The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park has instituted a freeze on tuition for about 850 full- and part-time MBA students returning for the 2013-2014 academic year, the university announced Wednesday.

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Gregory von Lehmen, the University of Maryland University College’s provost and chief academic officer, has been named provost of Mount Washington College, formerly Hesser College, in Manchester, N.H.

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Mortimer H. Neufville, who has served as interim president of Coppin State University since former President Reginald S. Avery’s resignation in January, had the interim tag removed by the University System of Maryland on Tuesday.

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ADELPHI — The Department of Defense has awarded a $250 million contract to University of Maryland University College. UMUC announced Monday that the contract calls for offering exclusive undergraduate and graduate instruction at military installations across Europe. The contract, which ...

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WASHINGTON — College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 ...

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Goucher College President Sanford J. Ungar has told the college’s Board of Trustees he will step down next summer after leading the Towson-based liberal arts college for 13 years.

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ANNAPOLIS — School employees in Anne Arundel County would receive pay raises under an agreement being voted on this week. The county school board is scheduled to vote Wednesday on terms of employment that would give salary step increases and ...

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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Dean Phoebe A. Haddon has decided to step down next year to concentrate more on fundraising and writing a book.

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Attorney and Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos has donated another $1 million to the University of Baltimore School of Law, this time for a program aimed at increasing diversity in Maryland’s legal community.

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HAGERSTOWN — An aircraft maintenance school in Hagerstown is celebrating an expansion. The Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics is cutting a ribbon Monday to open its new 18,000-square-foot building at Hagerstown Regional Airport. The school had been leasing about 15,000 square ...

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