252 days ago - With Spring Break ’08 set to begin Monday around the region, college-bound high schoolers will be sorting through pamphlets and packing up mini-vans, preparing for the all-important college visits.

Students praise floating classroom, lessons learned in faraway lands

361 days ago - Halle Schlather had heard about apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Cambodia, but only after she saw the “Whites Only” signs and walked by human bones left to rot did she understand the suffering in those countries.

On the voyage to global learning

361 days ago - Michael Zoll, 46, serves as vice president of enrollment and student affairs for the Institute for Shipboard Education, known for its Semester at Sea program. More than a year ago, Zoll joined the 44-year-old institute after working as vice provost of student affairs for St. Mary’s College of California.

Navigating a lucrative career

368 days ago - The Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies in Linthicum launched the Workboat Mate Program this year to train people with little or no maritime experience to work as mates on tugboats, which pull barges that transport millions of dollars worth of goods around the world. Training director Walt Megonigal, program manager Vic Tufts, executive director Glen Paine and academic business development manager Capt. Bob Becker talk about their new school and its advantages over a traditional four-year college.

Year-round commitment builds leaders

389 days ago - One of the most important goals of the U.S. Naval Academy, officials say, is to prepare its students for leadership — in the Navy.

Career schools a growing part of upper-level education

410 days ago - Career and technical schools make up the fastest-growing segment of higher education as more adults decide four-year universities aren’t for them, and the stigma dismissing for-profit institutions as diploma mills fades.

Specializing in careers at technical schools

410 days ago - Shar Shanti serves as college director of ITT Technical Institute’s Owings Mills campus, the only ITT branch in Maryland. The school opened in Maryland in 2005 and now enrolls 700 students. ITT has 93 campuses across the nation, with 49,000 students.

Growing and aging gracefully

445 days ago - Nothing says West Baltimore skyline quite like the towering halls of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Two centuries at the heart of Baltimore

445 days ago - The University of Maryland, Baltimore, is the founding institution of the University System of Maryland.

Citigroup exec Flaherty to chair JHU board

514 days ago - Citigroup Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Pamela Flaherty will take over next month as the first woman chair of the Johns Hopkins University’s board of trustees, the university announced Monday.

UDC to seek fundraising replacement for Pollard

519 days ago - The University of the District of Columbia will seek an aggressive fundraiser to replace outgoing President William Pollard, Board of Trustees Chairman James Dyke Jr. said Wednesday.

More full-time students predicted at Maryland’s community colleges

521 days ago - The rising cost of higher education will drive more full-time students to community colleges in the next decade, according to the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

BCCC targets black males for enrollment

522 days ago - A new program that will be taught strictly by black male instructors and that encourages more black males to enroll in college and complete their education, takes off next fall at Baltimore City Community College’s Liberty Heights campus.