Higher education

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.

Parents who invested in the state's prepaid tuition program to save for college called State Treasurer Dereck Davis’ decision to set a 6% earnings rate on their contributions an overdue victory.

MICA administrators won’t say how many employees will be laid off ahead of the fall 2023 academic semester but have indicated that “rightsizing” is ongoing.

The role of community colleges in bringing equity to higher education is all the more crucial after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action in college admission, Sandra L. Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County, says.

Affirmative action wasn’t about giving unqualified people a leg up, but about leveling a playing field that was never, and still is not, level.

Those fighting for social and economic justice in America must redouble their efforts in response to setbacks such the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans.

Maryland educators and academics said the ban on race-conscious college admissions will make them work harder to encourage Black and Latino students to apply to selective colleges.

The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.

The attackers targeted a “previously unknown vulnerability in the widely used software MOVEit,” the letter said.

Johns Hopkins’ definition of lesbians as “non-men” triggered online outrage from both the right and left, labels of misogyny and even criticism from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Legal actions attacking affirmative action programs threaten to halt or reverse the gains in minority business development in this region and elsewhere, says Sharon Pinder, the president and CEO of the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council.

The university’s new Coppin Corner offers a supermarket-style setup filled with nonperishable foods, snacks, cleaning products and more.

The invitations have been pouring in for Morgan State University’s marching band. Members will perform at a Juneteenth concert this week at the White House, and at a D-Day parade in Normandy, France in June 2024.

Goodwill Industries will bring its Excel Center program to Baltimore this fall, providing an opportunity for adults without high school diplomas to earn one, Lisa Rusyniak, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, says.