As city and state leaders worked to repair the damage caused by Monday's riot, the violence that spread across the Baltimore took its toll on the city's convention industry. A pair of conferences scheduled to begin Wednesday were canceled due to the violence in the city, one of which was expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees. CoNEXTions, an industry convention of the Door and Hardware Institute, was scheduled for Wednesday through Friday at the Baltimore Convention Center and would have utilized approximately 2,500 room nights at city hotels, according to a statement from Tom Noonan, CEO of Visit Baltimore. The anticipated economic impact of the convention was estimated at $1.18 million, according to Visit Baltimore.

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Loyola Marymount University has chosen Timothy Law Snyder, a former top administrator at Loyola University Maryland, as its 16th president.

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Executive Vice President Susan Donovan will serve as acting president while Rev. Brian Linnane leaves his post for six months.

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In the marketing departments of colleges across Maryland, a paradigm shift is taking root. The old way of doing things isn’t going to cut it anymore, and the universities know it.

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Loyola University Maryland has named Kathleen A. Getz as the new dean of the Sellinger School of Business and Management.

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The gift covers the cost of eight courts with lights, a locker room facility, spectator seating and a parking lot.

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27 Chinese students are in town this week as part of a global business immersion program created by Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business and Management the Beijing Institute of Technology. Instructors from both schools say the week-long series of seminars and presentations is the first step in building a dual degree program between the schools.

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For Karyl Leggio, dean of the business school at Loyola University Maryland, six years in the top post is long enough.

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Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business said Thursday it will present its 2014 Business Leader of the Year Award in October to Sister Helen Amos, executive chair of the board of trustees of Mercy Health Services, and the leadership of Mercy Health Services.

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Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management will name McCormick and Co. Chairman, President and CEO Alan Wilson as Business Leader of the Year.

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