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Colleges cut spending, raise funds as new loan limits for parents loom
Colleges are cutting budgets and raising funds to offset new $20,000 annual Parent Plus loan limits impacting families' pay for higher education.
UMES awarded $200K grant for health innovation research
The University of Maryland, Eastern Shore is sharing in $1 million in health innovation and research grants awarded by The Propel Center.
Bomb-threatened Black schools, including in Md., eligible for security grants
Historically Black colleges and universities victimized by recent bomb threats are now eligible for federal grants under a program designed to help improve campus security.
HBCU bomb threat caller described elaborate plot to police
A caller who threatened to blow up a historically Black university in Florida — one of numerous threats made against schools across the nation — described an elaborate plot.
Bomb threats made to Bowie State, historically Black schools across US
At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states, including Maryland, and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday.
Top priorities for Maryland HBCU spending: Affordability, research, entrepreneurship
Maryland's historically Black colleges and universities are now saddled with the task of figuring out how to spend millions in new funds.
HBCU supporters eye legislative solution to protracted litigation
Thirteen years after filing a lawsuit alleging the state of Maryland had willfully supported predominantly white institutions over historically black colleges, backers of the traditionally black schools sense an opportunity […]
HBCU supporters vow to continue fight for higher lawsuit settlement
ANNAPOLIS — Supporters of Maryland’s historically black colleges and universities have been fighting for more than a decade and are not going away now, they told the governor and lawmakers […]
Funding for historically black colleges still held up in Senate
Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Maryland may lose more than $4 million in federal funding if Congress does not reauthorize mandatory spending for those institutions beyond the current academic year.
4th Circuit extends mediation in dispute over Md. college segregation
Mediation between Maryland and its historically black institutions, scheduled to be completed by April 30, was extended by three months Thursday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the […]
State outlines appeal of liability, injunction in HBCU litigation
Nearly five years after a federal judge found Maryland's state colleges and universities failed to effectively desegregate, the state will get to challenge on appeal that ruling and the subsequently ordered injunctive relief.
Plaintiffs in HBCU lawsuit say they were not privvy to proposed $100M settlement
A proposed settlement to end litigation between Maryland and its historically black institutions fails to address key features of a federal judge's order in the case.
