HEADLINES ARCHIVE

Change has swept through the University of Baltimore — and the surrounding neighborhood — over the past decade. Striking new academic buildings, an apartment building and the university's first dormitory have appeared among the brownstones of the Midtown neighborhood. New shops and restaurants brighten once-dingy blocks. Streets that were deserted after dark now buzz with students.

The Johns Hopkins University performed $2.1 billion in medical, science, and engineering research in fiscal 2011, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 33rd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking.

McDaniel College will launch a Global Fellows program this spring as a part of its expanding efforts to deliver a worldly education. The Global Initiatives process began at McDaniel last spring with the goal of comprehensive internationalization for the college, which will soon include having a Global Fellows program.

The association of State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) has released a new State Policy Resource Center (SPRC) report, The Economic Benefit of Postsecondary Degrees: A State and National Analysis.

On Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, Capitol College will be hosting the Maryland FIRST Robotics Competition’s (FRC) Kickoff event in the Avrum Gudelsky Memorial Auditorium. This is the ninth consecutive year that the college is hosting the kickoff event.

Johns Hopkins University officials pledged Thursday to spend $10 million over five years to boost neighborhoods surrounding the Homewood campus.

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III has traded in his badge for a tweed jacket. Bealefeld, who retired from the police force this summer after 31 years, has joined Stevenson University’s faculty as a full-time Distinguished Professional in Criminal Justice, the school said Monday.

Let's start with something I, as a university administrator, am not supposed to say or even think. The humanities and social sciences, the heart of the liberal arts — its students, its graduates, its practitioners — are doomed.

The myth that federal student aid drives up college tuition has been refuted by empirical evidence and by the real-world actions of colleges and universities. Studies conducted under the Clinton, Bush and Obama presidencies, as well as leading higher education economists, have found no causal relationship between increases in federal student aid and tuition.

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) will present the MICA Leadership Award to Gov. Martin O’Malley during the College’s 2012 Leadership Celebration & Salute on Thursday, Oct. 25. MICA also welcomes U.S. Senator Ben Cardin in this celebration of the newly renovated Graduate Studio Center (131 W. North Ave.).

St. John's College student Eric Fricke attended an ice cream social in September held by the Caritas Society, a group founded at the Annapolis college more than 40 years ago that assists students with financial hardships. At the time, Fricke attended solely for the free ice cream; he couldn't have imagined the group helping him through hardship.

For the second time in three years, a McDaniel master’s graduate has been named Maryland Teacher of the Year. Rhonda Holmes-Blankenship, an English teacher at Rising Sun High School in Cecil County, was named Oct. 5 as the 2012-13 Maryland Teacher of the Year.

Rhonda Holmes-Blankenship, an English teacher at Rising Sun High School in Cecil County, tonight was named the 2012-13 Maryland Teacher of the Year. State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery made the announcement during a dramatic gala in a ballroom filled with educators and dignitaries. Among those in attendance were Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, Rep. Donna Edwards, Rep. John Sarbanes, Comptroller Peter Franchot, and Attorney General Douglas Gansler.

The Maryland Institute College of Art broke ground this month for The Commons II, a five-story $16.5 million residence hall on North Avenue near Mount Royal Avenue that will provide housing for 240 students in 80 apartments when it opens by the fall of 2013.

Building on its reputation as a leader in international program opportunities for students, Loyola University Maryland is partnering with Newcastle University to open a science-focused study abroad center on Newcastle’s campus in the United Kingdom.