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Baltimore City Community College dates its origins to the Baltimore Junior College (BJC), founded as part of the Baltimore City Public Schools system in 1947 to provide post-high school education for returning World War II (1939/1941–1945) veteran soldiers and officers known as the Veterans Institute and was the inspiration of Harry Bard, its later dominant president and alumnus of the BCC.
There are currently 55 colleges and universities, defined as accredited, degree-granting, postsecondary institutions, in the state of Maryland.. The state's public universities are part of the University System of Maryland, with the exception of United States Naval Academy, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Morgan State University and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which ...
Each campus started as its own college, with Hunt Valley, Owings Mills, and Randallstown centers being extensions to Catonsville Community College, however, in 1998 the separate colleges of Catonsville, Dundalk, and Essex merged to form the Community College of Baltimore County.
Goucher College: Towson: 1885 2,362 [9] Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore: 1876 18,753 [10] Loyola University Maryland: Baltimore: 1852 6,028 [11] Maryland Institute College of Art: Baltimore: 1826 1,899 [12] Notre Dame of Maryland University: Baltimore: 1873 4,878 [13] Stevenson University: Owings Mills: 1947 3,579 [14]
The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (CAHSS) has 22 departments, and offers 30 Bachelor's, 16 Master's, and 6 Ph.D. programs. The college also includes several scholarship programs; the Linehan Artist Scholars Program, the Humanities Scholars Program, and the Sondheim Public Affairs ...
In 1976, Coastline Community College was launched as the first "college without walls", using television, a precursor today's online programs as well as using community facilities. As a result of budget struggles, community colleges relied more on part-time instructors, which made up 50 to 60 percent of the faculty by 1980. [ 31 ]
In March, 2008, Baltimore County and the Baltimore County Public Schools approved a new building design for Carver. The design reflects the large number of program areas that are required to be located on the first floor while creating an efficient 3-story academic wing above that maximizes daylighting opportunities for the classroom areas and ...
On April 8, 2007 The Baltimore Sun's Sara Neufeld stated in an article that the Baltimore City Public School budget was full of errors. A recent poll conducted by The Baltimore Sun and Annapolis pollster OpinionWorks July 8–10, 2007 recently revealed Baltimore citizens grim opinion of the system. Asked to grade the Baltimore public schools, 2 ...