The Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John’s College has appointed Nora Demleitner, Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, as president of the college’s Annapolis campus. Demleitner’s appointment begins in January 2022.
Offering exceptional quality in higher education, Notre Dame of Maryland University jumps to #27 on the 2022 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking for best value schools in the northern region and continues to rank as one of the nation’s top universities.
McDaniel College is again a top “Best Value” by U.S. News. This is the third consecutive year that McDaniel has been named #1 for academic quality and affordability on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Value Schools - Regional Universities North” list.
Mount St. Mary’s University placed third among Maryland’s 12 ranked public and private regional universities, and 44th of 171 institutions in the North region in U.S. News & World Report ‘s Best Regional Universities rankings for 2022. The university also earned spots on the U.S. News lists for Best Value Schools and Best Colleges for Veterans.
Loyola University Maryland celebrates the opening of the Miguel B. Fernandez Family Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning—the most important large-scale academic renovation on Loyola’s Evergreen campus in 10 years. The dynamic, state-of-the-art building is designed to help students innovate, learn, collaborate, and propel their careers forward.
Hood College’s Master of Science in Counseling programs, Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC), and School Counseling, have received accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) through 2027 following a review from the council board members.
The 2021-22 academic year is off to a successful start at Mount St. Mary’s University, with traditional face-to-face learning and student housing returning to a near-normal status. A record number of undergraduates are taking classes at the Emmitsburg campus this fall, with 1,907 full-time students enrolled in classes that started Monday, August 23. That figure was 1,899 in 2020-21.
Loyola University Maryland will support clean energy development in Maryland by purchasing electricity generated by Friendship Solar Farm in West Friendship, Maryland. The university signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Chaberton Energy Holdings, which developed the solar farm. Chaberton Energy is a Maryland-based renewable energy company funded by Greenbacker Development Fund.
An art teacher and Notre Dame of Maryland University graduate was honored as the region’s top middle school art educator of the year by the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the leading organization for visual arts and design education professionals.
Loyola University Maryland will permanently offer its Master of Science in Data Science program in a fully online format starting this fall.
Ten 14- to 18-year-old students from the Govans neighborhood of Baltimore completed a mural called “Together Govans” depicting symbols representing love, unity, and community on the side of a two-story building at 4300 York Road. The work was part of a program supported by Loyola University Maryland’s York Road Initiative, a community development effort in the York Road and Govans neighborhoods of Baltimore.
Loyola University Maryland has announced the appointment of six new members to its Board of Trustees.
Hood College will make history this week as it welcomes 334 first-year and 96 transfer students on Wednesday for move-in and day one of new student orientation.
Mount St. Mary’s University President Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D., has been named to The Daily Record’s 2021 listing of Influential Marylanders.
Mount students who were awarded these prestigious fellowships are researching and developing detection methods of the COVID-19 virus, new alternatives for solar power production, improved methods to prepare complex drug molecules like pharmaceuticals and natural products, and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Each REU-Site consists of a group of approximately 10 undergraduates who work in the research programs of the host institution; each student is associated with a specific research project where they work closely with the faculty and other researchers. Fellowships include stipends and funds for housing and travel.
