Higher education

Mohammed Choudhury had previously announced he would not seek a new four-year contract.

Federal student loan payments are due to resume Oct. 1, and an additional burden confronts some borrowers, including some Marylanders, because of inequities in student loan programs, says Ian Williams, a consumer protection paralegal at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service.

“The Center is for Baltimore and of Baltimore,” newly named Director Michael Pinard wrote in an open letter.

When it comes to how Latinos in this country self-identify, it ultimately depends on the person as well as various factors at play, including age, location, class, race and an evolving view of sexual identity.

When it came to Johns Hopkins, Maryland HBCU Advocates said that despite the university being about 100 miles away from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, a duplicate of a doctoral program could do detrimental harm to the HBCU.

Johns Hopkins University has released a long-awaited draft of policies and procedures for its private police for that, once finalized, would serve as guidelines for officers’ interactions with the public.

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.