Salisbury University students have new opportunities to reach for the stars thanks to a Space Act Agreement signed between SU and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The partnership is expected to provide enhanced experiential learning opportunities for SU students at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
In 1962, Salisbury University launched its first graduate program, the M.Ed. Since then, SU’s graduate offerings have grown to include 14 master’s and two doctoral programs. More than half a century since that first program was approved, they have a new home at the new Graduate School at SU.
Over 100 entrepreneurs have made their dreams a reality with the help of Salisbury University’s Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation Shore Hatchery entrepreneurship competition. The foundation has pledged an additional $900,000 to continue its sponsorship through 2026.
Since becoming Salisbury University’s 10th President in July 2022, Dr. Carolyn Ringer Lepre has worked to advance the institution as it nears its landmark 100th anniversary in 2025. During her investiture ceremony on May 5, she spoke about SU’s past, its present and a future that is just beginning.
A nearly $2.5 million grant from the Maryland State Department of Education will allow child care workers and instructional assistants earn their bachelor's degrees and teaching certifications at Salisbury University as part of a statewide education enhancement effort.
An academic leader with nearly three decades of classroom and administrative success will be Salisbury University’s next provost and senior vice president of academic affairs when Dr. Laurie Couch steps into the position on June 30.
Salisbury University's new Recon 180 simulator is expected to provide enhanced training and collaboration opportunities for the SU Police Department and allied law enforcement agencies. Its goal: Help officers make the campus and surrounding areas as safe as possible.
Nine recent Salisbury University alumni received the opportunity of a lifetime when they were selected to study abroad as 2022-23 Fulbright Students. They also helped SU set a new benchmark as the nation’s No. 1 producer of Fulbright Students in the Master’s Carnegie Classification for 2022-23.
Increasing enrollment, enhancing national rankings, expanding diversity and inclusion leadership, and exploring the creation of new academic pathways are some of the key initiatives Salisbury University President Carolyn Ringer Lepre announced during her inaugural State of the University address.
U.S. News & World Report again has ranked two of Salisbury University’s online graduate programs among the nation’s best. For the sixth year, the publication rated SU’s online M.B.A. Program one of the top in the U.S. SU’s online M.S. in Nursing Program also was ranked among the country’s best.
Tom Draper helped shaped the lives of virtually every resident on the Delmarva Peninsula as the owner of WBOC-TV and other broadcast stations until his sudden death in 2017. Now his legacy will continue to shape the lives of Salisbury University students through the new Thomas H. Draper Scholarship.
For nearly two decades, Dr. Peter and Judy Jackson have been generous supporters of Salisbury University's music programs. Following a recent gift that increased their endowment to the University to $1.3 million, SU repaid their kindness by naming its Music Program in their honor.
Study after study has shown that many of today’s first-year college students are woefully unprepared for university-level classes due to what many are calling the “COVID-19 gap.” At Salisbury University, support systems already in place have helped mitigate some of those negative impacts.
Salisbury University students love the Guerrieri Academic Commons, but for those with children, finding time to study there can be a challenge. SU Libraries is making that a little easier with Study Buddy Playtime Packs to occupy younger study partners while their parents focus on academics.
Elder financial and high-tech fraud costs seniors over $3 billion each year. Salisbury University hopes a $2.6 million federal grant to expand its law enforcement partnership will curb that number while helping students enter the forensic accounting profession and saving costs.
Following three years of the public phase of friend-raising and fundraising, Salisbury University and the SU Foundation, Inc., have surpassed the ambitious $75 million goal for “We Are SU: The Campaign for Salisbury University,” the largest such initiative in campus history.
Ten years after his passing on May 17, 2012, Salisbury University honored the legacy of alumnus and community leader Donnie Williams by announcing the renaming of its varsity baseball complex in his memory.
When it comes to return on investment for graduates, Salisbury University is among the top 15% in the U.S., according to a new database released by Georgetown University. Out of 4,500 institutions, the center ranked SU No. 655 for return on investment for students 40 years after graduation.
Salisbury University has been named among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Students by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the fifth year, and one of the leading producers of Fulbright Scholars. SU is one of only five institutions to make both lists.
The legacy of late NASA engineer George E. Miles will live on through students on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, thanks to gifts from his estate to benefit scholarships at Salisbury University, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Wor-Wic Community College.
Salisbury University President Charles Wight has been named among Maryland’s leading higher education influencers. Wight joins 29 other college, university and University System of Maryland administrators, faculty and advocates in the Daily Record’s inaugural “Power 30 Higher Education” compilation.
What comes to mind when students, faculty, staff, families, alumni, supporters and others think about Salisbury University? This week, the nearly-century-old institution answered that question with the launch of its new brand initiative: “Make Tomorrow Yours.”
Salisbury University President Charles Wight has announced that he will retire from his position at the end of the current academic and fiscal year on Thursday, June 30. He will continue at SU as part-time faculty in the Chemistry Department.
When Salisbury University students returned to campus after Thanksgiving, they were the only students in the University System of Maryland — and part of a dwindling number nationwide — allowed to do so. The milestone was made possible, in part, due to SU's aggressive approach to battling the virus.
For Bob Clarke and Glenda Chatham, Salisbury University was a special place when they met on campus in 1968. The couple hopes to make the institution even more special for students today, announcing a $1.5 million endowment for the SU Honors College, which now bears their name.
In 2006, Salisbury University became the first campus in the University System of Maryland with a test-optional admissions policy for students with cumulative high school grade point averages of 3.5 or higher. Now, SU is expanding the policy to all current high school students applying to enroll in 2021 to help ease some of the burden caused by COVID-19.
From $10 million in refunds processed in one week, to residence hall move-outs scheduled to emphasize social distancing, to definitive Commencement plans, to a Student Emergency Fund and more, Salisbury University is leading the University System of Maryland in student services during COVID-19.
Have a million-dollar idea? Want to pitch it to Shark Tank? 47ABC and Salisbury University’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business recently announced the return of the Shark Tank casting call to Salisbury, MD. The event will take place Saturday, April 18.
Salisbury University has long touted civic engagement as a pillar of education. Recently, SU received the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, recognizing the University’s commitment to community-engaged learning. Salisbury is one of only 359 campuses nationwide to hold this distinction.
Salisbury University has been named among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Students by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the third consecutive year. Top-producing campuses were highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Salisbury University has received a five-year, $2.1 million College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) award from the Department of Education. The funding will assist first-year, full-time students who are engaged, or whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal farm work.
Salisbury University's new $75 million "We Are SU" fundraising campaign is the largest in campus history. The initiative focuses on student scholarships, and faculty and academic enhancements.
Salisbury University, the Greater Salisbury Committee and the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce bring U.S. presidential hopefuls to the Eastern Shore through a new series, “Visits with the U.S. Presidential Candidates.” The first guest is former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld on Tuesday, June 4.
Salisbury University has signed the first agreements with prospective industrial hemp growers under a new Maryland Department of Agriculture pilot program to legalize the crop with a university research component.
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