Too often, people who worked hard to get to college don’t end up getting through it. The reasons are myriad—financial, bureaucratic, logistical, and more—but the result is a tragic, all-too-familiar story of American inequality: Those most likely to be derailed are low-income and first-generation students, often from underrepresented communities of color.

ATLANTA–Georgia State University’s National Institute for Student Success (NISS) has received a $1.7 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to assist universities around the country in starting programs to continue to close achievement gaps and help more students earn a college degree.

Maryland universities ranked first among the nation’s top graduate programs and schools in three out of 15 categories.

Shortly after finalizing his college choice, high school senior Rob Meloni found himself up against another big decision: where to live his freshman year at the University of Maryland.

We have all seen, read about and been shocked and appalled by the recent rise in insults, bigotry and violence against our Asian American communities. Anti-Asian behavior — indeed bigotry and violence of any sort — has no place in our college or among our community. 

The University of Maryland recently assembled a group of Black student leaders, representing about 30 student organizations, to help advise university leaders on how to set an “anti-racist agenda,” announced Dr. Darryll Pines, the university’s president.

For Natalie Grandison, personal success is certainly something to celebrate, but positively impacting the lives of others in your work is where the real magic lies.

A team led by University of Maryland UAS Test Site Director Matt Scassero and University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) transplant surgeon Joseph Scalea has won the 2021 Helicopter Association International’s (HAI) Golden Hour Award, the organization announced Tuesday (March 9). 

February 25, 2021 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) proudly congratulates its newly elected Class of 2021 Honorary Fellows and Fellows. The induction ceremony for the new Honorary Fellows and Fellows will take place later this year.

The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) has awarded 13 higher education faculty, staff and students for their efforts to aid transfer students. It honored the recipients at its virtual annual conference held Feb. 23-25 before a record 950 attendees.