Higher education

Some Naval Academy alumnae are dismayed by the Pentagon’s decision to remove Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first female superintendent of the Naval Academy

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed news reports that the first female superintendent of the Naval Academy, Yvette Davids, has been reassigned.

USNI News is reporting that Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, who has served as Naval Academy superintendent since January 2024, is being reassigned. Davids is the first Latina and first woman to hold the post.

America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Ten months later, the probe into the research work of University of Maryland President Darryll Pines is still ongoing.

After the Trump administration launched a broadside attack against the way the federal government has funded major research universities across the country, Hopkins has been forced to wage a campaign of its own.

The Trump administration's hostile policies toward international students could be disastrous for Maryland and, in particular, Baltimore.

Despite rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, Frostburg State is working to expand a program where it educates Chinese students thousands of miles away.

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender, in partnership with the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, has launched a second Innocence Project Clinic.

University leaders at Maryland believe there could be a way to compromise with the Trump administration over research funding.

Two Maryland universities are joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, arguing they could lose tens of millions of dollars if the department caps its indirect cost rates.

Johns Hopkins University is at a complicated crossroads as President Donald Trump’s administration threatens to pull federal funding from institutions with programs that support marginalized groups.

Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland look to join 16 other colleges in filing a brief in support of Harvard University

The decision was a blow to the art college, whose leaders argued in the hearing that the new program was a “fundamental element” of the school’s financial plan.

Though it isn’t official quite yet, the University System of Maryland is expected to authorize tuition increases of up to 5%.

J. Walter Sterling, president of the college’s second campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has assumed the role of college-wide president.

Johns Hopkins University will freeze staff hiring and pay increases as it deals with federal funding losses.

A new partnership with the American Enterprise Institute aims to bring more political balance to the faculty.

More than a third of Maryland’s roughly 24,000 international students were from China last school year.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, including those studying in “critical fields.”