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Higher education

    Towson University delays spring semester ahead of winter storm, cancels classes until Tuesday
    Towson University announced Thursday it is delaying the start of the spring semester because of the approaching winter storm.
    Towson University announced Thursday it is delaying the start of the spring semester because of the approaching winter storm.
    Hopkins researcher uses familiar tool to track falling space junk
    A Johns Hopkins University researcher published a study in the journal Science on Thursday outlining a method that uses seismometers to track space debris as it falls to Earth, according to the university.
    Debris from Shenzhou-15, a Chinese spacecraft, as it falls to the Earth on April 2, 2024.
    Johns Hopkins taps former COVID Center leader as interim provost
    Lainie Rutkow, the university’s executive vice provost, will lead academics at Hopkins.
    Johns Hopkins University new provost Lainie Rutkow.
    New century, new MICA? Baltimore’s struggling art school courts a new kind of student.
    After years of bleeding cash and students, the Bolton Hill-based college, MICA, announces a new strategy.
    Attendees walk past a balloon display commemorating 200 years of operation during MICA’s bicentennial celebration on Wednesday.
    University of Maryland, BCCC violated law in union negotiations, labor board finds
    The University of Maryland in College Park and Baltimore City Community College violated state labor laws while bargaining with their unions, according to the Maryland Public Employee Relations Board.
    The McKeldin Library and The Mall at The University of Maryland, College Park, on March 16, 2025 in College Park, MD.
    Is this Morgan State policy a threat to free press?
    For years, current and former editors said, reporters at The Spokesman, the HBCU’s student newspaper, have hit a wall getting the information they need to cover the news.
    Aleisha Robinson, a senior at Morgan State University, is editor in chief of The Spokesman, the university’s student paper.
    She was shot at a Towson University party. Maryland’s Supreme Court will decide if she can sue.
    Catherine Torney filed a lawsuit in 2023 against Towson University in Baltimore County Circuit Court that alleged negligence.
    Catherine Torney filed a lawsuit against Towson University in Baltimore County Circuit Court that alleged negligence after she was shot in 2021 at a party on campus.
    The $600,000 plagiarism report the University of Maryland won’t release
    The University of Maryland, College Park, will not release a report that vindicated its president, Darryll Pines, of plagiarizing parts of a 2002 paper he co-authored.
    UMD President Darryll Pines was cleared of allegations he plagiarized portions of a paper he co-authored in 2002.
    Johns Hopkins University loses top academic officer to Caltech
    Ray Jayawardhana, provost of the Johns Hopkins University, is leaving after three years to lead the California Institute of Technology.
    Provost Ray Jayawardhana speaks during the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2024's Commencement Ceremony.
    How Maryland colleges are fighting rising hunger
    Campus pantries at schools like Coppin State University and UMBC give students free food and clothing, no questions asked.
    UMBC’s Retriever Essentials pantry allows students to pick up free food and other items.
    Morgan State marching band to appear in Rose Bowl parade for the first time
    Morgan State University’s marching band joins nearly a dozen others from the U.S. and beyond to perform in the iconic Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
    The Morgan State University band performs during the halftime show at the homecoming game versus Norfolk State University.
    New leadership, book bans and a fired commandant: Naval Academy saw big changes in 2025
    The Naval Academy has navigated choppy seas this year, from a change in leadership to a Trump-era book ban and a last-minute victory in the Army-Navy game to cap off 2025.
    United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, May 9, 2025.
    Congress says the Naval Academy can’t build a second golf course at Greenbury Point
    The U.S. Naval Academy Athletic Association proposed a golf course at Greenbury Point in 2022.
    Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, joined by Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Sarah Elfreth fields questions from attendees during a U.S. Congressional town hall meeting at Howard Community College’s Kahlert Complex in Columbia, Md. on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
    McDaniel College to offer free graduate tuition to McDonogh School teachers
    Graduate tuition at the Carroll County college averages around $11,500 per year.
    McDaniel College in Westminster, September 13, 2024.
    University of Maryland Eastern Shore president sues ex-professor who accused her of plagiarism
    Donna Satterlee, a former faculty member at the HCBU, accused its president, Heidi Anderson, of plagiarizing several paragraphs of her 1986 dissertation.
    Dr. Heidi Anderson speaks as she is presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021.
    Can this Maryland college forge a new path to debt-free education?
    Montgomery College is trying out “degree apprenticeships,” a model imported from the UK.
    Students work in a microbiology lab at Manchester Metropolitan University, in England.
    Police have person of interest in custody over Brown University shooting that killed 2, wounded 9
    Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a person of interest in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded.
    A police vehicle rests at an intersection near crime scene tape at Brown University.
    UMD President Darryll Pines cleared of plagiarism allegations
    The University System of Maryland announced Friday it has cleared its College Park president of allegations that he plagiarized a paper published during his time as a professor at the university.
    Darryll Pines has been the president of the University System of Maryland’s College Park campus since 2020.
    The disappearing diversity programs at Johns Hopkins University
    Under Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University has changed policies and scaled back its diversity office.
    A student walks through Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
    Tensions boil over after Hopkins med students went weeks without hot water
    At least two court cases have been filed by residents, and city inspectors have issued five violation notices against the apartment building related to the hot water failure, online records show.
    The Essential, a Johns Hopkins-affiliated student housing building hasn’t had hot water in almost a month. The residents are students, staff and residents of the university and hospital.
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