The Byrd Stadium Naming Work Group, which Loh said is meant to provide a “thoughtful and balanced assessment of possible options” regarding the stadium’s name, will hold its first meeting on ...

As the mayor of Greenbelt, Colin Byrd is taking on some of the issues that have prompted a push for accountability […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 70°F.

The University of Maryland will strip the name of a former school president who opposed racial integration from its football stadium after a debate at the flagship campus over whether tradition and… ...

UMD Changes Name Of Byrd Stadium To Maryland Stadium December 11, 2015 / 9:45 PM / CBS Baltimore COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WJZ) -- An outstanding university president and a strict segregationist.

To many African-American alumni and students, ‘Byrd Stadium’— the ‘front porch’ of the institution, not the most important part of the educational house, but the most visible one ...

Byrd Stadium at the University of Maryland could have a new, less divisive, name soon. University President Wallace D. Loh recommended Monday that the university system’s board of regents should ...

President Byrd is rightly regarded as "Father and Builder" of UMD over a 43-year career here, retiring in 1954. He dramatically increased enrollment, faculty, funding, and the size of the campus.

The University of Maryland’s Harry C. “Curley” Byrd Stadium will now be known as Maryland Stadium, following a Dec. 11 vote of the university’s Board of Regents. The board voted […] ...