HAGERSTOWN— The University System of Maryland is naming a new executive director for its Hagerstown center. The center said Wednesday that Mark Halsey will assume the office May 21. Halsey is currently director of finance and administration for distance learning ...

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MINEOLA, N.Y. — Students taking college entrance exams this fall will have to submit photo IDs with their applications — a key security upgrade following a widespread cheating scandal at a number of high schools on New York’s Long Island, ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took a break from his day job Tuesday to revisit the academic life he led before coming to Washington a decade ago. Shortly after noon, he stood before a class of George Washington ...

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WASHINGTON — Millions of college students could be in for a shock this summer when the interest rate on a popular federally subsidized student loan doubles unless Congress acts. College students on Tuesday delivered more than 130,000 letters to congressional ...

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ANNAPOLIS — If the University System of Maryland moves to a performance-based funding model for its institutions, college presidents warn that the program should not be one-size-fits-all. Changing the system’s funding model likely will not be directly discussed again during ...

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Notre Dame of Maryland University is getting a new president. School officials will introduce the school’s 12th president Thursday afternoon. The new president will succeed Mary Pat Seurkamp when she retires at the end of this academic year. Seurkamp has ...

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Like many students at the University of Maryland, College Park, freshman Sree Sinha hopes for a better future. Sinha and other members of UMCP’s Residence Hall Association Sustainability Committee recently hosted Ban the Bottle, an event created to spread the ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Officials have contained a fire that broke out in an electrical room of a building on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. Fire department spokesman Mark Brady says firefighters were called at about ...

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WASHINGTON — Americans stepped up their borrowing in October to buy cars and attend college, and they also charged a little more to their credit cards. The second straight monthly gain in overall borrowing suggests consumers are growing more confident ...

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William R. Brody of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was the second highest-paid president of a private college in the United States in 2009, according to a list published Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Brody was the ...

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