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Joseph Anderson, chair of the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center board of governors, signs a memorandum of understanding with Southern Maryland Navy Alliance’s Glen Ives, left, and University System of Maryland Chancellor William Kirwan at a USM Board of Regents meeting Friday at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons. The agreement will result in a University of Maryland learning center and possible business incubator in St. Mary’s County.

A merger of the University System of Maryland and the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center is one step closer after leaders signed an agreement this month for a new building at the California campus.

A merger could open up educational and business opportunities for the region, officials said Friday during a signing agreement at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons.

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