University of Mary’s community for student moms celebrates its first graduate May 10, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When Katie Chihoski walked the graduation stage at the University of Mary April 27, she was holding both her hard-earned bachelor’s degree in social work and her 18-month-old daughter Lucia.
At Notre Dame of Maryland, men and women navigate historic change at formerly all-women’s university May 9, 2024By Gary Lambrecht Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Men were welcomed at the historically all-women university for the first time 1975 in the school’s Weekend College for adult undergraduate students and they were welcomed into graduate programs beginning in 1984, but the university did not go fully co-ed until this academic year.
Innovative group of speakers highlights Catholic university commencement ceremonies in Archdiocese of Baltimore May 7, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News A nationally renowned librarian, a beloved retiring university president, a dedicated academic and Maryland’s first secretary of service and innovation are the featured commencement speakers at Maryland’s four Catholic universities this May.
Pope laments ‘liberal’ universities that lack holistic formation May 4, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said that some universities are “too liberal” and do not place enough emphasis on forming their students into whole people.
Amid protests, Columbia University Catholic chaplain urges prayer, charity May 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Recently, Columbia University in New York has become the epicenter of U.S. college protests and encampments demanding an end to U.S. support of Israel, now at war with Hamas following that group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on approximately 22 locations in Israel.
Loyola University Maryland awards $25,000 to four ventures May 1, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland’s Simon Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded a total of $25,000 to four ventures that participated in the center’s Baltipreneurs Accelerator, a four-month part-time program supporting startup businesses and social ventures with training, technical assistance, mentorship, networking and access to capital.
Federal, state grants to help Loyola University upgrade York Road facility April 19, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News The university announced April 19 that it received $1 million in federal funding and $225,000 in state funding to renovate and create a community hub at its multipurpose facility at 5104 York Road.
Catholic schools in Maryland find use for solar eclipse glasses April 15, 2024By Todd Karpovich Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Environment, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Catholic schools around Maryland were tasked to find a place for all of those discarded glasses.
Father Byron, former economics professor at Loyola University Maryland, recalled as ‘visionary leader’ April 12, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Obituaries, World News Jesuit Father William J. Byron, known for his leadership of Jesuit institutions of higher learning and his many years of lecturing, teaching and writing on the relationship between business practices and Catholic spirituality, died at Manresa Hall, the health center of the Jesuit community at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia April 9. He was 96.
First Ascent program to offer glimpse of life at Mount April 10, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Mount St. Mary’s University plans to give high school students a first-hand glimpse of life at a small Catholic liberal arts college in June.
Deadly shooting at subway station near Catholic U. prompts temporary shelter-in-place order April 5, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News In the hours after a Washington teenage boy was shot and killed April 4 on the platform of the Brookland-CUA Metro station, The Catholic University of America canceled evening classes and athletic practices and advised students to shelter in place as police officials investigated the incident.
Catholic UMBC students immerse themselves in service during mission to Guatemala April 5, 2024By Eileen Hiebler Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Inspired by their faith, nine students from the Catholic community of University of Maryland Baltimore County recently completed a service trip to Guatemala March 16-23.
