Higher education

Competitive flag football is coming to Howard Community College next year.

The plebes, or first-year Naval Academy students, have climbed the Herndon Monument every year since 1962 to signify end of the plebe life and the beginning of fourth-class midshipmen life.

Despite polarization and unrest on college and university campuses, the institutions can find ways to make constructive use of that conflict, say the University of Baltimore's president and a professor of public and international affairs.

Pro-Palestinian protesters camped out at Johns Hopkins University for nearly two weeks said Sunday morning that they have reached an agreement with university administration and will break down their encampment.

The Pentagon has awarded a university lab $12 billion over past decade. Pro-Palestinian protesters want that to end.

The 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth presents an opportunity for the Peabody Conservatory to ensure that another generation of musicians appreciates the meaning and significance of his work, says trumpeter and composer Sean Jones, who chairs Peabody’s jazz program.

The pro-Palestinian encampment on the Johns Hopkins University campus has stretched on for about a week, despite rainy weather.

Stevie Wonder and Misty Copeland will deliver addresses as part of the Peabody Conservatory’s graduation ceremonies May 22.

The proposal requests that Hopkins divest “from all companies with ties to the state of Israel,” demilitarize “by severing its financial relationships with the U.S. Department of Defense,” and disclose “all financial relationships with the state of Israel.”

Johns Hopkins University’s encampment has been growing every day into a tense but peaceful stalemate.

A university spokesperson said both affiliated protestors and unaffiliated protestors are in violation of university “policies and/or are trespassing.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday set up an encampment at the Johns Hopkins University, the latest college to face demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas war.

A documentary about Jim Henson, who began his career as a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, is coming to Disney+ next month.

The student protests that have been sweeping college campuses nationwide landed at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.

Fewer than half of city graduates go to college, but the Ravens, the team’s owner and M&T Bank want to change that.

Ninety-nine percent of Goucher College students get financial aid or scholarships of some kind, its president said.

St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.

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.