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Named after Calvert County, Maryland, as well as Charles Benedict Calvert, the founder of the Maryland Agricultural College, predecessor of the University of Maryland. Calvert Hall is currently the oldest dorm on campus. It was the first men's dormitory to be built after the Great Fire of 1912. In 1960 the 5th floor was renovated. [69 ...
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. UMD is the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area.
In 2017, a federal endowment tax was enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the form of an excise tax of 1.4% on institutions that have at least 500 tuition-paying students and net assets of at least $500,000 per student. The $500,000 is not adjusted for inflation, so the threshold is effectively lowered over time.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A university campus in Vermont has come up for auction. The minimum opening bid for the 155-acre grounds of now-defunct Green Mountain College, appraised four years ago at ...
The Iribe Center (/ ˈ iː r iː b /; officially known as the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation) is a building at the University of Maryland, College Park that is used primarily for computer science education and research. It replaced the university's previous computer science buildings, the Computer Science Instruction ...
In 2019, the university announced that its name would change to "University of Maryland Global Campus." [18] The name change request was submitted as SB 201 [19] and HB 319 [20] in the 2019 regular session of the Maryland General Assembly. The name change was enacted into law on April 18, 2019 when the bill was signed by Maryland Governor Larry ...
Morrill Hall is the oldest continuously-used academic building on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.Built in 1898 in the Second Empire architectural style for $24,000, [2] it was the sole academic building left untouched by The Great Fire of 1912 which devastated almost all of campus.
McKeldin Mall at University of Maryland, College Park, November 2013. McKeldin Mall is a nine-acre quad in the heart of the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. Named after Theodore McKeldin, the former Governor of Maryland, McKeldin Mall was considered to be the largest academic mall in the United States on its ...