When the University System of Maryland first established a fund to invest in early-stage student-, faculty- and alumni-led companies, it provided $10 million.

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The University System of Maryland will provide two cost-of-living adjustments and two merit-based pay increases for its employees this year.

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All University System of Maryland schools will require their residential students, excluding those with medical or religious exemptions, to receive a COVID-19 booster shot.

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The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted to approve a measure that will establish a $15 minimum wage for all system employees.

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Coppin State University will install Anthony L. Jenkins, Ph.D. as Coppin’s eighth president Friday.

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Salisbury University President Charles Wight will retire at the end of the academic and fiscal school year, he announced, after leading the school since 2018.

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The union representing Maryland state government workers Thursday announced a campaign to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill that would allow state university employees to bargain with the University System of Maryland’s chancellor rather than the presidents of individual institutions.  ...

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Seventy-nine students at Maryland’s largest college, the University of Maryland, College Park, had their fall course registrations canceled due to failure to comply with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements, according to a university spokesperson. The number accounts for less than ...

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University System of Maryland schools have vaccination rates that far surpass those in their local jurisdictions.

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A little over a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced educational institutions online, the University System of Maryland Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation’s online education platform, USMx, surpassed 1 million enrollments. “I never thought we’d get to that number as ...

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