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Notre Dame, Mt. St. Mary’s to offer collaborative nursing degree program
Mount St. Mary’s University is making it easier for students to enroll in Notre Dame of Maryland University’s fast-track Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.
Hopkins professor: Three-year degree programs are not working
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 traditional four-year program into three years instead of focusing on offering students a real alternative, […]
Mount St. Mary’s makes Trainor permanent president
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 last year. Before his appointment, Trainer spent 33 years in the Army, where he reached […]
Millennial Media founder gives Mount St. Mary’s $1M
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 and hands-on learning. “The education there is inspiring people to start and grow businesses,” Palmieri […]
Indiana Tech trustees select Md. university’s dean as next president
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 Sr. School of Business at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He also served […]
Mount St. Mary’s names West Point dean as interim president
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 Army Brig. Gen. Timothy Trainor will serve two years as interim president of the school […]
Fewer commit to Md. college after firestorm over its president
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 incoming freshmen committed to the school by the May 1 national reporting deadline, compared with […]
Five Mount St. Mary’s trustees resigned after president’s comments
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 Christian Kendzierski confirmed the board of trustee resignations Thursday. He says they occ[...]
Md. college student guilty of sex offense with drunken victim
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 Haggarty of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, avoided trial on a second-degree rape charge by striking the plea […]
Amid freshman profiling furor, Md. school at odds over its leader
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 groups — those who supported the college president and those angered by his number-crunching strategies […]
California university blasts Maryland school’s trademark suit
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 at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles said in a statement on Tuesday that […]
Mount St. Mary’s University expands in Frederick
FREDERICK — An expansion at Mount St. Mary’s University will allow the Frederick campus to almost double in size and offer more programming. “We’re growing to meet the needs of the community,” said Tracy Boyd, campus communications manager. Last year, the university signed a seven-year lease — an investment of more than $3 million for […]
