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    The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into more than 50 universities, including Towson University, for alleged racial discrimination.
    More than 50 universities, including Towson, face federal investigations as part of Trump’s anti-DEI campaign
    The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money.
    Rasheed Mustapha, a first-year engineering student at Loyola University Maryland, was able to attend the school by offsetting tuition with a Sellinger fund scholarship.
    ‘Devastating’ cuts could be coming to Maryland college scholarships
    State legislators are now weighing whether to cut scholarship funds for students at private colleges by 50% for the second year in a row.
    Pocomoke High School math teacher La'Tier Evans helps a student with an algebra assignment in her classroom on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 in Pocomoke City, MD. Evans was inspired to teach after having a Black teacher in the eighth grade, and is now Worcester County’s only Black secondary math teacher.
    Judge blocks Trump cuts to Maryland teacher recruitment efforts
    The initial victory comes the same day the Department of Education said it would lay off more than 1,300 employees.
    Last spring, protestors created an encampment at Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus at a grassy area called “The Beach.” They pitched tents and created signs in honor of Palestine.
    Feds threaten Hopkins, other colleges with funding cuts over antisemitism claims
    Like many other colleges last spring, Hopkins grappled with balancing free speech and campus safety after students organized a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
    Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, left, was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors by President Donald Trump.
    Trump appoints Sean Spicer to Naval Academy board after firing ‘woke’ members
    After firing six members, President Trump announced his nominees for the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors over the weekend.
    Gannon Sprinkle, Candidate for College Park City Council, stands by a Metro train while out campaigning on February 9th, 2025 in College Park, MD.
    Could College Park’s City Council get its first undergraduate member?
    Gannon Sprinkle, a junior at the University of Maryland, hopes to "bridge the gap" between college students and long-term residents.
    BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 5, 2024: Kindergarten students pay attention to their teacher during an English Language Arts class in KIPP Baltimore on December 5, 2024.
    Maryland joins lawsuit against Trump cuts to teacher recruitment programs
    The state could end up with fewer teachers in classrooms and university layoffs, the attorney general said.
    The Jhpiego headquarters in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Md.
    Johns Hopkins University president forecasts possible cuts after Trump directives
    In a letter to campus, Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels appears to brace the campus for cuts.
    Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts was scheduled to speak at the University of Maryland law school in Baltimore on Monday night.
    Project 2025 author Kevin Roberts cancels talk at University of Maryland law school
    Kevin Roberts won’t speak in Baltimore because of an illness.
    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.
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