In honor of National Transfer Student Week, McDaniel College announces that the college has been named among the most transfer-friendly colleges in the nation by Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, an international honor society for two-year colleges.
Widely respected for her contributions to higher education, McDaniel President Julia Jasken was named among The Baltimore Sun’s Women to Watch and chosen to The Daily Record’s 2024 Higher Education Power List. She was also appointed to the NCAA Division III Presidents Council. Additionally, McDaniel has again earned an Empowering Women Award from The Daily Record and continues to support the Carroll County Women’s Conference through the McDaniel Women's Leadership Network.
Math class often gets a bad rap, as Assistant Professor of Education Laura Albaugh Bitto ’04 is well aware. Bitto, a math teacher educator, is working to change this, and recently gained support in her mission with a yearlong fellowship from the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.
New faculty include Virginia Kuulei Berndt, Sociology; Ani Gesheva M.S. '23, Business Administration; Lt. Col. Jason Johnson, Military Science; Nicole O'Reilly, Social Work; Adriano Lima e Silva, Accounting; and Catherine Springer-Sapp, Kinesiology and Health Sciences. McDaniel has also promoted Lisa Buckler M.S. '06, Early Childhood Education; Gené Fouché, Theatre Arts; and Heidi MacGlaughlin M.S. '96, Deaf Education.
McDaniel student actors perform in a depiction of Moisés Kaufman’s thrilling drama based on the true events surrounding the downfall of the renowned playwright and author Oscar Wilde. Performances are Thursday, Oct. 3-Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre in WMC Alumni Hall. Note: the show contains adult material and is intended for mature audiences.
The annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture presents "Slavery in Two Worlds: East Africans in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean” by University of Virginia professor Kristina Richardson on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The Holloway Lecture features bestselling author and humorist Gina Barreca from the University of Connecticut on Thursday, Oct. 3. Both events take place at 7:30 p.m. in McDaniel Hall's Coley Rice Lounge and are free and open to the public.
McDaniel College welcomed the Class of 2028 — one of the college's largest incoming classes — with 540 first-year and transfer students during move-in and orientation events.
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