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The University System of Maryland on Wednesday approved an increase in tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. The Board of Regents voted in favor of an increase that the university said in a statement would average 2% for in-state undergraduates and 5% for out-of-state undergraduates, as well as all graduate students. The hike comes after tuition and fees were frozen for the current academic year, owing to financial hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic. Chancellor Jay Perman called the increases “reasonable” in the statement, adding that the system was still “competitive with th...

Josh joust, wing shortage, helping Canada: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama © Ruth White/Shopper News Kiva Dunes in Gulf Shores, Ala., in July 2020. Montgomery: Tourist spending in the state dropped 20% last year at the height of pandemic lockdowns and business closings, but Alabama fared better than most during the coronavirus crisis, state tourism officials said. A statement from the Alabama Tourism Department said a travel consulting firm found a nationwide decline of 42% in travel expenditures, but the state’s decrease was...

University System of Maryland to Mandate CCP Virus Vaccines for Students, Faculty, and Staff The University System of Maryland (USM) will require students, faculty, and staff at its 12 institutions to be vaccinated against the CCP virus in the fall semester, according to a press release from the school. “We’ve been living with COVID for so long now that we forget we’re still in the middle of a public health emergency. But these variants—and the increasing disease burden in young people—are reminding us again that we’re not out of the woods,” USM Chancellor Jay Perman said in a s...

April 23, 2021 - 6:29 AM BALTIMORE - Maryland's public higher education system will require that students, faculty and staff returning to campuses in the fall be vaccinated against COVID-19. University System of Maryland Chancellor Jay Perman announced the decision in a statement Friday. The system will allow appropriate exemptions for medical or religious reasons, the statement said. “If we examine the data — and there is an extraordinary accumulation of data — we see that the risk of vaccines is very low, whereas the risk of COVID is very high. And that risk i...

Maryland's public higher education system will require that students, faculty and staff returning to campuses in the fall be vaccinated against COVID-19.