MARYLAND BRIEFING

HIGHER EDUCATION

Regents Elect Chairman

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents yesterday elected Clifford M. Kendall to be its next chairman.

He will replace David H. Nevins, who will remain on the board but asked not to be reelected chairman after his term ends this month, citing increasing professional demands.

Kendall, a business leader who served as chairman during a previous term, was recently reappointed to the board by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R)

The regents also voted to launch a School of Public Health at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Students at the downtown Baltimore campus already can earn master's of public health degrees.

The regents' decision begins the process of adding the first new school there in 45 years. Over the next few months, the university will be preparing for accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health.

The ultimate goal, according to University Chancellor William E. Kirwan, is for the College Park campus to launch a school as well.

-- Susan Kinzie

Bowie President Named

Mickey Burnim, a chancellor in the University of North Carolina system, will become the next president of Bowie State University, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Chairman David H. Nevins announced yesterday.

Burnim, currently chancellor of Elizabeth City State University, also has served as provost of North Carolina Central University and was an economics professor there, at the University of North Carolina and at Florida State University.