A Johns Hopkins University professor gave a failing grade to formal three-year degree programs at colleges and universities as they become a growing alternative for students looking at alleviate the rising cost of college. The programs fail by cramming a ...

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Mount St. Mary’s University and its president, Timothy Trainor, made it official Saturday, removing the interim tag and making him the permanent president of the Emmitsburg college, the 26th in school history. Trainor was appointed as interim president in August ...

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Millennial Media founder Paul Palmieri has donated $1 million to his alma mater, Mount St. Mary’s University, to create a center for entrepreneurship. The center will provide a major and a minor in entrepreneurship and include a combination of in-class ...

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Indiana Tech says its board of trustees has selected Karl W. Einolf to be the next president of the Fort Wayne-based school. Einoff, whose selection was announced Monday, currently is dean of the Richard J. Bolte ...

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EMMITSBURG — Mount St. Mary’s University says a former dean of the U.S. Military Academy will serve as interim president while the Catholic school searches for a new top administrator after a tumultuous spring semester. Spokesman Christian Kendzierski says retired ...

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EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) — Mount St. Mary’s University says fewer new undergraduates are committing to the Maryland Catholic college after its former president likened struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be killed. Vice President Michael Post said Tuesday that 449 ...

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EMITTSBURG — A Maryland university official says five additional governing board members resigned following an outcry over the former president’s comments likening struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned. The Frederick News-Post reports that Mount St. Mary’s University spokesman ...

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FREDERICK — A former Mount St. Mary’s University student has pleaded guilty to a third-degree sex offense involving a drunken female student who police say was unaware of the incident until his roommates reported their suspicions to authorities. Twenty-year-old Evan ...

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EMMITSBURG — Everyone at Mount St. Mary’s University eats at Patriot Hall — students, faculty and even President Simon Newman. But the other day, hours after Newman rejected the faculty’s demand to resign, the airy, glass-walled cafeteria split into two ...

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EMMITSBURG — A California university says that a recent trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland has no merit. READ MORE: ‘The Mount’ goes to court against its namesake The Frederick News-Post reports that administrators ...

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