Sounds like a waste of time at the University of Maryland-College Park: During a student forum held Thursday at the University of Maryland, Black Lives Matter advocates argued that activism should be taught in the…
Topic: Maryland
Remembering Josiah Henson
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are well-known former slaves and abolitionists in pre-American Civil War history, but Josiah Henson has been seemingly forgotten by history. At the Josiah Henson Leadership Conference held in the Maryland…
Mount St. Mary’s President Under Fire over Survey Controversy
From Campus Reform: President Simon Newman at Mount St. Mary’s University is facing criticism for firing two professors after they questioned his controversial retention plan, which would cut the lowest performing students from the incoming…
Emory University sends Students to Baltimore to Study Racism
Uh, that’s an interesting choice for a student field trip from Atlanta, Georgia to Baltimore, Maryland. Students from Emory University recently traveled to Baltimore for a four day trip centered around the arrest of Freddie…
Reading Racial Tea Leaves at University of Maryland
In this era of racial unrest, academic efforts to achieve understanding are welcome. Unfortunately, opportunities to misinterpret abound in academe. “Younger generations have made great strides,” Liam Farrell of the University of Maryland writes in…
Student Sues Community College for Preventing the Formation of a Conservative Club on Campus
Campus Reform with the latest: Moriah DeMartino, a student at Hagerstown Community College, is suing the school for refusing to let her establish a conservative student group on campus, Hypeline reports. “There is a lack…
One Public Charter School in West Baltimore is Trying to Change the Culture
As the Washington Examiner reported, one school is trying to change the education environment in poor, western Baltimore: …the Green Street Academy, a public charter school that opened its doors to a new building this…
Maryland College Student Can’t Start a Conservative Club since There isn’t a Non-Conservative Club
The College Fix has the latest on this: Moriah DeMartino’s uphill climb was covered by Campus Reform last month and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education this week. The Maryland school’s justification goes…
American University Law Professor Not a Fan of Conservative SCOTUS Justices
Campus Reform reported: In a recent op-ed for The Xenia Gazette, Jamie Raskin, a professor of Constitutional Law at American University and Maryland State Senator who is currently running for U.S. Congress, notes that four…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…