Black woman to lead Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2012
Tags: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, college, dean, director, Education, jacqueline williams, school
WBAL-TV reports that Jacqueline Williams has become the first woman and the first African-American to take over the high school. Williams had been serving as interim director and was officially named to the position of director on Tuesday. Williams is also is a graduate, former teacher and dean of students at the school. She has [...]
Board of Public Works approves $161M in school funding
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 23, 2012
Tags: board of public works, budget, construction, Education, funding, maryland, public schools
ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland board has approved $161 million in unallocated school funding. The Board of Public Works approved the money on Wednesday. That brings the total amount allocated for school construction to $349 million for the next fiscal year. The board approved $187 million in initial funding for school construction in January. Representatives from [...]
Supporters of in-state tuition to mobilize
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 23, 2012
Tags: ballot, clery, election, grassroots campaign, illegal immigrants, in-state tuition, maryland industrial areas foundation, referendum
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SILVER SPRING — Supporters of a measure to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Maryland colleges in certain circumstances are mobilizing for a referendum in November. Clergy members who belong to the Maryland Industrial Areas Foundation are holding an event in Silver Spring on Wednesday to talk about how they plan to discuss [...]
Montgomery County school employees to get raises
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: Board of Education, budget, montgomery county public school employees, raise, rockville, salary, teachers, union
ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County public school employees are set to receive their first raise in three years under a tentative budget deal. The settlement between the school district’s employee unions and the Board of Education on Monday would give employees an average raise of about 3.4 percent. The salary increases are part of the school [...]
Policy changes follow Penn State scandal
BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: anton goff, bowie state university, changes, college park, jerry sandusky, Penn State, policy, sexual abuse, University System of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK — When Bowie State University athletic director Anton Goff first heard about the Penn State football child molestation scandal, he shared the same reaction as much of the country: shock and horror. With a college athletics program in his charge, however, his thought process quickly went deeper. “I think most of us in [...]
Law students take part in University of Md., Baltimore commencement 
BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: 1st mariner arena, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Graduate School at the University of Maryland, graduation, University of Maryland, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Graduates of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law received their diplomas Friday afternoon, along with the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, social work and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. After a law school hooding ceremony at the Hippodrome Theatre on Friday morning, about 1,600 students in [...]
Dalglish to head UM journalism school
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: ann g. wylie, kevin klose, lucy dalglish, philip merrill college of journalism, reporters committee for freedom of the press, University of Maryland College Park
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, has been named the new dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. She will assume the post on Aug. 1. Dalglish, an attorney, has headed the RCFP for 12 years. The nonprofit organization [...]
2 UMBC employees leave due to questionable card purchases
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: Attorney General, contrls, corporate purchasing card, employees, gift cards, state audit, university, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
ANNAPOLIS — Two employees at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have either resigned or been dismissed after state auditors cited questionable use of corporate purchasing cards. A state audit, which was released Tuesday, says the university lacked adequate controls over the cards. The audit notes one of the employees who no longer works at [...]
$58K Sophie Kerr Prize winner to be named
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: estate, literature, New York City, prize, sophie kerr prize, Washington College, writing
The winner of the largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation is set to be announced for the 45th time. The Sophie Kerr Prize winner will be named Tuesday evening in New York City. The value of the 2012 prize is more than $58,000. Washington College in Chestertown has named five finalists for the prize, [...]
UB Law to get $250K donation from DLA Piper
BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: May 14, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, DLA Piper, donation, maryland, ub law, university of baltimore school of law
DLA Piper US LLP will drop $250,000 into the funding bucket for the University of Baltimore School of Law’s new $107 million building, the firm announced Monday. The donation from DLA Piper, which evolved from mergers with Baltimore-based Piper & Marbury and other firms over the last two decades, will allow it to put its [...]
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