The University of Maryland is the latest local school to require students to add a vaccine requirement.

Classes have been mostly virtual since an outbreak of COVID-19 earlier this month.

The Virginia college is asking students to leave campus by Labor Day.

Some of the country’s most conservative universities are found in Virginia, according to a list produced by the Young America’s Foundation.

John Garvey has obviously been studying the trends: the new president of Catholic University of America announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday that students at the school would go back to living in same-sex dorms this fall.

Less than 24 hours after Maryland defeated Navy in the Crab Bowl Classic, the University unveiled former Army athletic director Kevin Anderson as the new athletic director in College Park. Anderson was selected late last week after a 17-person search committee deliberated over three finalists that also included University of Connecticut athletic director (and Maryland alumnus) Jeff Hathaway and University of Buffalo athletic director Warde Manuel.

The University of Maryland will name University of Iowa provost Wallace D. Loh as its new president according to the Washington Post. The University had been actively searching for a new president after C.D. Mote announced he would be retiring after a 12-year tenure in College Park.

On Monday, while reporting on a decision by George Washington University to establish a separate School of Nursing, I wrote that it was interesting news because nurses continue to be in high demand, even in the current recession. But reader Brian Schuh, currently a nursing student at Georgetown, emailed to take to me task, citing a Baltimore Business Journal story from last year that refutes that assertion. “The fact is that there has been a…

In these recessionary times, nurses are still in high demand, so it’s a significant development that George Washington University has announced plans to establish a separate School of Nursing, as the Washington Business Journal reported on Friday. Nursing degrees had already been available through the Department of Nursing Education inside the School of Medicine, but the separate school will allow the university to offer additional degrees like a master’s of science in nursing, a…

Southeastern University, which has been an institution with an incredibly murky future since losing its accreditation last August, has finalized a long-negotiated deal with the Graduate School to reopen as a private institution specializing in continuing education. Southeastern’s new overlords will likely use the name and campus to offer a broader mission, while trying to maintain at least some of the utility that the university had previously provided to District residents and international students….