Higher education

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memo directing that the U.S. Department of Defense no longer appoint civilians as tenured faculty at the nation’s military academies, including the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Roughly 20 faculty members at Bowie State University, at least one of them tenured, have been told they won’t have a job next year as administrators seek to curb the historically Black university’s $18 million deficit.

Prince George's Community College and neighboring Largo High School were put on temporary lockdowns following a shooting on the community college’s campus. The teenage boy who was shot is in stable condition.

Some professors are worried an overreliance on large language models is impacting students’ ability to learn.

County Council member Edward Burroughs has awarded $360,000 in grant funding to pay the outstanding balances for Bowie State University students from his district.

A Johns Hopkins University club has been putting on shadow cast performances of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for nearly a decade. After Tim Curry’s death, those students are honoring his legacy.

Lawyer and lobbyist Bryson Popham and social worker Carol Popham donated $500,000 to create the scholarship fund, and the college matched it.

Morgan State University’s Magnificent Marching Machine will perform at halftime Sunday night during the game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys that will commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Jeffrey Nattans, a Baltimore County businessperson and philanthropist, died this month at 59.

Raymond Lunn, 32, of North Baltimore, professed his innocence and pleaded for leniency.

Starting next fall, Towson University will cut tuition and fees by more than $12,000 for students from six neighboring states and Washington, D.C.

Coppin State University’s program, launched in 2023 with $300,000 in state funding, has now helped faculty and staff members buy six homes near campus.

The Bisciotti Family Foundation committed to giving Morgan State University $3 million to support the Ozzie Newsome Scholars program for Baltimore City Public Schools graduates.

Prince George’s County Public Schools and the University of Maryland Global Campus have partnered on a new dual enrollment program to allow students to graduate from high school with a college certificate.

The University of Maryland, College Park, is threatening legal action against a cannabis product company over its “Terps” name.

Baltimore City Community College is the seventh institution to ratify a contract since the Maryland legislature first granted community college faculty the right to unionize in 2021.

The University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, painted a bleak picture of the consequences in federal lawsuit filings.

Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said.

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret will remain in immigration detention, where he has been held for four weeks, a judge has ruled.

Nora Demleitner, who led Annapolis-based St. John’s College for three years, will become executive director of the Ben and Myrna Cardin Center for Civic Engagement and Discourse at Towson University.