Latest college-bound students honored Jun 27, 2008
Terreforte spoke of her experience before an audience of 150 high school and college graduates, parents and community leaders at First Generation College Bound's annual graduation celebration at Capitol College on June 18. Begun in 1990 by Fisher, Laurel-based First Generation College Bound helps middle and high school students become the first in their families to attend college. (Laurel Leader, MD)
Capitol College bucks trend, keeps tuition down Apr 11, 2008
Capitol College, a 81-year-old school focused on engineering, business and technology, is drawing accolades from Maryland leaders for not raising tuition for undergraduate programs and actually cutting tuition by almost half for its business and management degree programs, from $18,784 to $9,840 per year. By lowering tuition while nearly every other independent school in Maryland raises them, Capitol College hopes to make a name for itself as a lower-cost option and increase its number of... (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Capitol College hires former NSA official as academic chief Dec 7, 2007
Along with its new logo and new leadership institute, Capitol College now has a new chief academic officer ... Dr. Michael T. Wood, president of Capitol College, cited Maconachy's former job as head of NSA's National Information Assurance Education and Training Program as a primary reason for hiring him ... Information assurance training, which teaches students how to better safeguard computers and other online information, is a specialty at Capitol College. (Laurel Leader, MD)
First Generation graduates another class Jun 29, 2007
Brown's comment was one of the many testimonies to the tenacity of Fisher, the founder of the Laurel-based First Generation College Bound, at the organization's annual graduation celebration, held at Capitol College. Although the night was a celebration of the high school students who will attend college because of the program and the students who have graduated from college because of the program, many took the opportunity to celebrate Fisher and his program. (Laurel Leader, MD)
Capitol College celebrates 80 years with new offering Jun 1, 2007
No candles on a cake for Capitol College's 80th birthday party ... Located on Springfield Road in South Laurel, Capitol College is a private, four-year school dealing primarily in computer science, engineering, information technology and business -- although it does include some liberal arts programs ... For that matter, the institute will not even be exclusively for Capitol College students. (Laurel Leader, MD)
Eddie Robinson to lie in state at Louisiana Capitol Apr 9, 2007
Robinson to lie in state at Louisiana Capitol - College football - MSNBC.com. Robinson to lie in state at Louisiana Capitol. (MSNBC -- Sports)
IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Mar 23, 2007
Daniel Millington (Capitol College), Chase Pritchett (University of Oklahoma), and Yang Liu (Tsinghua University in China), wrote computer code that checks word processing documents that adhere to the ODF to determine whether they are accessible. The students contributed their code to the open source community via. (SmallBusinessComputing)
