Winners were announced during the opening reception of the Kathryn E. Wentz Juried Undergraduate Exhibition on Thursday, March 26. The exhibition runs through Friday, April 10, in McDaniel College's Esther Prangley Rice Gallery.
McDaniel College’s Admissions Office, along with the Green Terror, surprised five high school seniors from Anne Arundel and Carroll counties in Maryland and Lititz, Pennsylvania, with full four-year scholarships as the college’s newest Dorsey Scholars for the Class of 2030. The Dorsey Scholars Program is the highest academic honor at McDaniel.
Five Baltimore City high school seniors from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove, Green Street Academy, and REACH! Partnership School are recipients of full-tuition scholarships to attend McDaniel College as part of the Class of 2030. Each scholarship covers full tuition for all four years at McDaniel, valued at approximately $200,000 each.
Representatives from McDaniel College surprised Westminster High School senior Jacob Noonan with the Carroll County Scholars full-tuition scholarship, valued at approximately $200,000 over four years. Noonan is the inaugural recipient of the scholarship, which is awarded to one Carroll County student who has participated in McDaniel's Carroll County Scholars program.
Alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends showed their support for current and future McDaniel students during the 1867 Challenge, McDaniel College's annual giving campaign. The entire McDaniel community came together to raise $378,152 from 522 donors in 1,867 minutes to honor the college's founding year as part of "Reaching New Heights: The Campaign for McDaniel College."
The 1867 Challenge, an annual giving campaign to support current and future generations of McDaniel College students, kicks off Wednesday, March 11, beginning at 9 a.m., until Thursday, March 12, at 4:07 p.m. That’s 1,867 minutes of giving in honor of the year the college was founded.
McDaniel College President Julia Jasken has announced the creation of the college’s first comprehensive school, a new School of Business and Technology, which is targeted to open as early as fall 2027. McDaniel is launching a national search for the inaugural dean of the School of Business and Technology, along with a new Endowed Professor of Computer Science and Technology Innovation.
McDaniel College’s Art department presents the annual student honors exhibition. Titled “Fragments of Becoming,” the exhibition runs Tuesday, March 3-Friday, March 20, in McDaniel’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery. An opening reception takes place Thursday, March 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 6 p.m.
McDaniel College students perform in McDaniel College Theatre’s production of “9 to 5: The Musical.” Performances are Thursday, March 5–Saturday, March 7, 7:30 p.m., in the Mainstage Theatre in WMC Alumni Hall. Note: the show contains adult material and is intended for mature audiences.
Provost Flavius R.W. Lilly, Ph.D., has been named president at Muskingum University in Ohio and will be leaving McDaniel College at the end of the spring semester. Plans are underway to launch a national search for the college’s next provost.
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