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A professors' group at Coppin State University on Monday said it shared a review committee's improvement goals for the traditionally black college, but questioned why the reviewers didn't address certain funding issues nor a perceived lack of oversight by school system leaders

The college has suffered a painful setback with the departure of President Urgo, but its appeal for students remains unchanged

Even with temperatures hovering in the 90s Thursday afternoon, state and local dignitaries crowded under a tent to celebrate the construction of Harford Community College's Towson University in Northeastern Maryland facility.

Segregation, state's neglect at heart of Coppin State University's 'mess'

An attorney representing Maryland argued Thursday that the Atlantic Coast Conference has left the university's athletic department with a vast budget "hole" by improperly withholding millions of dollars in shared conference revenues after the school decided to join the Big Ten.

All you need to know about Maryland government: The open meetings board meets in secret.

A report to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents makes clear that Coppin State needs to overhaul its academics, admissions and administration if it is to fulfill its mission.

The Maryland university system's Board of Regents an overall 2.4 percent increase in tuition and fees for fiscal year 2014 and expressed optimism about the future of Baltimore's Coppin State University.

Coppin State University should enroll higher-caliber freshmen, according to a report being presented Wednesday

A Pikesville man has filed an Open Meetings Act violation complaint against the Baltimore County Council, alleging that citizens didn't get notice of a meeting where residents could testify about the county's new stormwater fee.

Admit Coppin State University is a failed institution and close it

Richard E. "Dick" Hug, a prominent businessman, former University System of Maryland Regent and active fundraiser for Republican Party candidates, died on Saturday. He was 78.

Loeschke made the right decisions regarding athletics, says board of Towson University Foundation

How can Towson University spend so much on TV ads if it's too broke for baseball and soccer?

Coppin State University is moving forward with an $80 million Science and Technology Center despite concerns that the school will not have enough money to operate the building.

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held May 30 to celebrate the construction of Towson University's satellite classroom building at Harford Community College.

The Towson University Board of Visitors fully supports President Loeschke's leadership.

Maryland comptroller says Loeschke misled public, tarnished school's reputation in handling of sports cuts

New laws passed by the Maryland General Assembly late last week would put stricter penalties and an element of public-shaming behind the state's open meetings laws

Coppin State students and alumni testified before a special committee Thursday, telling the panel about problems at the university.

Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school facility is complicated and thoughtful.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to put up $300,000 in taxpayer's money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday by some legislators and key Maryland fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented, unfair to other college sports programs and inappropriate.

O'Malley's effort to save Towson's baseball team may achieve a welcome result, but it sets a damaging precedent.

Barely a week after the group made national news for advocating for racial segregation at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Towson University's White Student Union is again drawing attention for plans to conduct nighttime patrols to watch for crime.

The disbanding of the baseball and men's soccer teams made national news and has blown up into the biggest challenge of Maravene Loeschke's 18-month tenure as Towson's leader. Last week the controversy reached Annapolis, where Gov. Martin O'Malley and Comptroller Peter Franchot rebuked her decision and demanded she appear before them in two weeks to explain her actions.

Coppin State's transition from a college to a university has left its students behind.

The Harford Community College Board of Trustees voted Tuesday night in their monthly meeting to allow alcoholic beverages at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union Arena in a pilot program for two upcoming concerts in the spring

Maryland can give a little help to college students by offering tax holidays for textbooks purchases

Prominent alums and parents had spent six months fighting the decision

Two years after Dr. Mark Geier came under fire and lost his Maryland medical license for using a controversial treatment on autistic patients, the state Board of Physicians has suspended the medical license of his business partner, alleging he began writing the same dangerous prescriptions for Geier's patients.

Compliance board admonishes board for flimsy excuses but has no power to levy punishment

Maryland has 19,413 openings for computer security professionals, most of them in Baltimore — let's start training for these jobs

University of Maryland University College possibly overpaid $3.3 million to a marketing contractor, according to state auditors, in an investigation just a month before the school's president was placed on indefinite leave and abruptly resigned.

Coppin State University cannot pay its adjunct professors on time this month, the latest in a string of problems for the embattled college.

Members of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees learned during a recent meeting that the Maryland Board of Public Works had approved a University System of Maryland project to build a facility on the HCC campus which would allow Harford County resident students to take Towson University courses.

Maryland's fight to get out of its $52 million exit fee for leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2014 took an unpleasant - but not unexpected - turn Monday when a North Carolina judge refused to throw the school's countersuit out of court.

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Conflict between Morgan's Board of Regents and President David Wilson raises questions about whether the school's governing body can adapt to changing times