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Part of a Stories Beneath the Shell series covering the appointment to dean of the University of Maryland’s journalism school. First published Thursday, April 6, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. He brought a cash-strapped University of Maryland journalism school badly-needed funding. He won the Scripps Howard Foundation’s grant for the college. He inspired the…

Journalism dean search: North Texas professor envisions gateway degree

Apr 6, 2023

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Part of a Stories Beneath the Shell series covering the appointment to dean of the University of Maryland’s journalism school. First published Thursday, April 6, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. A journalism professor who briefly blipped on the nation’s radar in 2015 after being stopped for walking while being Black, as she put it,…

Journalism dean search: Some raise concerns over candidate’s work for liberal think tank

Apr 6, 2023

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Part of a Stories Beneath the Shell series covering the appointment to dean of the University of Maryland’s journalism school. First published Thursday, April 6, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. One of the first things Sam Fulwood, who is a finalist to become dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, said at his…

Journalism dean search: Dean candidate brings experience in newsroom, but lots of controversial history

Mar 25, 2023

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Part of a Stories Beneath the Shell series covering the appointment to dean of the University of Maryland’s journalism school. First published Saturday, March 25, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. She’s doubled the number of reporters of color in her newsroom. She capitalized the “B” in Black before anyone else. She turned her newsroom…

UMD powwow showcases Native ‘resilience,’ brings communities together

Mar 14, 2023

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First published March 14, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. by Olivia Borgula Early Saturday morning, Adele H. Stamp Student Union filled with organizers in matching T-shirts weaving between chairs, attendees greeting old friends and dancers carting hangers of regalia into make-shift dressing rooms next door. In the center of the room, a circle of…

Joy on display at inaugural Black Prom

Feb 27, 2023

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First published Feb. 27, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. by James Matheson The Office of Multicultural Involvement Community Advocacy hosted its inaugural Black Prom Sunday in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom to celebrate the final days of Black History Month. Students got to dine on beef wellington, dance in flowing ball…

UMD students, staff mark first anniversary of Ukraine invasion with vigil

Feb 23, 2023

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First published Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. In the midst of happy students basking in the unusually warm February weather, dozens of Ukrainian students were rather more somber, standing around the McKeldin Mall sundial to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. “It’s been a year of…

Black Monologues event amplifies Black voices through poetry

Feb 21, 2023

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First published Feb. 21, 2023 in Stories Beneath the Shell. By Marissa Yelenik “Some people have the privilege to dress down, to have wilder hair colors, to have visible tattoos and still be perceived as ‘professional enough,’ I do not,” said senior biology and anthropology major Nina St. Hillaire, performing an entry from her journal. …

PSA from then to now: How the group has evolved and what it hopes to achieve

Dec 16, 2022

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