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The University of Maryland, Baltimore County agreed to a long list of changes prescribed by the U.S. Department of Justice, but experts say true reform requires a culture change.

The University of Maryland, College Park, on Tuesday announced the creation of its Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland.

The wooded campus of Goucher College was once part of one of the largest plantations in the state of Maryland, where the Ridgely family enslaved hundreds of Black Marylanders. Three groups with a stake in the Ridgely plantation reunited this month for a descendant engagement symposium.

The Caucus of African American Leaders unanimously voted to ask that two bridges in the state, including the Francis Scott Key Bridge, be renamed.

Morgan State is increasing security measures to prevent violence on campus since the shooting in October.

A fraternity is suing the University of Maryland over its suspension of Greek life on campus, saying school administrators forced students to undergo mandatory interrogations as part of an investigation or face discipline.

Swimmers could be entitled to $180,000 or $60,000 each as part of a settlement approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday.

Sonja Santelises, Baltimore City Public Schools’ longest-serving CEO in recent history, appears to be negotiating another four-year contract.

Audio purporting to be Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert was almost certainly faked using artificial intelligence.

Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways that he didn't want anybody to know about, Tom Minkin, his friend and longest-serving legal associate, says.

Three Calvert County middle school students were charged as juveniles with harassment and violations of Maryland’s hate crimes statutes.

Maryland officials are set to pay $4.1 million to two groups of individuals identified from a Title IX investigation into the University of Maryland Baltimore County, which was just the subject of a blockbuster Title IX investigation of the university’s swim team by the Department of Justice.

“What happened this year ... frankly it’s never happened before in 25 years,” said Peter Baily, executive director of the Association of Independent Maryland & D.C. Schools.

Among the candidates will be Acting Superintendent Bill Barnes.

Vice Adm. Yvette Davids is the first woman and first Hispanic American to serve as Naval Academy superintendent, and as she laid out her top three priorities to the Board of Visitors for the first time, she even found good news in the Washington political maelstrom that delayed her arrival by six months.

A group of 12 organizations has written a letter of support for Sherita Golden, a respected chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer who resigned after her definition of “privilege” caught the ire of high-profile conservatives. The letter includes several demands.

St. John’s and other liberal arts colleges receive grant money to test mental health services.

The school system’s largest redistricting process has come to a close. Not everyone is confident the relief will be permanent.

Baltimore Circuit Judge John Addison Howard said it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to impose a harsh sentence for Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former educator who accidentally dropped her bag containing a loaded handgun at KIPP Harmony Academy in West Baltimore on Dec. 21, 2023.

“I have never seen it this bad,” one principal said about the rising number of parents showing up at school ready to fight on behalf of their children.