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    Morgan State University’s acrobatics and tumbling team.
    Morgan State’s acrobatics and tumbling team lands another first
    The Baltimore-based historically Black college is one of 13 schools in the country to offer acrobatics and tumbling at the Division I level.
    Dale Glenwood Green, seen giving a virtual presentation about historic preservation for the Maryland State Archives, taught at Morgan State University since 2008.
    After license flap, architecture professor no longer at Morgan State
    Dale Glenwood Green, who taught at Morgan State University since 2008, was fined $20,000 in December for practicing architecture without a license.
    Emily Ariail preps DNA for protein purification in the lab at the Translational Tissue Engineering Center, adjacent to Johns Hopkins Hospital, on February 21, 2025.
    Johns Hopkins bet big on federal funding. The losses could now be $200 million a year.
    The Trump cost-cutting measures for health research would prompt layoffs, the Johns Hopkins University says.
    This year, Juan Webster and his team will train about 2,000 Montage International employees at its 16 properties worldwide, including the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore, in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging best practices.
    Why these Marylanders are doubling down on DEI
    Marylanders are leaning into DEI as the term itself is being weaponized and its initiatives have become a target of the Donald Trump administration.
    The Naval Academy in Annapolis.
    Naval Academy faculty told to avoid ‘divisive concepts’ like ‘systemic racism’
    After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.
    Contractors ready the Francis Scott Key Bridge site for demolition and, ultimately, for the construction of a replacement span. Crews began preconstruction activities in early January, and the new structure is expected to be finished in 2028.
    How CCBC plans to train workers to help build the Key Bridge
    The Community College of Baltimore County is launching an initiative to address a shortage of welders needed to replace the Key Bridge.
    The Johns Hopkins University plans to add between 20 and 30 new officers in 2025.
    Johns Hopkins’ controversial police force to hire as many as 30 officers in 2025
    The controversial Johns Hopkins police force intends to add new officers to campuses in 2025 despite unrest on its Accountability Board and backlash from students, faculty and community members.
    President Donald Trump stands on the Navy side of the field to start the second half of the Army-Navy game at Lincoln Financial Field on Dec. 14, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    Citing ‘wokeness,’ Trump says he’s firing boards at Naval Academy, other military colleges
    President Trump says he firing the boards of the nation’s military academies, including the Naval Academy. He claims they have been “infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues.”
    A lawsuit, joined by the Johns Hopkins University, filed late Monday stemmed from NIH’s announcement last week that it would cap the availability of indirect funds.
    Johns Hopkins joins lawsuit against NIH cuts to universities
    Johns Hopkins University joined several universities in a lawsuit on Monday evening suing the federal government over NIH funding.
    Students walk across the campus of Howard Community College between classes.
    Tensions rise between Howard Community College, new faculty union
    Hours before Howard Community College faculty union members testified in support of legislation that intends to bring more transparency to the college, several of their offices were raided.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House after returning from a weekend trip on January 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Over the weekend, Trump traveled to North Carolina and California to survey storm and fire damage, to Nevada for a rally and to Florida to address a Congressional Republican conference.
    Donald Trump and his closed society come for the minds of the Naval Academy
    This is a contest to define America‘s character, how we balance between an open and closed society.
    Plans to cut 400 positions across the university system would affect campuses such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Catonsville.
    University System of Maryland prepares to cut hundreds of jobs amid state deficit
    The University System of Maryland could see 400 job cuts after Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed $111 million reduction to the system.
    Dr. Ronald Nowaczyk is FSU’s 15th president, appointed by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents following a national search. He began his leadership of the university on May 9, 2016.
    Frostburg State University president dies at 74
    Ronald Nowaczyk had planned to step down at the end of January due to health issues.
    Howard Community College’s Board of Trustees approved a $7.7 million five-year contract with CampusWorks, a higher education consultant company, to staff and manage the college’s human resources department.
    Howard Community College enters contract to outsource its HR department
    Howard Community College has entered into $7.7 million five-year contract with a higher education consultant company to staff and manage the college’s human resources department.
    The Howard Community College held a rally before the college's annual convocation ceremony on Friday Jan. 24, 2025 to voice their frustrations over contract negotiations with administration.
    Faculty union calls on Howard Community College to ‘stop the stalling’ over contract talks
    The Howard Community College faculty union is speaking up about what it deems to be inaction and constant stalling by the college's administration to meet at the bargaining table.
    Frostburg State University in July of 2019.
    Frostburg State is facing a multimillion-dollar deficit. Other colleges may follow.
    With more budget cuts looming, what’s happening on the Western Maryland campus could serve as a warning to other universities.
    Twelve Salisbury University students who were initially charged with hate crimes are facing trial on misdemeanor charges in the next week.
    Salisbury University students face trial in attack on man from Grindr
    Three men face trial in Wicomico District Court for misdemeanors.
    Howard County lawmakers listen to testimony by three former Howard Community College trustees who abruptly resigned from the seven-member board in November.
    Howard County senators move to fill vacancies on depleted community college board
    Howard County senators are recommending three individuals to Howard Community College’s Board of Trustees, which will likely have to confront questions about the tenure of its controversial president, Daria Willis.
    Johns Hopkins joins other elite universities in settling a class action lawsuit claiming they overcharged students by colluding on financial aid formulas.
    Johns Hopkins agrees to pay $18.5M to plaintiffs in financial aid price-fixing lawsuit
    Johns Hopkins University has agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle a financial aid price-fixing lawsuit
    As some students turned their backs on speaker Mitt Romney, pro-Palestine demonstrators in the audience called for Johns Hopkins to divest from Israel at the university’s commencement ceremony last spring.
    Johns Hopkins won’t cut financial ties to Israel
    The board of trustees will not consider cutting financial ties to Israel after a committee rejected calls from some student groups to divest.
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