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Ellie Wolfe
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Proud graduate of Bates College covering higher education at the @thebaltimorebanner.com, say hi + send tips: [email protected]
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING: Morgan State University has received the largest donation in its 158-year history: $63 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift is unrestricted, meaning the HBCU can spend the money however it wants. Here's what you should know:
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MacKenzie Scott gives Morgan State its largest donation ever
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now given Morgan State University a total of $103 million.
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Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social · 4h
“This is very much an all-hands-on-deck sort of battlefield triage,” Earl Stoddard, the county’s assistant chief administrative officer, said of cuts to federal grant programs
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Montgomery County leaders say they will stretch the budget — to a point
Montgomery County leaders say they can plug some of the holes the federal government is punching in the local economy — but not all.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 1d
Former Baltimore City Public Schools instructors are suing the system and a contracted nonprofit for months’ worth of payments they haven’t received. The teachers allege they haven’t been paid for work they did in April, May and June. By @kris10griffith.bsky.social:
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Art teachers sue Baltimore City schools, nonprofit for missing pay
The teachers, employed through Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center, allege they haven’t been paid for work they did months ago, putting them behind on rent and car payments.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 1d
By @elliew0lfe.bsky.social: Kurt Schmoke’s bid to save a struggling college. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
Kurt Schmoke’s bid to save a struggling college
Kurt Schmoke, president of the University of Baltimore, has a new idea to help stabilize the embattled university: consolidation with Baltimore City Community College.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 1d
Loved spending my morning at Impact Maryland, the @thebaltimorebanner.com’s annual leadership conference. I got to watch a panel featuring a few university presidents, which is always a treat!

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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 1d
Kurt Schmoke is pitching a big idea: an “institutional consolidation” of the University of Baltimore and Baltimore City Community College. Schmoke, president of the university and chair of BCCC’s board, is already beginning his campaign. Our exclusive:
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Kurt Schmoke’s bid to save a struggling college
Kurt Schmoke, president of the University of Baltimore, has a new idea to help stabilize the embattled university: consolidation with Baltimore City Community College.
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Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz.bsky.social · 5d
There's a university in Baltimore with a huge archive of ghostly things. Who knew! 👻
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 5d
Take a peek inside UMBC's Garrett collection, one of the world’s largest archives devoted to the study of hauntings, poltergeists, out-of-body experiences and seances. Happy spooooooky season, Maryland:
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School spirit(s): Inside the ghost archives at UMBC
UMBC has one of the world’s largest parapsychology collections, including ghostly items such as seance photos and notes supposedly scrawled by spirits.
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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · 5d
Every line of this story was a delight. I had no idea where @elliew0lfe.bsky.social was going to go — but it was such a fun read!
School spirit(s): Inside the ghost archives at UMBC
UMBC has one of the world’s largest parapsychology collections, including ghostly items such as seance photos and notes supposedly scrawled by spirits.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 5d
Take a peek inside UMBC's Garrett collection, one of the world’s largest archives devoted to the study of hauntings, poltergeists, out-of-body experiences and seances. Happy spooooooky season, Maryland:
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
School spirit(s): Inside the ghost archives at UMBC
UMBC has one of the world’s largest parapsychology collections, including ghostly items such as seance photos and notes supposedly scrawled by spirits.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 8d
Ava Tasker-Mitchell felt so threatened during a call with the Somerset County school board chair that the superintendent left town, afraid for her safety, reports @lizbowie.bsky.social. Read: "Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired"
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Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired
Somerset County’s school board accused its superintendent of insubordination. She said the board chair threatened her before she left town.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 9d
Breaking news: Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, announced today her doctoral dissertation will be "assessed" after the @thebaltimorebanner.com reported last week chunks of the paper were allegedly plagiarized:
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore president’s work will be reviewed for plagiarism
Anderson is accused of lifting several paragraphs from a 1981 paper by Robert M. Caldwell without citations.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 12d
University of Maryland Eastern Shore president accused of plagiarism by former professor, @elliew0lfe.bsky.social report. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
University of Maryland Eastern Shore president accused of plagiarism
Heidi Anderson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president, is accused of lifting multiple paragraphs verbatim from a scholarly article and improperly citing information in her 1986 doctoral disse...
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 12d
Scoop: Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, is accused of plagiarizing parts of her 1986 dissertation. Read about the accusation against the HBCU president, and see a side by side comparison, only in @thebaltimorebanner.com:
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore president accused of plagiarism
Heidi Anderson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president, is accused of lifting multiple paragraphs verbatim from a scholarly article and improperly citing information in her 1986 doctoral disse...
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 12d
Missing paychecks, incorrect payments and withholding errors have burdened hundreds of Baltimore County Public Schools educators in the last month, reports @kris10griffith.bsky.social:
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It’s payday. Baltimore County teachers are worried.
A bumpy transition to a new payroll system has Baltimore County Public Schools staff on edge.
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Maya Lora @mayaklora.bsky.social · 15d
The child care scholarship is the main way Maryland families get help with child care. Since many can't afford it otherwise, day cares and preschools rely on vouchers to fill spots. So what happens when the program gets frozen - and doesn't come back when predicted? www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
State extends the child care scholarship freeze indefinitely
The state projected getting back down to 40,000 child care scholarships by September. But the program is still thousands of vouchers over budget.
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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 18d
New w/ @elliew0lfe.bsky.social: : The Trump administration will begin to charge $100k each for visas that UMD and Hopkins use to hire researchers, scientists and professors.

Among the affected? A Ukrainian researcher who may be forced to go home.

“I am terrified"

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Ukrainian researcher’s future in doubt as Trump’s H-1B visa costs hit Hopkins, UMD
Looking at Donald Trump’s new changes to H-1B visas, which now include a hefty $100,000 fee. Will Maryland colleges start hiring less foreign born faculty because of it?
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 20d
I wrote my first ever obituary this week, about a Morgan State professor and former dean who truly transformed the lives of those he taught.

"Clayton Creswell Stansbury Jr. was the epitome of Morgan State University"

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Morgan State marshal, alumni and dean was the epitome of the university
Clayton Creswell Stansbury Jr. was once Morgan State’s director of student affairs, head of the honors program and its longest-serving marshal.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 22d
Today in Maryland higher ed news: The University System of Maryland Chancellor spoke about the "crippling" federal + state cuts the USM has faced, while the president of Johns Hopkins University announced their hiring freeze is continuing. Read:
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‘Crippling’ federal cuts could prompt layoffs at Maryland's public universities
In the last two years, the state has cut the public university system‘s budget by $233 million. The sharp cuts have been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s reductions in federal grants, financi...
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Kristen Griffith @kris10griffith.bsky.social · 23d
The national Blue Ribbon program has come to an end. @mayaklora.bsky.social wrote about what Maryland educators had to say about it.
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With the loss of Blue Ribbon program, Maryland school leaders are on their own
To “return education to the states,” the U.S. Department of Education ended the national Blue Ribbon program. Maryland education leaders need to find a new way to honor their shining schools.
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Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social · 28d
Montgomery County’s first LGBTQ+ center opened last month, at a crucial moment for the queer community. But advocates told me this is just the beginning, and that elected officials need to prioritize issues like housing and transit that impact marginalized people www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
At a crucial moment, Montgomery County's first LGBTQIA+ center opens
The MoCo Pride Center opens as the Trump administration tries to roll back protections for queer people.
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Maya Lora @mayaklora.bsky.social · 29d
It's been over five years since the onset of COVID-19, which means the babies born into the pandemic are off to pre-K 4 and kindergarten. How exactly can teachers support these kiddos, who spent their earliest years in isolation? I dug into it: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
The pandemic babies are off to pre-K and kindergarten
In a major pandemic milestone, the babies born during the early days of COVID-19 are finally old enough to start school.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · Sep 13
More than two dozen Maryland professors were placed on Charlie Kirk’s professor watchlist. Some now worry about their own safety now that Kirk is dead. Others are grappling with how to mourn someone that caused trauma in their own lives. Read:
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Maryland professors were targeted by Charlie Kirk. Now what?
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday, some of his professor targets in Maryland worry for their own safety and feel anxious about the climate of distrust he sowed among young people.
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · Sep 12
NEW: The Trump administration is proposing cutting all funding for TRIO, a set of programs that helps low-income, first-generation students attend college. More than 12,000 Marylanders relied on the program last year. Here’s the potential impact:
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Program for thousands of Maryland's students on the chopping block
The Trump administration in its proposal called TRIO a “relic of the past,” adding “access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means.”
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · Sep 10
NEW: St. John's College, which recently laid off 5% of its staff amidst declining enrollment + the departure of its president, is sticking with its Great Books curriculum despite a rise in AI. Read my profile of the college as it reaches a reckoning point:
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As universities chase AI, St. John’s College doubles down on Great Books
St. John's College in Annapolis quaintly calls its professors “tutors” who guide small groups of undergraduates through vigorous examinations of the so-called Great Books of literature, science and mo...
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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · Sep 3
⚕️: Notre Dame of Maryland University has officially completed its merger with the Maryland University of Integrative Health, making NDMU the nation’s first comprehensive university with a school solely dedicated to integrative health. Read:
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Integrative health school opens at Notre Dame of Maryland University
Notre Dame of Maryland University has become the nation’s first comprehensive university with a school solely dedicated to integrative health.
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