Mt. St. Mary’s University is frequently confused with St. Mary College in St. Mary, Maryland. The former is inland, up by the Pennsylvania boarder, and is a Catholic school. The other is a public college.
Mt. St. Mary’s has been struggling to get their enrollment up and to reduce its washout rate. The school was in the news a year or so ago when they brought in a Cambridge corporate type to be their president. Looks like he started using some corporate techniques on his underlings. He underestimated the push back he would get from the academy.
I went to St. Mary’s College of Maryland in the late sixties and graduated four years later. That place was always being confused with being a Catholic School, even though it was named after the county is was loctaed, St. Mary’s County Maryland. Aside from that, Mount St. Mary’s is in the Catoctin Mountains, and St. Mary’s is on a peninsula surrounded by beaches on the St. Mary’s River a few miles in from the Chesapeake Bay.
The article referred to the College as Mount St. Mary a “private Catholic university in Maryland”. The Mount St. Mary I am familiar with is in Emmittsburg Md.