Higher education

Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration.

Maryland HBCU Advocates say Stevenson University’s physical therapy program is a duplicate of those offered by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Leaders of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation hope the opening of the Fleugel Alumni Center proves to be a watershed moment for both financial support of the academy and services to graduates.

Hey, students! While you were on summer break, Maryland legalized adult recreational use of cannabis. Here’s a guide to the new law and what public health experts recommend.

The MHEC had previously approved Towson University’s plans, but Attorney General Anthony Brown on Aug. 17 determined that the commission didn’t have enough members present when it voted to overturn a decision by a state official who rejected the program.

MICA president Samuel Hoi will retire at the end of the year, opening the search for a new leader of the prestigious Baltimore arts institution, the college announced Tuesday.

The inevitability of dropping both daughters off at college didn't make coming to terms with an empty nest any easier, writer and filmmaker Charles Cohen says.

Attorney General Anthony Brown found that the Maryland Higher Education Commission did not have enough members present when it voted to overturn a decision by the MHEC’s assistant secretary of academic affairs.

The spike in sexual assaults at service academies was worst in Annapolis, where 23% of female midshipmen experienced unwanted sexual contact and sexual harassment. The causes are both unique to the Naval Academy and common to all college freshmen.

Marylanders working in the cannabis industry are required to get training, and others want as much education as they can get. There are now classes catering to all of them.

The group says a proposed program in business analytics at Towson University “duplicates a well-established, functionally identical business analytics administration program at Morgan State University.”

Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, says society is at a crossroads where the accurate telling of history is of the utmost importance.

In some Baltimore neighborhoods, where schoolhouses may be among the last stable anchors left, the decision to close one can feel like a death knell. And for some parents and advocates, closing lower-enrolled schools while leaving overpopulated ones intact can send a message about a neighborhood’s value.

Towson University’s next president is an administrator at George Mason University with experience supporting diversity on campus.

Lacks’ family and Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to keep terms of the settlement confidential. Her family celebrated the deal with cake on what would have been Lacks’ 103rd birthday.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa K. Copeland said she will allow Ibn Williams, 23, of Newark, New Jersey, to file an amended complaint in the case.

Lawsuits alleging profits have been made from stolen, regenerative biological material aren’t common. But if the strategy works, this could become the first in a series of complaints seeking compensation for and control of Lacks’ cells.

As the value of college is increasingly questioned, higher education remains vital to providing opportunities to students from low-income households, Boyd Bradshaw, Towson University’s vice president of enrollment management, says.

Morgan State University’s new Center for Urban Violence and Crime Reduction will engage all segments of Baltimore as it seeks answers for addressing the “carnage” from gun violence in the city, says Anna McPhatter, dean of Morgan’s School of Social Work and director of the center.

Tonya Webb, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, gravitated to cancer research after several family members battled the disease. Now she inspires future cancer fighters.