Tag: University of Maryland University College

News Roundup

UMUC Name Changing To University of Maryland Global Campus

University of Maryland University College is undergoing a name change and will now be known as University of Maryland Global Campus. According to UMGC, the efforts to transition to the new name will continue into next year as the new UMGC name and logo are placed on its website and other materials beginning this fall. […]

July 1, 2019

News Roundup

Maryland University System Awards 40K Degrees in 2017

Maryland’s network of public colleges is awarding degrees at a significantly higher rate than a decade ago. The Baltimore Sun reports that the 11 public colleges in the University System of Maryland issued more than 40,000 degrees in 2017. That’s a 42 percent increase over the 28,000 degrees handed out in 2008. The biggest increase […]

June 11, 2018

Latinx

Academics Must Get Out of Conference Comfort Zones

It’s important for educators to see the value of getting out of the ivory tower and connecting what academics do to real-world issues.

October 26, 2015

African-American

Drastic Fix Offered for Maryland Higher Ed

HBCU backers call for the merger of the University of Baltimore and Morgan State University as one step to end program duplication and the maintenance of unequal segregated systems.

May 8, 2015