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Advocates for private liberal arts colleges are becoming as politically isolated as moderate Republicans. (For better or worse, I am both.) Democrats want to ramp up huge taxpayer subsidies for public schools only, while Republicans like U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio want more welders and fewer philosophy majors. (I was one of those too.) 

 

When Sara Kouroupis told her parents she wanted to major in engineering, the you-know-what hit the fan.

Haroon Pasha said he learned during a hajj pilgrimage what it’s like to have only what he could carry.

For Pasha, a Hood College senior graduating this month, the journey in Saudi Arabia was an important part of his Muslim faith. He said there was a period when he and his parents left behind nearly all of their possessions. He recalled staying in a valley one night.

Senior Tracee Haupt took first prize at the Mid-Atlantic Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Conference for her paper, “The NASA Art Program: Technology, Art, and Contested Visions of Progress, 1962-1973,” which charted NASA’s efforts to use artists to help influence public opinion of the space program.

Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management received reaccreditation for its business and accounting degree programs by the International Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools.

The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) and McDaniel College announce the inaugural class of 11 Howard County students to receive the Teachers for Tomorrow (T4T) scholarships.

Baltimore 3-D printing company Jimmi is the first member and partner at Open Works, the city's upcoming makerspace.

 

Annapolis is blessed. How many other places of its size can say they are home to not one but two great institutions of higher learning that — in contrasting ways — strengthen American culture?

I applaud The Sun for calling attention to the importance of having college faculty members who are representative of the students they teach ("Minority faculty still underrepresented on Maryland campuses, straining professors and students," April 17). I can attest to both the challenge of looking for minority role models and the extra duties that face minority faculty members.

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School teacher Athanasia Kyriakakos was named Baltimore City Public Schools’ 2016 teacher of the year.

City Schools CEO Gregory Thornton surprised her with the award Monday morning during a visit to her class.

International Security and Intelligence (ISI) is a program offered at Mounth St. Mary's University in association with the Cambridge Security initiative (CSi). This 3-week, highly comnpetitive summer course runs from July 18-Aug 5, 2016.

Shalonda Holt, a 2012 graduate of McDaniel’s Curriculum and Instruction master’s degree program, has been named the Washington Post’s 2016 Teacher of the Year. Holt, a Centennial High School teacher, was also recently named the Howard County Public School System’s Teacher of the Year.

Harrison Tyler studied sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, but the entrepreneur was on campus Saturday to teach others how to build their own 3D printers.

When the Johns Hopkins University board met last November to talk about an initiative aimed at improving the city's economic prospects by hiring more local and minority-owned firms and more local and minority workers, one trustee asked why more prominent Baltimore companies and institutions weren't doing the same.

Hood College students joined students from the 12 other MICUA member institutions for a day in Annapolis to lobby and thank their state delegates and senators for their support of higher education.