Higher education

A documentary about Jim Henson, who began his career as a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, is coming to Disney+ next month.

The student protests that have been sweeping college campuses nationwide landed at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.

Fewer than half of city graduates go to college, but the Ravens, the team’s owner and M&T Bank want to change that.

Ninety-nine percent of Goucher College students get financial aid or scholarships of some kind, its president said.

St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County agreed to a long list of changes prescribed by the U.S. Department of Justice, but experts say true reform requires a culture change.

The University of Maryland, College Park, on Tuesday announced the creation of its Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland.

The wooded campus of Goucher College was once part of one of the largest plantations in the state of Maryland, where the Ridgely family enslaved hundreds of Black Marylanders. Three groups with a stake in the Ridgely plantation reunited this month for a descendant engagement symposium.

The Caucus of African American Leaders unanimously voted to ask that two bridges in the state, including the Francis Scott Key Bridge, be renamed.

Morgan State is increasing security measures to prevent violence on campus since the shooting in October.

A fraternity is suing the University of Maryland over its suspension of Greek life on campus, saying school administrators forced students to undergo mandatory interrogations as part of an investigation or face discipline.

Swimmers could be entitled to $180,000 or $60,000 each as part of a settlement approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday.

Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways that he didn't want anybody to know about, Tom Minkin, his friend and longest-serving legal associate, says.

Maryland officials are set to pay $4.1 million to two groups of individuals identified from a Title IX investigation into the University of Maryland Baltimore County, which was just the subject of a blockbuster Title IX investigation of the university’s swim team by the Department of Justice.

Vice Adm. Yvette Davids is the first woman and first Hispanic American to serve as Naval Academy superintendent, and as she laid out her top three priorities to the Board of Visitors for the first time, she even found good news in the Washington political maelstrom that delayed her arrival by six months.

A group of 12 organizations has written a letter of support for Sherita Golden, a respected chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer who resigned after her definition of “privilege” caught the ire of high-profile conservatives. The letter includes several demands.

St. John’s and other liberal arts colleges receive grant money to test mental health services.

The federal investigation was one step toward justice, former swimmers say.

The University System of Maryland will take deeper look at how its campuses can prevent the kind of abuse a federal investigation found at UMBC.

The investigation found that the University of Maryland Baltimore County knew about allegations of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination by a former head coach and failed to protect the students on his team.