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Tuition & Financial Aid for AY 2022-23

We believe that finances should not be a barrier to becoming a teacher or to accessing high quality professional development.

Relay is committed to offering our programs at a price point that is reasonable and sustainable for Relay students as well as our partner schools and school systems. We work closely with federal, state, and philanthropic sources to provide as much financial aid as possible, tailored to each student’s needs and goals. This page offers an overview of the cost of attending Relay as well as the resources available to support educators. We invite you to contact us with any questions.

This page is applicable to students who entered Relay programs in 2022-23 in all regions .

Tuition for Relay Graduate and Certificate Programs

Tuition varies by program and location. Students usually pay less than the full tuition price due to financial aid. 

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) (Residency and Non)

• $17,500 per year→ $35,000 total
• 2 year program

Alternative Teaching Licensing Program

• $17,500 per year
• 1 year program

Advanced Certificate in Special Education

Connecticut.

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)- Teacher Residency

• $12,000 per year→ $24,000 total

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)

• $11,500→$23,000 total

Connecticut Post-Baccalaureate Certification Program - Teacher Residency

• $15,750 to $24,000 total

Connecticut Post-Baccalaureate Certification Program

• $12,250- $23,000
• 18 month program

Alternative Route to Certification

• $12,000 per year

Transition to Teaching Alternative Licensure Program

• Elementary Education: $23,300 for 4 terms
• Secondary Education: $17,500 fo 3 terms

‍ New Jersey

‍ pennsylvania.

Note that Relay does not operate out of Pennsylvania; however, we are authorized to enroll PA teachers in programs operated out of our Camden New Jersey location.

Pennsylvania Intern Teacher Certification Program

‍ Tennessee

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) - Teacher Residency

Tennessee Job Embedded Licensure Program

• $11,500 per year
• 1 year (3 or 4 terms) program
• $11,500→ $23,000 total

Texas Alternative Certification

‍ Washington, DC

‍ financial aid for graduate and certification programs.

Relay works closely with our students, school and district partners, federal programs, and local supporters to ensure that there are resources available to develop the next generation of great teachers. 

Each student’s financial aid picture will look different. Students will receive support in applying for aid and using it for educational costs in an effective way. ‍

Master of Arts in Teaching

Relay students may be eligible for Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans , TEACH grants , and the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award or the Relay Residency Scholarship (for those not eligible for AmeriCorps).  By participating in AmeriCorps, students have the opportunity to earn  $6,495 in academic year 2022-23, disbursed as an education award. Awards are earned upon successful completion of each year of service, and may be used for any eligible educational expense. We support students in filling out the FAFSA and applying for AmeriCorps.

Many schools and school systems choose to subsidize the cost of teacher training for their staff, and we work with local donors to support cohorts of teachers as well.

Alternative Certification

Relay students may be eligible for the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award . By participating in AmeriCorps, students have the opportunity to earn $6,495 in the 2022-23 academic year, disbursed as an education award. Awards are earned upon successful completion of a year of service, and may be used for any eligible educational expense. We support students in applying for AmeriCorps. Teaching residents in Connecticut pursuing only certification (non-degree) may be eligible for the Relay Residency Scholarship if not eligible for AmeriCorps.

We often work with schools, school districts, and local donors to lower tuition costs for students.

Relay students may be eligible for Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans . The cost of this program may also be lowered by school, system, and philanthropic subsidies.

Contact Us to Learn More

If you are a school or school system administrator who wants to learn more about partnering with Relay, connect with your state-based Relay Executive Director .

If you are a prospective Relay student who wants to learn more about costs and financial aid for you, fill out the interest form to speak to the Prospective Students team.

If you are a current Relay student with questions about your tuition or financial aid, contact Student Financial Services.

Professional Education Costs

Relay is committed to offering high-impact, just-in-time continuing professional development for teachers and leaders. We work closely with our school and district partners to make such opportunities reasonable and sustainable for your budgets.

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• White 27.9%
• African American 27.7%
• Unknown 17.2%
• Hispanic 16.8%
• International (Non-Citizen) 3.1%
• Multiracial 2.6%
• Native American 0.2%
• Pacific Islander 0.1%

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• Intellectual 22%
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• Supportive/helped me grow 67%

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Noble Schools: Relay Residency Program

Relay residency program.

The Teaching Residency is a two-year program where educators have the opportunity to participate in a year-long apprenticeship under the guidance and direction of a mentor teacher before transitioning into a lead teaching position in the second year of the program. This program is designed for individuals who want to enter the teaching profession, and are looking for the support, training, and feedback required in becoming a highly effective teacher. Our residents join a selective cohort of diverse and talented future teachers committed to educational justice.

Noble provides Tuition assistance for both years enrolled in Relay Graduate School of Education.

Development

Build your teaching skills, get a dedicated mentor, and earn your masters in 2 years while getting paid.

License Options

Special Education (most undergraduate majors qualify), Secondary Math, Biology, & Chemistry

What’s The Program Like?

Maria Figueroa

Noble Street College Prep “I am really glad for the Relay Teaching Residency and the impact it has had on me as a teacher. I have found so many connections between what I have been learning in our sessions and what I do as a learning specialist.”

Residents at Noble typically fill a teacher’s assistant (TA) or paraprofessional role, and their responsibilities include providing one-on-one support to students, providing direct instruction to small groups of students, co-teaching, and filling in as substitute teachers.

Over the course of the program, you will build your teaching skills with guidance from your Relay professors and a designated mentor at your school. Throughout your first year as a teaching resident, you’ll gradually gain responsibility by leading small groups of students through lessons until you are ready to instruct a whole class.

Am I Eligible?

2.5 Cumulative GPA

No holds on official transcripts

Passing score on ILTS exam

Summer term attendance

Bachelor’s degree or expected Bachelor’s degree by June 2024

What’s The Process Look Like?

• Submit Noble’s Application
• Submit Offical Transcripts to Relay
• Phone Interview

Submit a Relay Graduate School Application

The expectation is that this application is complete by the end of our interview window. Receiving an offer to enroll in Relay confirms your eligibility to earn a teaching license through their program.

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• Final Interview
• Reference Check

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Relay Graduate School of Education Denver

Relay’s mission is to teach teachers and school leaders to develop in all students the academic skills and strength of character needed to succeed in college and life. Our vision is to become the place where a new generation of continuously-improving, mission-driven individuals can fulfill their destiny in the world’s greatest profession.

To achieve our mission, we focus on preparing and developing outstanding teachers and school leaders. We set ambitious goals for our work, and we continually assess our effectiveness supporting our graduate students and their PK-12 students. By closely monitoring our progress in key areas, we move closer toward fulfilling our promises. While there is much to be done, we are deeply committed to getting there.

In the 2019–20 school year, we expect to serve more than 4,000 current and aspiring teachers across 19 campuses and 1,200 school leaders nationwide. In total, our students will be impacting an estimated 400,000 PK-12 students.

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Relay Alternative Certification Program

Program Duration

In-person, Online, Hybrid

Program Format

Pre-Test Required

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Relay Teaching Certification is a one-year alternative certification program that prepares novice teachers, career changers, and others in need of teaching certification to enter the classroom with confidence. You’ll develop the skills needed to help children grow and earn your state teaching credential. This practical program is grounded in the theories and mindsets of successful teachers. Starting in the summer, you’ll the learn the fundamentals of creating a positive classroom culture and receive coaching from faculty who are experienced PK-12 teachers. Throughout the program, you’ll build your skills and receive support preparing for certification exams. You’ll complete the program prepared to pass licensure exams and continue your professional development as a teacher. Our curriculum focuses entirely on the educational theories and practices that improve student learning in the classroom. The Teaching Certification curriculum centers around four elements of instruction: building subject knowledge, cultivating a fun and productive learning environment, developing personal connections with students and families, and creating high-quality lessons. In this hybrid online and in-person program, you’ll learn the basics of how to build relationships with students, families and colleagues; you’ll apply proven strategies for establishing a positive and productive classroom culture; you’ll learn teaching strategies specific to the grade levels and subject areas, and you’ll develop skills in lesson planning and assessment. You will also develop foundational knowledge and skills in data-driven instruction to measure and track student performance and character growth.

Upcoming Deadlines

Program Start

May 22, 2024

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Ways to Lower Your Costs

Students at Relay Graduate School of Education Denver have reduced the cost of their program using these methods. Check with Relay Graduate School of Education Denver to see if you can, too!

Grants, Stipends, Scholarships

Relay provides an Urban Teacher Scholarship to all graduate students, as well as possible enrollment in the AmeriCorps program.

Licensure Areas

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Our curriculum focuses entirely on the educational theories and practices that improve student learning in the classroom: building subject knowledge, cultivating a fun and productive learning environment, developing personal connections with students and families, and creating high-quality lessons.

Summer 1 Courses: Introduction to Classroom Management Setting the Tone Teacher Mindsets and Professionalism Introduction to Lesson Planning Identity and Bias

Fall 1 Courses: Classroom Management Getting to Know Students, Families, and Schools The Together Teacher Introducing New Material Engaging Everybody Content-Based Instruction 

Spring 1 Courses: Checking for Understanding Student Practice Using Data to Drive Instruction Designing Assessments Teaching Exceptional Learners Teaching English Language Learners Educational Autobiography Content-Based Instruction 

Summer 2 Courses: Unit Planning Building Culturally Responsive Curriculum Introduction to Character Strengths Teaching English Language Learners Community Asset Mapping The First Days of School Content-Based Instruction

Program Hallmarks

Hands-on experience.

The Relay Alternative Certification Program provides a balance of learning while working as a lead teacher. Relay's coursework features video exemplars, faculty who are experts in their content area, and rigorous content that participants can use in their classroom the next day. Faculty provide candidates with frequent observation and feedback, which candidates can use immediately.

Preparation for Diverse Populations

Two-thirds of aspiring teachers enrolled in the Relay Graduate School of Education identify as persons of color, making it one of the largest and most diverse educator residency preparation programs in the country. Relay’s commitment and success in recruiting, preparing and supporting diverse teachers has been sustained annually even as the institution has increased enrollment each year.

Over the course of the two-year one-year program, you will learn how to understand and intentionally respond to differences among the learners in your classroom. You will also develop skills to identify and implement accommodations that align with individual students’ needs. In particular, you will learn how to use Universal Design for Learning to accommodate learner variability during whole-group instruction.

Mentoring & Coaching

Relay places students in schools with a resident advisor who is there to provide a window into teaching and into the curriculum of our partner school. In this role, the resident advisor fulfills several responsibilities to assist your development, including modeling and co-teaching, curriculum and lesson-planning, and communication with Relay.

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Relay Graduate School of Education Loans, Tuition, Costs & More

This is the complete guide to Relay Graduate School of Education tuition, costs and student loans. If you’re considering Relay Graduate School of Education, you’re likely focussed on that huge, glaring sticker price: $N/A.

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That expensive sticker price can be extremely misleading and does not usually represent the true cost of Relay Graduate School of Education. The reality is that a huge percentage of students who attend Relay Graduate School of Education do not pay that number.

What you are most likely concerned with is what you and your family will pay for Relay Graduate School of Education, which is dependent on a range of factors from family income to state residency.

Before we get started, if you have any doubts about your ability to afford Relay Graduate School of Education and are interested in student loans to support your education, the below vendors specifically lend to Relay Graduate School of Education students - click any of them to learn more about their rates and requirements.

Now, let’s break down that scary sticker price first.

How much is Relay Graduate School of Education tuition?

The average annual cost for students at Relay Graduate School of Education is $N/A. The dictionary definition of average annual cost covers expenses like tuition, books and fees, and other miscellaneous items. That’s an important distinction from the total cost of attending Relay Graduate School of Education.

Essentially, tuition is only what you pay to attend classes at Relay Graduate School of Education. The annual charge of $N/A often excludes dozens of other expenses. Therefore, the true cost of Relay Graduate School of Education is much higher than either of these prices (more on this later).

At the same time, however, tuition does not take into account factors that can help a student or family afford college, such as scholarships, student loans and grants.

Therefore, although an important benchmark, the $N/A for Relay Graduate School of Education is likely not a good indicator of what you can expect to pay if you attend the school.

What is the total cost of Relay Graduate School of Education?

If you’re already thinking of this question, you’re one step ahead of us! And you’re on the right track… .The total cost of attending Relay Graduate School of Education is $N/A and is much more indicative of how much you will pay over the course of one year to attend the school - with one BIG caveat: total cost excludes financial supports that help reduce the cost of attending school, like scholarships at Relay Graduate School of Education .

Still, if you do not plan on receiving financial aid, student loans and the like then the Relay Graduate School of Education cost of attendance is the best indicator to consider.

What does the total cost of Relay Graduate School of Education include?

The total cost of Relay Graduate School of Education includes tuition and other common, material expenses, like textbooks and supplies, room and board, and meal costs, minus the average amount of financial aid and scholarships.

Importantly, this does not reflect the price you will likely pay based on your income bracket.

What is the price of room and board at Relay Graduate School of Education?

Relay Graduate School of Education doesn’t report the cost of rooming and dorms. However, we know that average room and board costs from private universities around the country is estimated to be about $10,800. Although there is variability in this price, mostly determined by school location, Relay Graduate School of Education dorm costs are likely similar give or take 10%.

Relay Graduate School of Education doesn’t report meal/boarding charges.

Relay Graduate School of Education does not fully report room and boarding charges.

How can I afford Relay Graduate School of Education?

You should use a variety of financial tools to offset the cost of Relay Graduate School of Education.

It’s easy to lose track of all the assets at your disposal, but the most common can be categorized into grants, loans, and scholarships.

At Relay Graduate School of Education, 0.0% of students receive a pell grant. Furthermore, 0.0353% of students borrow federal student loans to help pay for the school.

If you will use student loans to help pay for Relay Graduate School of Education, these providers below all work with Relay Graduate School of Education students.

How much will I pay for Relay Graduate School of Education?

This is the million dollar question - literally! Relay Graduate School of Education students pay a variety of prices to attend the institution, as you already know. A very easy way to determine an average price you can expect to pay is by using your average family income and comparing it to the table below.

For additional insight, try using the Relay Graduate School of Education net price calculator.

How much debt will I graduate with from Relay Graduate School of Education?

Beyond the years you plan on spending at Relay Graduate School of Education, the financial repercussions of Relay Graduate School of Education tuition will stay with you for awhile, especially if you take out loans to finance the education.

The median debt for students who have completed a degree at Relay Graduate School of Education is $N/A. We can break down this number further by household income and student type (see where you might fit in):

Is Relay Graduate School of Education worth the cost?

Going to college is an investment, and like all investments, you should look at the ROI of attending Relay Graduate School of Education.

Luckily, we can provide some insightful data to help determine whether or not Relay Graduate School of Education is worth the cost by examining what past graduates are earning now.

The average salary of students who were working six years after graduating from Relay Graduate School of Education is $N/A (the median is $N/A).

After 8 years, the average salary for Relay Graduate School of Education graduates is $N/A.

10 years out, the average salary for Relay Graduate School of Education graduates is $N/A.

I think it’s particularly interesting to look at the salary 10 years after graduation, and it’s probably more indicative of whether Relay Graduate School of Education is worth the cost. The real upside of a college degree is that it puts you on a path where your future salary can increase substantially, and it may be hard to achieve that upside without a college degree.

For example, after graduating from Relay Graduate School of Education you may get a job where the salary is not too much more than you’d make without a college degree, and you may have taken out a lot of loans to get there!

However, if you stay in that position for 5 or 10 years, you will likely begin doubling and tripling what you’re making.

The future earnings potential is going to be much higher if you go to Relay Graduate School of Education compared to not attending college at all. Therefore, it’s about maximizing that opportunity and reducing the debt needed to get there.

How do Relay Graduate School of Education graduates fare compared to similar schools?

This is an important question because if you’re considering Relay Graduate School of Education, you likely have other options on the table.

Often times, students enroll in the cheapest university available to them. But, as we know from above, this isn’t the whole story.

For example, you would pay 5% more for a college if you knew the average salary would also be 10% higher, wouldn’t you?

There’s a lot of reasons why the average salary for Relay Graduate School of Education students would differ from its peer schools. Perhaps the most popular areas of study align with higher or lower paying careers, or the school has a massive and supportive alumni network.

Here are just a few related schools to Relay Graduate School of Education that may be of interest. Click on any one to break down their costs and performance outcomes further.

How much does Relay Graduate School of Education cost per semester?

Assuming there are two semesters at Relay Graduate School of Education, you will pay $N/A per semester.

How much does Relay Graduate School of Education cost per year?

This is effectively the total annual cost of Relay Graduate School of Education, which is $N/A. However, you can also add room and board, textbooks, and other fees listed above onto that number to better determine how you will really spend in one year of attendance.

Is it possible to attend Relay Graduate School of Education for free?

In theory, yes it is possible to attend Relay Graduate School of Education for free. If you are a stellar student, you may get a scholarship to cover the entire cost of the education.

Similarly, if you are a student athlete, you may receive a full scholarship to be on a sports team.

Unless you are receiving a “full ride” (e.g. full scholarship) to attend Relay Graduate School of Education, though, it won’t be free. If you take out loans to finance the school, you may pay very little in the near term but all of that money must still be paid off in the long term.

If you're trying to get in to Relay Graduate School of Education read about the requirements here

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Relay Graduate School of Education

At Relay, we are on a mission to provide all PK-12 students with high-quality education and choice-filled lives. To achieve this mission, we focus on preparing and supporting outstanding teachers and school leaders. Our programs emphasize the specific teaching and instructional leadership skills that have the greatest impact on student learning and development.

Relay is an accredited national nonprofit institution of higher education serving 2,000 teachers and 400 school leaders across the U.S. We offer degree programs, professional development and unique learning experiences for teachers, principals, college students and members of the public.

Relay is proud to collaborate with many outstanding peer institutions of higher education, educational nonprofits, public school districts and public charter networks across the United States. Our partners set a high bar for excellence and inform our approach to developing teachers and school leaders.  

Institution Links

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Relay is a hands-on program that aligns perfectly to teaching. I love attending Relay classes because I feel that they help me improve the way I teach, and my students benefit from it as a result.

At A Glance

113,457 alumni. 19,000 students 1 . 36 schools. 4 countries. One Touro.

Touro University is America’s largest private institution of higher and professional education under Jewish auspices. Every year, thousands of students from all countries and walks of life turn to us to pursue degrees in medicine, education, Jewish Studies, technology—and everything in between.

Touro At A Glance PDF

Touro is America’s largest not-for-profit independent institution of higher and professional education under Jewish auspices. Touro’s schools provide diverse, innovative and engaging course offerings, from medicine and pharmacy to law; business to education; and speech-language pathology to Jewish studies, among other areas and disciplines. We draw our strength not just in our numbers, but from our continued commitment to our values, belief in social justice , and respect for applied knowledge and discovery. From our dedicated faculty to our affordability to our diverse range of students and program offerings, you don't need to look far to see what sets Touro apart.

New York remains the epicenter of the Touro network, with programs thriving in California, Illinois, and Nevada, as well as overseas in Jerusalem, Berlin, and Moscow .

Chartered: 1970 Opened: 1971

• Chairman of the Board: Zvi Ryzman
• Chancellor: Rabbi Doniel Lander
• President: Alan Kadish, M.D.
• Executive Vice President, University Ombudsman: Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka
• Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer: Melvin Ness, CPA
• General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer: Michael Newman, J.D.
• Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs: Patricia Salkin, J.D., Ph.D.
• Senior Vice President, Operations: Jeffrey Rosengarten, B.A.
• Senior Vice President, Research Affairs: Salomon Amar, D.D.S., Ph.D.
• Founding President: Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, OBM

Touro was established to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish heritage, to enhance Jewish continuity, as well as to serve the general community in keeping with the historic Judaic commitment to intellectual inquiry and social justice.

Enrollment 1

Approximately 19,000 students, including 6,400 undergraduates, studying at over 35 colleges, mostly in New York but also in California, Illinois, and Nevada, as well as overseas in Jerusalem, Berlin and Moscow. Students are pursuing graduate and professional degrees in such fields as medicine, law, dentistry, business, education, Jewish studies, and other health science areas and disciplines.

• Total Faculty: 2,144
• Full Time: 1,032
• Part Time: 1,112
• Approximately 113,457
• Operating Budget: $572 million
• Scholarships, Grants and Sponsored Research: $69,826,000

Tuition and Administrative Fees

• Undergraduate tuition: $14,630-20,550/year
• Graduate: varies

Demographics

Undergraduate student demographics:

• 11% Black/African-American
• 11% Hispanic/Latino
• Doctoral: Ph.D., Psy.D.
• Professional: DDS, Ed.D, DMG, DNP, DO, DPT, DrPH, J.D., M.D., PharmD, OTD
• Master’s: LL.M, M.A., MAEd, MBA, MEd, MPH, MPS, M.S., MSMHS, MSOT, MSN, MPAS, MSW
• Bachelor’s: B.A., BASW, B.S., BSN
• Associate: A.A., A.A.S., A.O.S., A.S.
• Certificates: Various certificate degree programs offered at graduate and undergraduate levels, in such areas as bilingual education, school leadership, and business and cybersecurity.

Office of Academic Affairs

• Patricia E. Salkin, J.D., Ph.D., Provost and Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
• Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., Provost, Biomedical Affairs, Touro University System
• Andrew Priest, EdD, MPT, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Touro University Nevada
• Tami Hendriksz, D.O., Interim Chief Academic Officer, Touro University California
• Chani Tessler, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer, Hebrew Theological College
• Shelia Lewis, Ph.D., Provost, Touro University Worldwide
• Stanley Boylan, Ph.D., Vice President and Dean of Faculties, Division of Undergraduate Education, Touro University

Enhancing the Jewish Heritage

• Lander College for Men  (Dr. Moshe Sokol, Dean; Founded 2000, New York)
• Lander College for Women - The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (Dr. Marian Stoltz-Loike, Dean and Vice President, Online Education; Founded 1974, New York)
• Lander College of Arts & Sciences – Flatbush (Dr. Robert Goldschmidt, Vice President and Executive Dean, and Dr. Henry Abramson, Academic Dean; Men’s Division Founded 1976, New York; Women’s Division Founded 1978, New York)
• Institute for Advanced Talmudic Studies (Rabbi Doniel Lander, Rosh Yeshiva/Dean; Founded 1985, New York) 4
• School for Lifelong Education  (Shoshana Grun, Director; Founded 1989, New York)
• Machon L’Parnasa-Institute for Professional Studies (Esther Braun, Director; Founded 1999, New York)
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The St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees held tuition and mandatory fees flat for the fifth consecutive year at its May 10 meeting, while approving a modest increase in room & board rates for the 2024-25 school year.

“Despite the uncertainty in fall enrollments nationwide caused by the flawed rollout of the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the Department of Education, overall the College is in a very good position financially,” said St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) President Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD.

“Fortunately, the long-term tuition strategy we put in place several years ago allows us to continue to hold the line on tuition increases.”

All 11 of the College’s peer institutions raised tuition and mandatory fees last year by an average of 3.3%. In absolute terms, SMCM charges lower tuition than it did in the 2013-2014 academic year—a difference magnified significantly by inflation over that period of more than 30%. The board-approved increase of 3.9% for room and board reflects the increased costs of goods and services as well as an increase in the Maryland minimum wage.

The meeting was led for the final time by outgoing Chair Susan L. Dyer, who completed the maximum three-year term. A commercial real estate developer and managing partner in a successful upscale restaurant in Leonardtown, Maryland, Dyer has more than 30 years of experience as a recognized leader and expert in information technology strategy, design, development and delivery of large-scale business and scientific systems.

“It has been my absolute pleasure to serve as chair of this outstanding Board of Trustees and our equally amazing faculty and exceptional staff,” said Dyer. “Under the tremendous vision and leadership of President Jordan, we have consistently focused on determining the best outcomes for our students, which truly reflects the heart of this institution.”

Under Dyer’s leadership, the Board of Trustees oversaw significant positive changes, including maintaining the aforementioned tuition freeze and long-range tuition strategy, the approval of new academic majors, the approval of the three-year  Rising Tide  strategic plan and an upgrade of the College’s credit rating. 

Dyer will be replaced as chair by John Bell, a 1995 graduate of SMCM and managing director for Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Bank. Bell is the first alumnus to chair the Board of Trustees. Other board officers—Vice Chair Paula Collins, Treasurer John C. Wobensmith SMCM ’93 and Secretary Nicolas Abrams SMCM ’99—will continue in their roles.

In other news, the Board was informed by President Jordan of her  decision to retire in June of 2025 , and of the transition of the College’s Taking the LEAD fundraising campaign to a How High Can We Fly phase for its final year after  eclipsing its initial goal of $20 million  a year ahead of schedule.

The Board also approved the 2024-25 meeting calendar, the awarding of degrees to the Class of 2024, a new attendance policy, diversity report, FY26-FY30 state capital budget proposal and its authority and responsibility matrix. In addition, the board received updates on the Middle States Reaffirmation of Accreditation self-study.

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Critter Camp Summer Day Camp is making summers fun for pre-K to 5th grade.

May 14, 2024

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Become a true Critter Camper! Join us from 8:00am to 4:00pm daily for a summer of exploration, creativity, and connection with nature. The cost is $250/child for the week—get ready to dive into the fun and discover the magic of wetlands with Critter Camp!

At Critter Camp, kids will explore the fascinating world of pond life, wetland habitats, and the amazing critters that call these places home. From frogs and turtles to dragonflies and birds, every day will be filled with exciting discoveries and hands-on activities.

Our campers will embark on nature expeditions to observe pond ecosystems, identify native plants, and learn about the unique creatures that thrive in wetland environments. Guided by experienced counselors, they’ll uncover the secrets of glass lizards, indigo snakes, and other rare species that inhabit our natural landscapes.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! Critter Camp is all about engaging with nature through creative games and educational adventures. Campers will enjoy activities like Nature Bingo, Pond Water Exploration with microscopes, and Pond Life Scavenger Hunts to discover hidden treasures around our wetlands.

Imagine crafting bird feeders, building fairy houses, and painting rocks with colorful designs—all while surrounded by the sights and sounds of the great outdoors. With Nature Olympics, Nature Journals, and even a Nature Relay Race featuring plant identification and animal tracking challenges, every day promises new excitement and learning opportunities.

As part of our commitment to conservation, campers will also participate in activities like Trash Clean-Up and planting native species to enhance our wetland ecosystem. Through hands-on projects and engaging discussions, they’ll gain a deeper appreciation for nature and learn how to protect our environment.

8:00am – 4:00pm Daily

Yours in conservation,

Zach VanOtteren

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Message from Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, May 10, 2024:

Dear Berkeley Law Community,

It is with a very heavy heart that I am writing to inform you that our beloved colleague and former dean Chris Edley died on Friday morning.

Chris had an amazing life and career, including being a transformative dean for Berkeley Law.

Chris graduated from Swarthmore College and the Harvard School of Public Policy and Harvard Law School. He then had an exemplary career in academia and in public service.

Chris spent 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School, including co-founding the Harvard Civil Rights Project, before coming to Berkeley Law as dean in 2004. He served as dean until 2013. As dean, he made an enormous positive difference in every aspect of the law school, from the hiring of many terrific faculty, to his initiative to build the south addition (with the library and classrooms and Café Zeb), to dramatically increasing support for public interest grants for students, to the creation of many centers.

Chris served in White House policy and budget positions under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Chris also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns: policy director for Michael Dukakis (1988); and senior policy adviser for Al Gore (2000), Howard Dean (2004), Barack Obama (2008), and Hillary Clinton (2016). In 1993, he was a senior economic adviser in the Clinton Presidential Transition, responsible for housing and regulation of financial institutions. In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition, with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. In 1993, he was a senior economic adviser in the Clinton Presidential Transition, responsible for housing and regulation of financial institutions. In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama presidential transition, with general responsibility for healthcare, education, and immigration. From 2011-2013, he co-chaired the congressionally chartered National Commission on Education Equity and Excellence.

Chris was a fellow or member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; the National Academy of Public Administration; the Council on Foreign Relations; the American Law Institute; the Advisory Board of the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution; and the board of Inequality Media. He is a National Associate of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies of Science, for which he chaired a committee to evaluate NAEP performance standards, and a committee to design a national system of education equity indicators.

Since completing his deanship, he has served the Law School and the campus in countless ways, including recently serving for two years as the Interim Dean of the School of Education. Chris and Maria Echaveste directed the Opportunity Institute.

Chris and I were law school classmates. He has been a dear friend and has provided me invaluable wisdom and support in my years as a dean. I know I speak for all of us in saying how terribly much we will miss him.

I will keep you posted of plans for memorials.

To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots

Russian university leaders are imbuing the country’s education system with patriotism to favor Putin, quashing Western influences and dissent.

Two weeks before the start of his 25th year as Russia’s supreme political leader, Vladimir Putin made a sweeping proclamation: “Wars are won by teachers.”

The remark, which Putin repeated twice during his year-end news conference in December, shed light on a campaign he is waging that has received little attention outside wartime Russia: to imbue the country’s education system with patriotism, purge universities of Western influences, and quash any dissent among professors and students on campuses that are often hotbeds of political activism.

At St. Petersburg State University, this meant dismantling a prestigious humanities program called the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more than a decade, until May 2022, the faculty — or college — was led by Alexei Kudrin, a liberal economist and former finance minister who had been a close associate of Putin’s since the early 1990s, when they were deputy mayors together in St. Petersburg.

“We had many classes on U.S. history, American political life, democracy and political thought, as well as courses on Russian history and political science, history of U.S.-Russian relations, and even a course titled ‘The ABCs of War: Causes, Effects, Consequences,’” said a student at the faculty, also known as Smolny College. “They are all gone now,” the student said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

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In a radical reshaping of Russia’s education system, curriculums are being redrawn to stress patriotism and textbooks rewritten to belittle Ukraine, glorify Russia and whitewash the totalitarian Soviet past. These changes — the most sweeping to schooling in Russia since the 1930s — are a core part of Putin’s effort to harness the war in Ukraine to remaster his country as a regressive, militarized state.

Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, leaders of Russian universities, which are overwhelmingly funded by the state, have zealously adopted the Kremlin’s intolerance of any dissent or self-organization, according to an extensive examination by The Washington Post of events on campuses across Russia, including interviews with students and professors both still in the country and in exile.

Professors who spoke out against the war, or allowed safe spaces for students to question it, have been fired. Students who picketed or posted on social media for peace were expelled.

Meanwhile, those who volunteer to fight in Ukraine have been celebrated in line with Putin’s promises that war heroes and their descendants will become the new Russian elite, with enhanced social benefits, including special preference for children seeking to enter top academic programs. Normally, such programs require near-perfect grades and high scores on competitive exams — uniform standards that applicants from all societal backgrounds have relied on for decades.

And the most fundamental precept of academic life — the freedom to think independently, to challenge conventional assumptions and pursue new, bold ideas — has been eroded by edicts that classrooms become echo chambers of the authoritarian nativism and historical distortions that Putin uses to justify his war and his will.

As a result, a system of higher learning that once was a beacon for students across the developing world is now shutting itself off from peer academies in the West, severing one of the few ties that had survived years of political turbulence. Freedom of thought is being trampled, if not eradicated. Eminent scholars have fled for positions abroad, while others said in interviews that they are planning to do so.

At the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, officials last July created the Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School, which is now being led by Alexander Dugin, a fervent pro-Putin and Orthodox Christian ideologue who was tasked with “revising domestic scientific and educational paradigms and bringing them into line with our traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”

“There has been a catastrophic degradation in Western humanitarian history,” Dugin said at a January seminar on transforming Russian humanities education. “This is evidenced by gender problems, postmodernism and ultraliberalism. We can study the West, but not as the ultimate universal truth. We need to focus on our own Russian development model.”

How we reported ‘Russia, Remastered’

Last month, students pushed an online petition to protest the naming of the school after Ilyin, a philosopher who defended Hitler and Mussolini in World War II and advocated for the return of czarist autocracy in Russia. In a statement to Tass, the state-controlled news service, the university denounced the petition as “part of the information war of the West and its supporters against Russia” and asserted, without providing evidence, that the group behind it had no connection to students at the school.

Programs specializing in the liberal arts and sciences are primary targets because they are viewed as breeding grounds for dissent. Major universities have cut the hours spent studying Western governments, human rights and international law, and even the English language.

“We were destroyed,” said Denis Skopin, a philosophy professor at Smolny College who was fired for criticizing the war. “Because the last thing people who run universities need are unreliable actors who do the ‘wrong’ thing, think in a different way, and teach their students to do the same.”

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The demise of Smolny College

St. Petersburg State University, commonly known as SPbU, has long been one of Russia’s premier academies of higher learning. It is the alma mater of both Putin, who graduated with a degree in law in 1975, and former president Dmitry Medvedev, who received his law degree 12 years later and now routinely threatens nuclear strikes on the West as deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council.

In many ways, the university has become the leader in reprisals against students and staff not loyal to the Kremlin, with one newspaper dubbing it the “repressions champion” of Russian education. Its halls have become a microcosm of modern Russia in which conservatives in power are pushing out the few remaining Western-oriented liberals.

Like other aspects of Putin’s remastering of Russia — such as patriotic mandates in the arts and the redrawing of the role of women to focus on childbearing — the shift in education started well before the invasion of Ukraine. In 2021, Russia ended a more than 20-year-old exchange program between Smolny College and Bard College in New York state by designating the private American liberal arts school an “undesirable” organization.

Jonathan Becker, Bard’s vice president for academic affairs and a professor of political studies, said the demise of Smolny was emblematic of a wider shift in Russia as well as a new intolerance of the West.

“A huge number of faculty have been let go, several departments closed, core liberal arts programs which focus on critical thinking have been eliminated,” Becker said. “All of that has happened, and it’s not just happened at Smolny — it has happened elsewhere. But we were doubly problematic because we both represent critical thinking and partnership with the West. And neither of those are acceptable in present-day Russia.”

In October 2022, in a scene captured on video and posted on social media, dozens of students gathered in a courtyard to bid a tearful goodbye to Skopin, Smolny’s cherished philosophy professor who was fired for an “immoral act” — protesting Putin’s announcement of a partial military mobilization to replenish his depleted forces in Ukraine.

The month before, according to court records and interviews, Skopin was arrested at an antiwar rally. He ended up sharing a jail cell with another professor, Artem Kalmykov, a young mathematician who had recently finished his PhD at the University of Zurich.

That fall, the university launched an overhaul that all but shut Smolny College and replaced the curriculum with a thoroughly revamped arts and humanities program.

The dismantling of Smolny marked the resolution of a years-long feud between Kudrin, the liberal-economist dean, and Nikolai Kropachev, the university rector, whom tutors and students described as a volatile character with a passion for building ties in the highest echelons of the government.

It’s hard to describe the insane level of anxiety the students felt at the start of the invasion, and I’d say 99 percent of them were against it.”

Denis Skopin

Former philosophy professor at Smolny College

It’s hard to describe the insane level of anxiety the students felt at the start of the invasion, and I’d say

99 percent of them were against it.”

It’s hard to describe the insane level

of anxiety the students felt at the start

of the invasion, and I’d say 99 percent

of them were against it.”

It’s hard to describe the insane level of anxiety

the students felt at the start of the invasion,

and I’d say 99 percent of them were against it.”

In February, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, sent a heartfelt birthday message to Kropachev, thanking him for his “civic and political activity” and for “comprehensive assistance in replenishing personnel.”

One student described how Kropachev once interrupted a meeting with students and hinted that he needed to take a call from Putin, in what the student viewed as a boast of his direct access to the Russian leader. Both St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University were assigned a special status in 2009, under which their rectors are appointed personally by the president.

Skopin, who earned his PhD in France, and his cellmate, Kalmykov, were perfect examples of the type of academic that Russia aspired to attract from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s — enticed after studying abroad to bring knowledge home amid booming investment in higher education. But by 2022, the system seemed to have no need for them.

Video of the gathering in the courtyard shows students erupting in sustained applause, and one student coming forward to hug Skopin.

“It’s hard to describe the insane level of anxiety the students felt at the start of the invasion, and I’d say 99 percent of them were against it,” Skopin said.

After his dismissal, some students tried to fight the administration’s plan to dismantle the Smolny program.

“At one point we found ourselves in a situation where out of 30 original faculty staff, we had just three tutors left,” said Polina Ulanovskaya, a sociology student and activist who led the student union. “And the quality of education definitely suffered, especially all of the politics-related classes.”

Ulanovskaya said that on the political science track, only two professors have stayed, and many classes were eliminated, including a human rights course. There are now just two courses offered in English, down from 21.

With every new professor, Ulanovskaya said, she felt a need to test the waters. Would the word “gender” trigger them? Could she say something opposition-leaning? What would be a red flag?

Ulanovskaya opted out of writing a thesis on her main research topic — Russian social movements, politicization of workers and historic-preservation activists — out of fear that it would be blacklisted. Instead, she wrote about Uruguay.

“The main problem at the faculty now is that there is no freedom and especially no sense of security,” she said. “I guess there is no such thing anywhere in Russia now ... you can’t trust anyone in any university.”

A few weeks after The Post interviewed Ulanovskaya last fall, she was expelled, formally for failing an exam, but she and Skopin said they believe it was retaliation for her activism.

Another student, Yelizaveta Antonova, was supposed to get her bachelor’s degree in journalism just days after legendary Novaya Gazeta newspaper reporter Yelena Milashina was brutally beaten in Chechnya, the small Muslim-majority republic in southern Russia under the dictatorial rule of Ramzan Kadyrov.

Antonova, who interned at Novaya Gazeta and looked up to Milashina, felt she could not accept her diploma without showing support for her colleague. She and a roommate printed a photo of Milashina, depicting the reporter’s shaved head and bandaged hands, to stage a demonstration at their graduation ceremony — much to the dismay of other classmates, who sought to block the protest.

“They essentially prevented us from going on stage,” Antonova said. “So we did it outside of the law school, and we felt it was extra symbolic because Putin and Medvedev studied in these halls.”

They held up the poster for about half an hour, until another student threatened them by saying riot police were on the way to arrest them. Antonova believes the protest cost her a spot in graduate school, where she hoped to continue her research comparing Russia’s media landscape before and after the invasion.

Eight months after the graduation ceremony, authorities launched a case against Antonova and her roommate for staging an unauthorized demonstration — an administrative offense that is punishable by a fine and puts people on law enforcement’s radar. Antonova left the country to continue her studies abroad.

Ideological divides

The history college at St. Petersburg State has long been a battleground for various ideologies, with cliques ranging from conservatives and Kremlin loyalists to unyielding opposition-minded liberals, according to interviews with students and professors.

The February 2022 invasion of Ukraine caused a deeper split. Some students and professors openly praised Putin’s “special military operation,” as the Kremlin called the war, while others joined rallies against it.

“The war gave them carte blanche,” said Michael Martin, 22, a former star at the college — to which he was automatically admitted after winning two nationwide academic competitions and where he earned straight A’s.

Martin was a leader of the student council, which on the day of the invasion issued an antiwar manifesto quickly drafted in a cafe.

Another history student, Fedor Solomonov, took the opposite view and praised the special military operation on social media. When Solomonov was called up as part of the mobilization, he declined to take a student deferral and went to fight. He died on the front on April 1, 2023.

Soon after Solomonov’s death, screenshots from internal chats where students often debated history and politics were leaked and went viral on pro-war Telegram channels. In some, Martin and other classmates expressed antiwar sentiments, while another showed a message — allegedly written by an assistant professor, Mikhail Belousov — vaguely describing events in Ukraine as “Rashism,” a wordplay combining “Russia” and “fascism.”

In an aggressive online campaign, pro-war activists demanded that Belousov, who denied writing the message, be fired and that the antiwar students, whom they labeled “a pro-Ukrainian organized crime group,” be expelled.

“A cell of anti-Russian students led by a Russophobe associate professor is operating at the history faculty,” read posts on Readovka, a radical outlet with 2.5 million followers. “They are rabid liberals who hate their country.” Belousov was dismissed and seven students, including Martin, were accused of desecrating Solomonov’s memory and expelled.

Belousov has gone underground and could not be reached for comment.

“They essentially tried to make me do the Sieg Heil,” Martin said, recalling the expulsion hearing, where he said the committee repeatedly asked leading questions trying to get him to say the war was justified. The committee also asked him repeatedly about Solomonov.

“I said he was for the war and I was against it — we could argue about that,” Martin said. “I didn’t find anything funny or interesting in this — I’m truly sorry for what happened to him, but at the same time, I don’t think that he did something good or great by going to war.”

Martin said that as the war raged on, the university began “glorifying death” and praising alumni who had joined the military.

This narrative also warped the curriculum.

A few weeks into the invasion, the school introduced a class on modern Ukrainian history, with a course description asserting that Ukrainian statehood is based “on a certain mythology.”

They essentially tried to make me do the Sieg Heil.”

Michael Martin

Former student at St. Petersburg State University

Belousov, the former assistant professor, criticized a course titled “The Great Patriotic War: No Statute of Limitations,” taught by an instructor with a degree in library science. The key message of the course is that the Soviet Union had no role in the start of World War II — a denial of Russia’s joint invasion of Poland with Nazi Germany in 1939.

According to a government document reviewed by The Post, Russia’s Higher Education Ministry plans to introduce this course at other universities to ensure the “civic-patriotic and spiritual-moral education of youth,” specifically future lawyers, teachers and historians, and to “correct false ideas.”

“These are obviously propaganda courses that are aimed at turning historians into court apologists,” Martin said.

Martin was expelled days before he was supposed to defend his thesis. He quickly left the country after warnings that he and his classmates could be charged with discrediting the army, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison. A criminal case was initiated against Belousov on charges of rehabilitating Nazism.

“This is all very reminiscent of the Stalinist 1930s purges,” Martin said. “The limit of tolerated protest now is to sit silently and say nothing. There is despair at the faculty and a feeling that they have crushed everything.”

New Russian elite

To lure more Russian men to fight in Ukraine, the government has promised their families various sweeteners, including cheap mortgages, large life insurance payments and education benefits for their children.

In 2022, Putin approved changes to education laws to grant children of soldiers who fought in Ukraine admissions preferences at Russia’s best universities — schools that normally accept only students with near-perfect exam scores and impressive high school records.

Now, at least 10 percent of all fully funded university spots must be allocated to students eligible for the military preference. Those whose fathers were killed or wounded do not need to pass entry exams.

The new law solidified a previous Putin decree that gave special preferences to soldiers and their children. In the 2023-24 academic year, about 8,500 students were enrolled based on these preferences, government officials said. According to an investigation by the Russian-language outlet Important Stories, nearly 900 students were admitted to 13 top universities through war quotas, with most failing to meet the normal exam score threshold.

In areas of Ukraine captured by Russian forces since February 2022, a different takeover of the education system is underway, with Moscow imposing its curriculum and standards just as it did after invading and illegally annexing Crimea in 2014.

For the 2023-24 academic year, according to the Russian prime minister’s office, more than 5 percent of fully state-financed tuition stipends — roughly 37,000 out of 626,000 — were allocated for students at universities in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson or Zaporizhzhia, the four occupied or partly occupied areas of Ukraine that Putin has claimed to be annexed.

The relatively large allocation of tuition aid in occupied areas shows how financial assistance and education are central to Putin’s effort to seize lands in southeast Ukraine and absorb its population into Russia in violation of international law.

Deans of several leading Russian universities have made highly publicized trips to occupied Ukraine to urge students there to enroll into Russian schools, part of a multipronged effort to bring residents into Moscow’s orbit.

The Moscow-based Higher School of Economics, once considered Russia’s most liberal university, recently established patronage over universities in Luhansk, with Rector Nikita Anisimov often traveling there.

An inward turn

A few weeks after the invasion started, Moscow abandoned the Bologna Process , a pan-European effort to align higher education standards, as Russia’s deans and rectors strove to show they weren’t susceptible to foreign influence.

Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov said Russian universities would undergo significant changes in the next half-decade, overseen by the national program “Priority 2030,” which envisions curriculums that ensure “formation of a patriotic worldview in young people.”

Soon after Russia quit the Bologna Process, Smolny College was targeted for overhaul.

“The decision was an expected but distinct shift from the more liberal model of Russian higher education policy that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union,” said Victoria Pardini, a program associate at the Kennan Institute, a Washington think tank focused on Russia.

Another prestigious school, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, canceled its liberal arts program in 2022 after authorities accused it of “destroying national values.”

In mid-October 2023, the Higher Education Ministry ordered universities to avoid open discussion of “negative political, economic and social trends,” according to a publicly disclosed report by British intelligence. “In the longer term, this will likely further the trend of Russian policymaking taking place in an echo-chamber,” the report concluded.

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Many international exchange programs have been canceled — some because Russian students now have difficulty obtaining visas. Still, a heavy brain drain is underway. “All those who could — they left the country,” Skopin said of his students. “Those who can’t are thrashing around as if they are in a cage.”

Martin is among those who got out — he was recently accepted into a prestigious master’s program abroad and plans to continue his research into 19th-century Australian federalism.

Skopin now teaches in Berlin and is a member of Smolny Beyond Borders, an education program that seeks funding to cover the tuition of students who leave Russia because of their political views. As of late 2023, an estimated 700 students were enrolled.