FREDERICK — Frederick Community College has released some details about the ouster of its former president following a newspaper’s filing of a Public Information Act request and lawsuit. The Frederick News-Post reports that the school released a redacted version Wednesday ...

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Students at Maryland’s state universities will be paying a little more next school year. The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents approved tuition and fee hikes at a meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday. The 2.4 percent increase over this ...

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Timothy Marcin, a would-be journalist who won the nation’s largest literary prize for undergraduate college students Tuesday night, isn’t too worried about the future of the news industry. “Everybody tells me to be discouraged,” Marcin said after winning the Sophie ...

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Three of Maryland’s public university leaders ranked among the top 212 earners among their peers in 2012, according to an analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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SALISBURY — Salisbury University has received an $8 million gift to be used to build a new complex that will include a library. The gift from the Guerrieri Family Foundation, which was announced Thursday, is one of the largest private ...

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The Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of Maryland, a state-funded liberal arts college in St. Mary's County, has agreed to freeze in-state undergraduate tuition for the 2013-14 academic year at the current rate, as a result of $800,000 in new funding that was approved unanimously by the House of Delegates and the Senate during the just-concluded legislative session.

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ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates has given final approval to a bill giving the Prince George’s County executive more control over the county’s school system. The House voted 81-45 on Saturday to agree with changes made by the Senate ...

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McDaniel College next month will rename its Academic Hall for the late commercial real estate developer Leroy M. Merritt, a McDaniel alumnus.

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ANNAPOLIS — Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker is urging lawmakers to support a measure that would allow him to overhaul the county’s school system. The county’s House and Senate delegations held a joint hearing on Monday where they considered ...

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WASHINGTON — Congressional inaction could end up costing college students an extra $5,000 on their new loans. The rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, just as millions of ...

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