Higher education

The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.

The attackers targeted a “previously unknown vulnerability in the widely used software MOVEit,” the letter said.

Johns Hopkins’ definition of lesbians as “non-men” triggered online outrage from both the right and left, labels of misogyny and even criticism from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Legal actions attacking affirmative action programs threaten to halt or reverse the gains in minority business development in this region and elsewhere, says Sharon Pinder, the president and CEO of the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council.

The invitations have been pouring in for Morgan State University’s marching band. Members will perform at a Juneteenth concert this week at the White House, and at a D-Day parade in Normandy, France in June 2024.

The university’s new Coppin Corner offers a supermarket-style setup filled with nonperishable foods, snacks, cleaning products and more.

Goodwill Industries will bring its Excel Center program to Baltimore this fall, providing an opportunity for adults without high school diplomas to earn one, Lisa Rusyniak, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, says.

On Friday, more than 1,000 Naval Academy midshipmen tossed their “covers” in the air as part of the traditional hat toss, a ritual ending their four years in Annapolis and part of the moment that most become commissioned Navy and Marine Corps officers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a surprise address at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony via livestream Thursday morning.

Baltimore County is committed to making community college tuition free, and that educational opportunity needs to be available nationwide, say Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. and Community College of Baltimore County President Sandra L. Kurtinitis.

College was too expensive for Brenda Rivera, but she vowed her daughters would have the opportunity to go. Then she got the chance to go, too, graduating from Notre Dame of Maryland University.

The Naval Academy Class of 2026 on Wednesday morning joined a long list of plebes who, for over 60 years, have scrambled up an obelisk to swap a midshipman’s cover for a Dixie cup.

The goal of this rite of passage is for classmates to scale the monument, which is covered with shortening, remove the “Dixie cup” hat at the top and replace it with an upperclassman’s hat, called a “cover.” With this, the freshmen are no longer considered plebes.

New images offer the first look at a complex ring system of inner belts that surround a young, nearby star.

Book-banning and other censorship efforts were a threat to journalistic freedom 100 years ago, and they still are today, DeWayne Wickham, The Banner’s public editor, says.

Valerie Sheares Ashby will be inaugurated Thursday in front of the campus community and Gov. Wes Moore as the sixth president of UMBC.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Davids would become the first woman to lead the service academy in Annapolis.

Bard has worked as vice president for public safety for Hopkins since 2021.

Morgan State University has officially launched a new business hub in partnership with the PNC Foundation. The hub aims to provide people in the Black community with the resources and education needed to start and sustain their own businesses.

As of Tuesday morning, the wall — built on hate and oppression, according to the university president — was reduced to rubble.