Students from McDaniel's Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Occupational Therapy programs participated in the college’s inaugural White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 6, which was held during Parent & Family Weekend. Overall, 34 Nursing students and 24 Occupational Therapy students were honored at the ceremony.
McDaniel College has established partnerships with The Arc Carroll County and Target Community & Educational Services, Inc., to provide high-quality, community-based clinical learning experiences for students in McDaniel’s new Occupational Therapy and developing Speech-Language Pathology graduate programs.
Update: Carroll County Teacher of the Year Emily Brynes M.S. ’24, who earned a master’s degree in Educational Leadership, has been named a finalist for the 2027 Maryland Teacher of the Year.
Six students who graduated from McDaniel College on May 23 with a major in Elementary Education or minor in Secondary Education along with one graduate student who is completing the Master of Science in Teaching program were named Teachers of Promise by the Maryland State Department of Education. McDaniel’s Education program boasts an almost 100% retention rate for early-career educators who are still working in the profession after five years.
Funding received by Frederick County Public Schools through the State of Maryland’s Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to partner with McDaniel College provides an opportunity for conditionally-licensed special education teachers to enroll debt-free in McDaniel’s post-baccalaureate certificate program.
McDaniel College’s new M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) has been granted candidacy status for accreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Applications open July 18 for students interested in being part of the inaugural cohort to begin in May 2027.
At McDaniel’s 2026 Graduate Commencement Ceremony, 332 students celebrated the achievement of earning their master’s degrees, conferred from 17 programs. Three special awards were presented during the ceremony: two student awards were given to master’s degree recipients, while a faculty award was presented to a senior online graduate adjunct lecturer in Educational Leadership.
All 720 of them. A diverse group, they have 34 different undergraduate majors and are from 17 graduate programs. They traveled from 29 countries and 30 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Want to know more? Top majors? How many are College Scholars? What was the most popular study abroad destination? Read on!
McDaniel College celebrates its 156th Commencement for the Class of 2026 on Saturday, May 23. The graduate ceremony begins at 10 a.m., followed by the undergraduate ceremony at 2 p.m. Both ceremonies take place in the college’s Gill Center. A livestream is available online at mcdaniel.edu/commencement.
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