Higher education

Enrollment in the Maryland system’s 11 public institutions increased to record numbers.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s second gift to Morgan State University, $63 million, came as a surprise.

Howard Community College traced a “substantial” water main breach on its main campus to the magnitude 2.5 earthquake near Columbia.

By chance, a little college in Towson has come to hold the largest Jane Austen collection in the world outside of England.

Multiple people were shot during what was supposed to be a celebration near the campus of Howard University in D.C., on Friday evening.

Thomas Lieb, a longtime communications professor at Towson University, died of cancer this month. Friends, family and former students remember him as passionate, hardworking and kind.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced Friday that it received a historic donation of $38 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Turning Point USA claims a security charge targets the group’s free speech at the University of Maryland, College Park.

More and more colleges in Maryland are offering direct admissions through the Common App, meaning students are receiving acceptances without even applying.

Notre Dame of Maryland University Marylou Yam will retire June 30 after leading the school for 12 years.

A fleet of 14 food-delivery robots at the Baltimore County university tends to hungry students.

Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus after school officials told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons.

The Banner’s third annual thought leadership conference, taking place at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, tackles how Maryland can respond to threats from federal spending cuts, the future of college research and the impact of the arts.

Baltimore City Community College faculty were “blindsided” by a plan to consolidate their employer with the University of Baltimore, according to Laura Pope, the faculty union chair.

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now given Morgan State University a total of $103 million.

Mikie Sherrill. Amy McGrath. Eileen Laubacher. All Naval Academy graduates, all running for office. Fifty years after the first women entered the academy, they represent a generational moment of change.

Kurt Schmoke, president of the University of Baltimore, has a new idea to help stabilize the embattled university: consolidation with Baltimore City Community College.

“Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple,” Jackson Elliot Fleming wrote from his home in Chesterton, Indiana, according to federal prosecutors.

A 20-year-old U.S. Naval Academy midshipman from New Jersey has died, the military service academy in Annapolis said.

Political scientist Hahrie Han has spent decades answering questions about political organizing, collective action and democracy. Her work has earned her one of the country’s most prestigious awards: the MacArthur “Genius” grant.