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UB law dean resigns over university's use of its revenue

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jul. 29 (News) - The popular dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law said he was forced to resign this week, and in an unusual move, he used a widely circulated email to air internal tensions over the university's spending of law school revenues to subsidize other programs.

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MICA receives $10 million gift, largest in school history

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jul. 27 (News) - The Maryland Institute College of Art announced Wednesday that it has received a $10 million gift, the largest in its history, which will be used to expand graduate programs and research. The gift was bestowed by longtime college trustee George L. Bunting Jr. and his wife, Anne Bunting.

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North Baltimore Gets a New Charter School

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 27 (News) - With help from several local education powerhouses, including a Loyola prof and a former Gilman School headmaster, Baltimore City will see a brand new public charter school opening next fall in North Baltimore.

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UMBC gets high marks for student teacher training programs

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - Jul. 21 (News) - A national study on the quality of student teaching at schools of education ranks two of the three programs examined in Maryland as weak. The National Council on Teacher Quality, which ranked a random sample of three institutions in each state, gave Mount St. Mary's University and Salisbury University "weak" ratings and University of Maryland, Baltimore County a rating of "good."

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Is Segregation Getting Worse? Lawsuit Says Yes

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 20 (News Report) - Maryland has a checkered past when it comes to higher education and race. In 1969, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights ruled that Maryland had an illegal segregated higher education system.

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Baltimore International in talks with two out-of-state institutions about merger

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - Jul. 18 (News) - In an effort to stay open, the Baltimore International College said Monday that it "is in conversation" with two out-of-state institutions about a merger that would allow it to remain accredited. The college will lose its accreditation Aug. 31 after the Middle States Commission said this summer it had failed to address long-standing concerns. Losing accreditation would mean the school, which has about 500 students, would lose federal funding.

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Pricey Summer Programs for Students: Advantage or Indulgence?

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Elizabeth Frederick - Jul. 18 (News Analysis) - Gone are the days of lazy teenage summers, when kids could sleep in till noon and work a couple hours scooping ice cream for spending money. Our teenagers are busy, focused, and accomplished. And many of their parents are spending a lot of money on summer programs, some in the hope that the programs will help them get into the college of their choice.

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Goucher President Marks 10 Years with 'Beautiful' College

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Tyler Waldman - Jul. 12 (News) - Few of the students at Goucher College call the school's leader President Ungar. Or even Mr. Ungar. They just call him Sandy, and he's on a first-name basis with many of them.

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In-state tuition opponents have signatures for referendum

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Annie Linskey - Jul. 07 (News) - Opponents of in-state tuition breaks for illegal immigrants have submitted more than enough valid signatures to suspend the controversial new law until voters have their say next year, state elections officials said Thursday.

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Building the global university

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Wallace D. Loh - Jul. 04 (Opinion) - At the turn of the 20th century, Professor Woodrow Wilson said that every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time. At the beginning of the 21st century, we can say that every person sent out from a university should be a person of the world as well as a person of his or her time.

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College Radio Round-Up

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 01 (Review) - Where to listen, and who's worth listening to. Also: is college radio in danger? And is it worth saving?

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Culinary college weighing merger or appeal to avoid closing

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jun. 30 (News) - Baltimore International College is exploring possible mergers with other institutions and weighing a possible appeal in its attempts to forestall closing because of lost accreditation, the college's Board of Trustees announced Thursday afternoon.

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Picking on immigrants across the fruited plain

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Dan Rodricks - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - We stopped at a supermarket in Baltimore County to buy some apples and peaches, possibly picked by undocumented immigrants employed by an orchard somewhere across the fruited plain. At the entrance to the store, a woman sat at a table offering an anti-Dream Act petition to Friday evening shoppers who appeared eager to sign it. They want to repeal a new Maryland law that would allow in-state college tuition to the undocumented children of undocumented immigrants.

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Culinary College Gets Accreditation Pulled

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL Radio - By Steve Fernier - Jun. 29 (News) - A private college in the city has lost its valued accreditation. The board of trustees at Baltimore International College will meet, today, to decide how to respond.

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Baltimore International College set to lose accreditation in August

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jun. 28 (News) - Baltimore International College, a private institution that teaches cooking skills and hospitality management, is slated to lose its accreditation at the end of the summer, a rare blow that generally causes colleges and universities to close.

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Md. Catholics Stand Up For Illegal Immigrant In-State Tuition

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - By Kelly McPherson - Jun. 24 (News) - Opponents of Maryland’s immigrant in-state tuition law are just 8,000 signatures away from putting the issue on the ballot. Local leaders of the Catholic Church take a stand against the petition.

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Study: Baltimore full of young brainpower

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - Jun. 22 (News) - The Baltimore area has a solid concentration of young brainpower, according to a new Bizjournals.com On Numbers study.

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Teaching kids through mobile media

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Audacious Ideas - By Allissa Richardson - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Most educators will tell you, teens have mobile phones, but they cannot make mobile apps. They access Web sites often, but few know how to use HTML code to design their own. In Baltimore, we can address this dearth of media literacy easily, to ensure the city will have its share of well-qualified workers for our burgeoning technology sector.

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Loyola graduate lands first job working for John Boehner

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jun. 18 (News) - Maura Gillespie turns the corner beside her desk and unlocks a door to the balcony. Laid out below her, perfectly symmetrical, is the National Mall, with the Washington Monument rising like an exclamation point at the end of the expanse.

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Regents to study potential merger of UM campuses

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jun. 17 (News) - Though they have stopped short of endorsing a full merger, the presidents of the University of Maryland campuses in College Park and Baltimore have begun discussing possible collaborations that they say could improve both universities.

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In-state tuition to increase 3 percent

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By Chelsea Feinstein - Jun. 17 (News) - The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted to increase in-state tuition for undergraduates by up to 3 percent for fiscal year 2012 in a public meeting Friday at Bowie State University.

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In-State Tuition To Go Up 3 Percent

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Angela Jackson, Associated Press - Jun. 17 (News) - The University System of Maryland Board of Regents has voted for a 3 percent tuition increase at the state's public colleges and universities for resident undergraduates, except for Salisbury University where a 6 percent increase has been approved.

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Today Joe College Is a Cop

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By B. Boyd - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - News of Baltimore cop Adam Braskich's acceptance to Harvard Law for fall 2011 made me pause and daydream. I thought to myself, "If more police officers pursued college and grad degrees, imagine how much safer we'd all feel. Your average cop would be more self-aware, more meditative/rational, less trigger-happy/hot-headed, no?"

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UMBC Faculty Receives Grant to Increase Diversity Pipeline into Psychology

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By Shernay Williams - Jun. 16 (News) - Recent studies show that while the number of minorities that graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology has risen by at least 20 percent since 1989, the percentage of Black and Latino students that enter psychology doctoral programs remains stagnant.

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ACLU Challenges Petition to Overturn DREAM Act

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Lauren Sausser - Jun. 16 (News) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland has sent a letter to the State Board of Elections, voicing its concerns about the electronic petition form currently being used to solicit signatures by a group that is attempting to overturn the DREAM Act.

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