jr., a longtime Glen Burnie dentist whose hobbies included reading and gardening, died Nov. 10 from heart failure at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He was 85.
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Education
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, one of the university’s leading boosters, said Wednesday that “there’s fault everywhere around” for the the developments that lead to the ouster of UM football coach DJ Durkin and the resignation of the chairman of the regents.
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Education
A retired Lockheed Martin executive will assume leadership of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, facing an uphill battle to regain public trust after the way the governing body handled the investigations into the death of 19-year-old football player Jordan McNair.
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Op-ed
Jordan McNair and his family deserve justice and accountability from University of Maryland leadership. So do Lt. Richard Collins III and his family. So do all UMD students, staff and alumni. Yet President Wallace Loh and his administrators have consistently provided neither.
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Brendan Iribe, the virtual reality pioneer whose name will grace a new $152 million computer science building opening at the University of Maryland College Park next year, has written Gov. Larry Hogan to express his dismay over the Board of Regents and support for UMD President Loh.
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