The University of Maryland, Baltimore is trying to create a $300 million “college town” near the heart of its downtown campus, featuring high-rise residential buildings, an outdoor recreation area and even a pub. Last spring, UMB laid off 30 employees. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

My latest story: "Aspiring teachers thought they were getting a full ride. Then the bills came." Students are accusing the state's higher education commission of bungling scholarships for the second time in six months. This time, for teacher education. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

New: In ads to run ahead of Super Bowl kick-off & during post-game, BGE will push its legislative agenda to build and own Maryland power plants, a reversal on decades of state regulatory policy. $150K ad buy includes spots in Super Bowl-night & Olympics coverage www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

New: Maryland grants in-state tuition to undocumented students if they submit three years of tax returns. But now the IRS is working with ICE, and students fear they'll be deported. It means that some of Maryland's best students aren't going to college. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

New: Maryland grants in-state tuition to undocumented students if they submit three years of tax returns. But now the IRS is working with ICE, and students fear they'll be deported. It means that some of Maryland's best students aren't going to college. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Hey, look, it's GOOD media news. @thebaltimorebanner.com and @bannermoco.bsky.social are coming to Prince George's County. 🗞️ www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/th...

Thought it was hard for your school to reopen after the storm? The state's only school serving blind students had to de-ice thousands of feet of sidewalk while stuck beholden to surrounding districts' closure decisions. Plus, they're not allowed to go virtual. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

💸Loyola University Maryland has received three record breaking gifts, back to back to back in under two months. The gifts, totaling $32 million, "mark an inflection point," for the private Jesuit university in Baltimore. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Household items are making their way outdoors in Baltimore. Do you save your parking spot after a snowstorm? www.thebanner.com/community/tr...

New: Students at the University of Maryland, College Park are being encouraged to leave campus if they can after more than 100 buildings, including residence and dining halls, have lost heat and hot water. This is the state's flagship public university: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Scoop: All three main academic deans at the University of Baltimore have announced their departures in the last month, as the struggling institution continues to lose students and money. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Towson University is delaying the start of its spring semester, canceling classes and urging students to postpone their return to campus because of this weekend's expected snowstorm. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

🎨After years of bleeding cash and students, the Maryland Institute College of Art announced new strategic investments to turn things around. My story about changes coming to Baltimore's art school and its 200th anniversary celebration, here: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

🚨: Johns Hopkins University has named an interim provost, who will take over once Ray Jayawardhana departs in mid-February for CalTech. Meet Lainie Rutkow, known for leading the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

New: The Maryland Public Employee Relations Board ruled that the University of Maryland, College Park and Baltimore City Community College both violated state labor laws while bargaining with their respective unions. The decision is unusual, experts say: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Thousands of people will testify before delegates and senators in Annapolis this year, all trying to convince them to see issues their way, to vote in favor of their positions. Most will get two minutes. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Is this Morgan State policy a threat to free press? @elliew0lfe.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

NEW: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's redistricting commission plans to meet at 4 p.m. today to vote on recommending a new map of Congressional district boundaries. The meeting is not open to the public. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

📝Morgan State University, Maryland's largest HBCU, is being accused by multiple national advocacy orgs of censoring its student newspaper. I spoke with experts, current and former student journalists and faculty about the policy. Here's what you need to know: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

After a contentious renewal process, Baltimore is shutting down its only all-boys charter school. Two small traditional schools were also up for closure, but the board chose to kick the can down the road - to when they'll have a new CEO in charge of recommendations. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Catherine Torney was shot while attending a party at Towson University in 2021 and tried, unsuccessfully, to sue the public university. Now, the Maryland Supreme Court has agreed to hear her case. Read my latest with @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social:

In a district of more than 156,000 students, just 56 families asked Montgomery County school leaders to excuse their children from reading books that conflict with their religious beliefs. Many of the disputed titles had LGBTQ characters. Search the full list here: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

The University of Maryland, College Park spent $600,000 on an investigation that ultimately cleared President Darryll Pines of plagiarism allegations. But despite being vindicated by the findings, Pines and the university refuse to release the report: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

🚨: Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, will depart after three years to serve as the 10th president of Caltech. The leadership change comes at a time when Hopkins deals with repeated blows from the Trump administration. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

During the month of December, I traveled to a few pantries on college campus that give food and household supplies to students for free. Pantries have popped up on campuses in recent years as more and more students struggle with food insecurity. My latest: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

For my first story of 2026, I dug into the numbers defining a trend that has exploded in Maryland since the pandemic: homeschooling. There's been a 50% uptick since the 2019-20 school year, holding steady as public school enrollment declines www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

McDaniel College, private liberal arts college in Westminster, announced Thursday it will offer free graduate tuition to those who teach at a Baltimore County private school, as the state continues to grapple with a teacher shortage. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

It's déjà vu for Maryland's only all-boys charter school, which is again fighting a closure recommendation from Baltimore City Public Schools. The district says there are major academic, financial concerns; school leaders say they're already making major strides www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Maryland is boosting the share of foster kids living with family&loved ones, progress experts lauded, but the state still lags behind the national average. Have a story to share in Maryland foster or kinship care? I'd love to talk with you: [email protected] www.thebanner.com/community/fa...

University of Maryland Eastern Shore president sues ex-professor who accused her of plagiarism, @elliew0lfe.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

The president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is suing a former professor for defamation and seeking $1 million after being accused of plagiarizing her 1986 dissertation. The two meet in court tomorrow, here's what you need to know: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

BREAKING: University of Maryland College Park President Darryll Pines has been cleared of allegations he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation. Happy Friday night news dump! www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

At Johns Hopkins, a once-robust diversity office has quietly withered, shrinking from 14 staffers to three, pausing programs for underrepresented scholars and restricting race-based initiatives on campus. The disappearing diversity programs at Hopkins: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

New: The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has settled out of court a federal defamation lawsuit filed by the school’s former athletic director over his role in surfacing an abuse allegation. Here's what you need to know: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

New: The chancellor of the University System of Maryland said today he fears "irrevocable damage” to the state's public colleges as Maryland faces another billion dollar deficit. Lawmakers have slashed the system's budget by $222 million in the last two years. Read: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

The superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy spoke publicly for the first time about firing the commandant of midshipman, or dean of students, in yesterday's board meeting. You can read what he said in my latest for the @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Towson University will dissolve its women's and gender studies department due to low enrollment. Losing departmental status, the WGS chair told me, "feels like defeat." Read more: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

NEW: Thousands of Baltimore students can’t get to school on time because of unreliable transit. The city's school choice system complicates creating a yellow bus network for all. A new plan proves it can be done. w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

ICYMI, the latest investment in early ed: Baltimore is setting aside $500,000 in grant money to expand preschool access and will start to look at vacant and underutilized city buildings to possibly house child care and pre-K programs www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

High schoolers in pre-K classrooms? Whether as unpaid interns or paid aides, it's happening in Maryland. And those running preschool programs say it's a way to recruit (and then hopefully retain) a dwindling workforce as the state races to expand public pre-K www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

15 years ago, it looked like the effort to save the Chesapeake Bay had turned a corner. "There was a collective sense," said one longtime federal scientist, “that we had broken through." Today, he and others worry that, four decades in, the movement is losing steam: www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

New: A grad student at Johns Hopkins has been stranded in Canada for months after his visa was canceled at the border. He’s been incurring thousands in expenses without being paid by the university, which says it won’t petition officials for six months: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

A new federal student loan cap could make Maryland’s doctor shortage even worse. In my latest, I unpack how the Trump administration’s Grad PLUS changes may block low-income students and students of color from graduate programs across the state: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Morgan State University is one of the first colleges in the country to create its own sovereign artificial intelligence system. The university will soon run entirely on the AI, called Obsidian, which will advise students and grade assignments. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Breaking news: The commandant of midshipmen (dean of students) at the U.S. Naval Academy is out after six months due to “a loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead." This summer, the academy's first female superintendent was also removed. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Exclusive #RHOP news to @thebaltimorebanner.com : prosecutors are alleging that Wendy and Eddie Osefo used 40 credit cards and went by the aliases "Pam Oliver” + “Eddie Hennessy." The latest twist in their alleged insurance fraud. With @justinfenton.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

🚨Kurt Schmoke resigned from the Baltimore City Community College Board. Schmoke, the city's former mayor, also serves as the president of the University of Baltimore. He made headlines last month when he proposed a "consolidation" between BCCC and UBalt www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Scoop: Reps for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank have been lobbying Gov. Wes Moore’s office in an effort to persuade Maryland to buy Plank’s horse farm, email show. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Exclusive to the @thebaltimorebanner.com: Johns Hopkins has spent nearly double this year on federal lobbyists. The university has spent $1.3 million so far, with money going directly to an associate of Trump to lobby to the Executive Office of the President: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

MacKenzie Scott has announced yet another gift to a Maryland HBCU. The billionaire philanthropist gave $50 million to Bowie State University, the largest gift in the school’s history. Read more: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...