Ellie Wolfe
New Englander covering higher education at the @thebaltimorebanner.com, say hi + send tips: ellie.wolfe@thebaltimorebanner.com
- 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...
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- 💸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...
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- 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...
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- 📝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...
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- 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:
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
- Just two weeks after the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition formally separated from Johns Hopkins, the organization has ceased operations due to financial hardship. The org runs a recovery center, homeless shelter, and more: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- BREAKING: Tuition at Johns Hopkins University will be free for students from families making less than $200,000. For families making under $100,000, tuition and living expenses will be covered. The change is taking effect this spring: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- BLEXIT arrived at Bowie State University yesterday with a message: “Happy Homecoming! Please leave the Democratic Party.” Inside the group’s visit, as well as how students and university officials reacted, in my latest story: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- The University System of Maryland, which includes 11 of the state’s public universities, has achieved its highest enrollment recorded to date. Universities in the system are educating 178,131 students this fall, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. Read: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- Morgan State University President David Wilson got a mysterious phone call at the start of October: a confidential high profile donor was interested in giving to the HBCU. Two weeks later, $63 million was in the university’s bank account. Here’s what happened: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- Weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah, the student group he co-founded claims the University of Maryland, College Park violated its free-speech rights with a $148.52 security fee: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- Seven colleges in Maryland are now using direct admissions programs. That means students are receiving acceptances without actually applying to the schools. One Maryland university sent out 450,000 direct admit offers last year (!!!!!). Read my latest: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- ICYMI: Marylou Yam, president of Notre Dame of Maryland University, will retire this spring after 12 years of leadership. She saw the university through a number of changes, including in 2022 when the historically all-women college began admitting men. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- A 31-year-old man was arrested for attempting to rape someone on the Johns Hopkins University campus, school and law enforcement officials announced today. The man arrested has an extensive criminal history and has served time before. With @sararuberg.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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- I worked with the great @brendawintrode.bsky.social on my latest: Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus after a school official told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- Faculty at Baltimore City Community College were "blindsided" by Kurt Schmoke's plan to merge their employer with the University of Baltimore, the faculty union rep said at BCCC's Board of Trustees meeting. Here's the latest in the merger saga: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- BREAKING: Morgan State University has received the largest donation in its 158-year history: $63 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift is unrestricted, meaning the HBCU can spend the money however it wants. Here's what you should know: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- Former Baltimore City Public Schools instructors are suing the system and a contracted nonprofit for months’ worth of payments they haven’t received. The teachers allege they haven’t been paid for work they did in April, May and June. By @kris10griffith.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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- Loved spending my morning at Impact Maryland, the @thebaltimorebanner.com’s annual leadership conference. I got to watch a panel featuring a few university presidents, which is always a treat! Our coverage: www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
- Kurt Schmoke is pitching a big idea: an “institutional consolidation” of the University of Baltimore and Baltimore City Community College. Schmoke, president of the university and chair of BCCC’s board, is already beginning his campaign. Our exclusive: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- Take a peek inside UMBC's Garrett collection, one of the world’s largest archives devoted to the study of hauntings, poltergeists, out-of-body experiences and seances. Happy spooooooky season, Maryland: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
- Ava Tasker-Mitchell felt so threatened during a call with the Somerset County school board chair that the superintendent left town, afraid for her safety, reports @lizbowie.bsky.social. Read: "Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired" www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
- Breaking news: Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, announced today her doctoral dissertation will be "assessed" after the @thebaltimorebanner.com reported last week chunks of the paper were allegedly plagiarized: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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- Scoop: Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, is accused of plagiarizing parts of her 1986 dissertation. Read about the accusation against the HBCU president, and see a side by side comparison, only in @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
