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Mickey L. Burnim was formerly president of Bowie State University, another historically black Maryland college.

By Talia Richman

May 15, 2019

Bill Cosby will be stripped of his honorary degrees from three Maryland schools, University System of Maryland (USM) officials announced Friday in a statement.

By Lauren Lumpkin

Jun 22, 2018

Mickey L. Burnim, who served as Bowie State University president for more than a decade, will be the interim president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

By Lauren Lumpkin

Jun 11, 2018

Juliette B. Bell said in a letter to the campus community that she wants to pursue other passions and spend more quality time with her family, including her five grandchildren.

By Talia Richman

Feb 13, 2018

Former college student Davonta Braxton is charged with killing a classmate at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore

By Tim Prudente

Oct 20, 2017

Morgan and Coppin state universities and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have joined a

By Tim Prudente

Feb 20, 2017

As Corey Witherspoon cradled a senior who had just been stabbed in the heart at Baltimore's Renaissance Academy High School, the boy's mentor tried to stop the bleeding with his hands. He screamed: "Fight. You can make it. You'd better keep breathing!" Those words became the unofficial mantra for Renaissance's Class of 2016, a group that endured so much trauma last year, perhaps the toughest year ever for the school, or any school.

Researchers at Frostburg State University and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore have formed partnerships with medical marijuana companies to study the science behind using pot as medicine.

By Scott Dance

Dec 25, 2015

Fifteen years after Maryland committed to enhance its historically black institutions (HBIs) through a partnership agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and after many years of litigation and mediation, the state has proposed a "remedy" ostensibly designed to eliminate the vestiges of de jure era segregation found to still exist in Maryland's higher education system. Rather than offering programmatic enhancements that would support our efforts to bring

Tiana Jones and Demarkis Cooper are helping bring notice to the school's Professional Golf Management program. It is one of 19 accredited by the PGA of America and the only one at a historically black university.

By Don Markus

Jun 7, 2015

Parents urged to talk about drinking in college to avoid death, accidents

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents meets in Baltimore Wednesday to consider raising tuition at state colleges.

By Pamela Wood

May 6, 2015

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore said on Thursday it has its first individual donor to a scholarship fund honoring the late professional golf pioneer Charlie Sifford.

By Joe Burris

Mar 26, 2015

Visiting Frostburg State became the first Division III men's college lacrosse team to reach 6-0 this season by winning, 12-4, over Lycoming on Wednesday.

News and events around Baltimore County

Coppin State University suffered a $2.5 million revenue shortfall this year because of a dip in enrollment, and school officials said Tuesday that the deficit is being offset with personnel changes and cost-saving measures rather than tuition increases.

There were few surprises for local colleges and universities in the oft-quoted U.S. News and World Report annual rankings released Tuesday.

University System of Maryland institutions have had mixed success in improving the graduation rates of minority and low-income students, according to an annual progress report released this week.

More than from any other school district in the state, Baltimore students' test scores have pushed them into noncredit remedial courses that they must take before college-level classes, according to new data from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

This was the promise: No longer would African-Americans be forced to pick up their meals from the back door of restaurants. No longer would they need to fear being unable to find lodgings on their way home from a trip.

Now 23 years old, Ian Chiles -- a 7-foot-2, 260-pound center at Morgan State for the last four seasons -- has spent the past month and a half practicing jump shots in workouts for teams as he prepares for Thursday's NBA draft.

As the work begins to remedy what a federal judge ruled were persistent segregative policies that hurt Maryland's historically black universities, the process is expected to be lengthy, expensive, and potentially contentious.

The SAT, that anxiety-provoking test that has long been a college application requirement, is being redesigned to focus more on classroom learning and less on brain teasers.

Maryland State Police reiterated their call Wednesday for witnesses to come forward in the unsolved slaying of a University of Maryland, Eastern Shore student a year ago.

A restaurant/sports bar in Portsmouth, Va., where Roger Browns lives bears his name. Brown, a onetime 300-pound All Pro defensive tackle, also owns establishments in Williamsburg and Newport News. On the menu is a club sandwich called the "Fearsome Foursome," a nod to the nickname given the celebrated defensive lines on which Brown played in both Detroit and L.A.

UMBC men's basketball coach Aki Thomas signs two-year extension

State officials and attorneys representing Maryland's historically black colleges and universities will head to mediation to resolve the remnants of a legal battle spurred by the institutions' complaint that the state hasn't done enough to help them overcome segregation-era policies.

Closing or transferring academic programs will not integrate Maryland's historically black colleges.

Decision in discrimination lawsuit represents a major victory for the state's historically black universities but leaves the question of what happens next unresolved

UMES is the most integrated of any of the state's historically black schools, because of an alliance with nearby Salisbury University.

Presidents of the state's historically black colleges and universities were cautiously optimistic Tuesday that a recent federal court ruling ordering remedies for persistent segregative policies in Maryland higher education would result in new opportunities and resources for their campuses

With the launch of two high-profile rocket missions from Wallops Island this month, Maryland's future as a gateway to outer space looks bright

A student at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore was shot and wounded off-campus early Sunday morning, according to a university spokesman.

On Wednesday in Atlanta, Art Shell will be honored for his time at Maryland State -- now known as UMES -- with his third Hall of Fame enshrinement.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore plans to spend $60,000 on bulletproof whiteboards.

Morgan State is trying to raise $300,000 to give 300 undergraduates an emergency scholarship after their parents were unexpectedly denied federal education loans.

Mortimer H. Neufville, who's been leading an academic and administrative overhaul of Coppin State University as its interim president, was officially named to the post Monday.

Teacher preparation programs in the nation and Maryland are "an industry of mediocrity" that are failing to give young teachers the skills to be successful in the classroom, according to a long-awaited report by a national research advocacy group.