FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Press Release  #08-224

SMCM Board of Trustees Meeting Scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6

(St. Mary’s City, MD) Nov. 25, 2008 -- The next quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held on Saturday, Dec. 6 at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland.  The General Session is open to the public and will begin at 11 a.m. in the Jarrod Aldom ’97 Lounge on the first floor of the Campus Center.  Contact Marc Apter at 240-895-4381 for more information.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, and Kiplinger’s. Founded in 1840 as Maryland’s “monument school” commemorating the state’s first capital, SMCM is the state’s only public honors college, offering “an Ivy-level College with a public-school price tag” (Newsweek).

Some 2,000 students attend the college, which has the highest graduation rate for all Maryland public colleges and universities, and an SAT average for student admissions of 1252. The school’s waterfront campus along the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland is home to the 2007 National Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s, Sloop and Team champions.