Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca,New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. Ithaca College is known for its media-related programs and entertainment programs within the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Ithaca College School of Music,Theatre,and Dance. The college has a liberal arts focus,and offers several pre-professional programs,along with some graduate programs.
Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson,Maryland. Founded in 1885 as a non-denominational women's college in Baltimore's central district,the college is named for pastor and missionary John F. Goucher,who enlisted local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church to establish the school's charter. Goucher relocated to its present Towson campus in 1953 and became coeducational in 1986.
Janet Dudley-Eshbach,Ph.D. became president of Salisbury University in Salisbury,Maryland in June 2000. She is the eighth president and the first woman to hold that office in the seventy-five year history of the university. In 2005,she was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2005 by the Maryland Daily Record. She retired in June 2018.
James Donald Freeze,S.J. was the Academic Vice President for the main campus of Georgetown University from 1979 to 1991. In this role,he supervised all academic programs of Georgetown's College of Arts and Sciences,School of Foreign Service,School of Language and Linguistics,School of Business Administration,Graduate School,and School for Summer and Continuing Education.
Verna L. Jones-Rodwell is an American politician who represented the 44th legislative district in the Maryland State Senate. Senator Jones-Rodwell was also the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland from 2007 to 2008.
Anne Healey is an American politician. She is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,representing District 22 in Prince George's County since 1991. She previously served on the City Council in Hyattsville,Maryland from 1987 to 1990.
Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar is an American journalist,author,and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.
Clark Simpson Hobbs was a reporter,columnist,and editor. His writing led to the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission and his appointment as Chairman. He was also Vice President of Goucher College.
David S. Cordish is an American real estate developer,son of Paul L. Cordish,and the third generation CEO and Chairman of The Cordish Companies.
Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who served as the 14th president of Cornell University from April 2017 to June 2024. From 2013 to 2017,she was the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan.
Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland,Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and formerly chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2015. With her research group,she holds ten patents. On April 4,2022,it was announced that Ashby would assume the position of president of the University of Maryland,Baltimore County.
Nina Semyonovna Youshkevitch was a Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher. After a notable dancing career an injury forced her retirement,and she became a prominent ballet teacher and choreographer.
Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker is an American historian and professor emerita at Goucher College,where she was the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. Baker was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982.
Gertrude Carman Bussey was an American academic philosopher and activist for women's rights,civil liberties,and peace.
Judy Jolley Mohraz is an American women's studies historian. She is a former president of Goucher College and the inaugural chief executive officer and president of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Mohraz is the second woman to serve as Goucher's president and the college's ninth president. Mohraz was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors in 1996. She is a former long-time professor and associate provost of Southern Methodist University. Mohraz is the author of The Separate Problem,a collection of case studies of Black education in the Northern United States from 1900 to 1930.
William Hersey Hopkins was an American academic who served as the first president of Goucher College and acting president of St. John's College in Annapolis,Maryland.
Dr Clara Latimer Bacon was a mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Maryland voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,incumbent President Donald Trump,and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee,former Vice President Joe Biden,and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Maryland has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Aletheia McCaskill is an American politician and union activist who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 44B in Baltimore County,Maryland. She was previously a candidate for District 44 of the Maryland Senate in 2018.
Lois H. Feinblatt (1922–2022) was an American nurse and professor of psychiatry who made contributions to sexual therapy and mental health.
