Throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore, four-legged friends such as Carmen are on duty helping their human companions with emotional and physical assistance.
Colleges
Mount’s partnership with local provider to yield on-campus health care services
A partnership between Mount St. Mary’s University and Seminary and local health care provider Frederick Health will facilitate enhanced wellness services not only for Mount students, student-athletes, staff and seminarians, but also for residents of northern Frederick County, said William Davies, vice president for business and finance at the Mount.
Terrence M. Sawyer named first lay president of Loyola University Maryland
The Loyola University Maryland Board of Trustees has unanimously selected Terrence M. Sawyer as the institution’s 25th president – the first lay president in the 169-year history of the Jesuit university in Baltimore.
Loyola University Maryland opens $40 million ‘new front door’ to Evergreen campus
“This building is a physical manifestation of having different disciplines come together,” Sawyer said.
College is an adventure: Three ways to keep your faith
The students who do these three things become better people after the journey’s end and are equipped for whatever life throws at them.
Trinity Washington University clears tuition debts for 540 students
Over 40% of Trinity Washington University’s full-time undergraduate students opened their emails from the university July 23 to learn they will start the school year with a clean financial slate, because the university paid off their outstanding debts.
Outgoing Loyola University Maryland president ‘squeezes sponge dry’
What makes Father Linnane especially proud is playing a role in increasing what he calls the “academic rigor” at Loyola and in dramatically increasing diversity on what had historically been a predominantly white campus.
Loyola Maryland, other Catholic colleges will require COVID-19 vaccinations in fall
Many colleges will require their students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and some schools also are mandating that staff and faculty members be vaccinated.
Local Catholic universities make pandemic adjustments for 2021 graduations
More than a year into the pandemic, coronavirus restrictions will still have a significant impact on graduation ceremonies at Catholic universities located in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Catholic themes in Shakespeare
As we commemorate the bard’s birthday in April, Christopher Gunty talks Shakespeare with Sean Lewis, associate professor of English at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, and Robert Miola, professor of English and a lecturer in classics at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.
Seton Shrine prayer hotline spurred by pandemic is so successful, it’ll continue
Buoyed by dedicated staff members and seminarians from nearby Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, the Seton Shrine in the Baltimore Archdiocese created a prayer hotline last April that has proven so successful, it plans to continue well after COVID-19 has receded.
Father Linnane to retire earlier than planned as president of Loyola University Maryland
Jesuit Father Brian Linnane, who announced in February that he was retiring as president of Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, said in a March 29 letter to the Loyola community that he has decided to step aside sooner. His last day will be June 30.