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Table of Contents Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . Academic Advancement . Student Success . . . . . . . Research and Innovation. Campus Development. . . Financial Advancement. . The Morgan Way. . . . . . Looking Forward. . . . . . .
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David Kwabena Wilson, Ed.D. President Morgan State University Baltimore, Maryland
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uring my time as president of Morgan State University, I have often asked for audiences to indulge me as I told them the CliffsNotes version of the story of my upbringing: how I was raised by my parents in rural Alabama, the youngest of 10 children in my family; how my very intelligent father was illiterate, and my mother, our home educator, ended her own schooling as a young girl in eighth grade to go to work to help her family survive; how my parents, despite their own experience, placed such a high value on education that two of their children, myself included, overcame great financial obstacles, among others, to attend and graduate from college. My roadmap through higher education administration has charted the most rewarding and gratifying journey, particularly given the knowledge of my modest beginnings. Full disclosure: I
would not be completely forthcoming to say that I believe my story has no greater importance. What makes it important for others to hear, I believe, is its ubiquity. My story, in its infinite iterations, is a common one, about the power of opportunity to transform the lives of people to whom opportunity has long been denied. It is one of many stories that illustrate the success of the mission of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including Morgan State. Being chosen in 2010 to take the baton held by my predecessors, the past presidents of this great institution, was an incredible honor and a tremendous responsibility that I have accepted in their full weight. I have challenged myself and challenged this university always to strive to be better and do better, knowing the consequences of our responsibility to the students we serve.
And I have seen our efforts bear fruit as success that has often surpassed our goals. I thank all of the members of the Morgan family — students, alumni, faculty, staff, regents and supporters — who have made our advancement over the past decade possible with your hard work, your talent and your commitment to the University. I hope you find the information in this 10-year retrospective as inspirational as I do, and I look forward to continuing our work together as we transform our National Treasure.
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The Past as Prologue: Morgan’s 2011–2021 Strategic Plan
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ounded in 1867 by an interracial coalition of ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morgan State University — Centenary Biblical Institute then — was part of an educational movement in Baltimore City that had begun to move African Americans slowly up the socioeconomic ladder in the late 18th century. By the beginning of the tenure of its 10th president, David Kwabena Wilson, Ed.D., in July 2010, Morgan was a well-set pillar of Baltimore City and the region, having prepared generations of students for careers in critical areas such as education, social work and civic governance and having laid the academic groundwork for many who went on to excel in fields such as medicine and the law. The University’s influence in what is now known as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) had also been growing for decades and had flourished with initiatives such as the founding of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering in 1984.
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Morgan had represented a rare opportunity for a large percentage of its students, those who were members of racial or income groups traditionally denied higher education. And thousands had made the most of that opportunity, benefiting their communities, the city, the state and the nation as well as themselves and their families. The question that faced Morgan’s new president was how best to extend Morgan’s success. In his second month in office, Dr. Wilson initiated a strategic planning process to determine the course of Morgan’s journey during the next 10 years and to fulfill the aspirations of the University’s new motto, “Growing the Future, Leading the World.” The Strategic Plan Steering Committee he appointed was composed of members of the University’s Board of Regents, faculty, students, staff, alumni, administrators and deans, in addition to representatives of the neighborhood and local business communities, who met over several months to receive input from the Morgan community. The end product of the committee’s work, “Growing the Future, Leading the World: The Strategic Plan for Morgan State University, 2011–2021,” redefined the institution with new vision and mission statements and a set of core values, all supporting five strategic goals to be addressed with strategic initiatives with measurable results.
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In his closing remarks to new graduates at Morgan’s Commencement exercises, Dr. Wilson always includes a celestial metaphor:
We have challenged you in every respect, and we have dared you to dream dreams bigger than those you had when you entered this institution. We have summoned you along the way to reach for the stars, and then we have cautioned you that if indeed you grasp that star, that perhaps your aspiration was simply not great enough. These words applied as well to the broader Morgan community as it reached for the goals of the 2011–2021 Strategic Plan. Over the past nine years, the University has grasped a remarkable number of the plan’s ambitious objectives, well ahead of schedule, and has extended its reach even further toward greatness. Within a decade’s time, a new era of prosperity has emerged: an era punctuated by innovation and emboldened momentum and fueled by sustained growth, development and ‚ expansion. Welcome to the new ‘Morgan Modern Era! n
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This Leader in Mind More than 2,000 attendees gathered for the formal installation of Morgan State University’s 10th president, David K. Wilson, Ed.D., on Oct. 21, 2010. The event took place in the Gilliam Concert Hall of the University’s Murphy Fine Arts Center. “Best wishes to Dr. David Wilson and to Morgan State University from President Barack Obama and from Education Secretary Arne Duncan,” said John S. Wilson Jr., Ph.D., executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs, who was among the speakers for the occasion. “Both of them have looked across the globe and have said, ‘Those who out-educate us today will outcompete us tomorrow.’ And they insist that our colleges, HBCUs, must be strengthened to ensure that America is not out-educated. The fact is, we need a surge in quality and productivity from HBCUs, and that will require, among other things, a new surge of productivity and quality from HBCU leadership. And I want everybody in here to know that Dr. David Wilson is just the kind of leader we have in mind.”
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Celebrating Morgan’s Sesquicentennial Vision Statement Morgan State University is the premier public urban research university in Maryland known for its excellence in teaching, intensive research, effective public service and community engagement. Morgan prepares diverse and competitive graduates for success in a global, interdependent society.
Morgan State University celebrated its 150th anniversary in grand style, with more than 80 events and ancillary activities held from December 2016 to December 2017. The activities engaged Morgan students, faculty, administrators, retirees, alumni and supporters of the University and the entire Morgan community, in a commemoration of the extraordinary role that Morgan has played in educating the citizens of Baltimore, Maryland, the nation and the world. The celebration began with a December 2016 worship service at Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, the place of Morgan’s founding, and ended during the University’s Fall 2017 Commencement Exercises, which sent forth Morgan’s 141st graduating class.
Four Living Presidents, in 2017: (left to right) Dr. Earl S. Richardson, Dr. David Wilson, King Virgil Cheek, J.D., and Dr. Andrew Billingsley
Morgan’s four living presidents, King Virgil Cheek, J.D., who served from 1971 to 1974, Andrew Billingsley, Ph.D. (1975–1984), Earl Richardson, Ed.D. (1984–2010) and David Wilson, Ed.D. (2010–present), who appeared together for the first time at the University’s Spring 2017 Undergraduate Commencement exercises
Mission Statement Morgan State University serves the community, region, state, nation and world as an intellectual and creative resource by supporting, empowering and preparing highquality, diverse graduates to lead the world. The University offers innovative, inclusive and distinctive educational experiences to a broad cross-section of the population in a comprehensive range of disciplines at the baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and professional degree levels. Through collaborative pursuits, scholarly research, creative endeavors and dedicated public service, the University gives significant priority to addressing societal problems, particularly those prevalent in urban communities.
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Core Values The core values below guide the promotion of student learning and success, faculty scholarship and research, and community engagement at Morgan:
Integrity. At Morgan, honest communications, ethical behavior and accountability for words and deeds are expected from all members of the University community. Excellence. Excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, creative endeavors, student services, and in all aspects of the University’s operations, is continuously pursued at Morgan to ensure institutional effectiveness and efficiency.
Diversity. A broad diversity of people and ideas are welcomed and supported at Morgan as essential to quality education in a global interdependent society. Students will have reasonable and affordable access to a comprehensive range of high-quality educational programs and services.
Respect. Each person at Morgan is to be treated with respect and dignity and is to be treated equitably in all situations.
Leadership. Morgan seeks to provide rigorous academic curricula and challenging co-curricular opportunities to promote the development of leadership qualities in students and to facilitate leadership development among faculty, staff and students.
Innovation. Morgan encourages and supports its faculty, staff and students in all forms of scholarship, including the discovery and application of knowledge in teaching and learning and in developing innovative products and processes.
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Goal 1: Enhancing Student Success Morgan will create an educational environment that enhances student success by hiring and retaining well qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty and staff, offering challenging, internationally relevant academic curricula, and welcoming and supporting a diverse and inclusive campus community.
Goal 2: Enhancing Morgan’s Status as a Doctoral Research University Morgan will enhance its status as a Doctoral Research University through its success in securing grants and contracts and its faculty’s achievements in basic and applied research, professional expression, artistic creation and creative inquiry. Additionally, initiatives will be designed to enhance doctoral achievement in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) and non-STEM disciplines for underrepresented students of color.
Goal 3: Improving and Sustaining Morgan’s Infrastructure and Operational Processes Morgan will enhance its infrastructure and processes by improving the efficiency and efficacy of its operating procedures, by focusing on the environmental sustainability of its facilities and by meeting the technological customer service needs of its students, faculty, staff and community.
Goal 4: Growing Morgan’s Resources Morgan will expand its human capital as well as its financial resources by investing in the professional development of faculty, staff and students, seeking greater financial support from alumni, the State and federal governments, private and philanthropic sources, and establishing collaborative relationships with private and public entities. The issue of indirect costs associated with contracts and grants will be revisited.
Goal 5: Engaging With the Community Morgan will engage with community residents and officials in the use of knowledge derived from faculty and student research, the sharing of mutually beneficial resources, and the appropriate and timely dispatch of University experts and professionals to collaborate in addressing community concerns.
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ooted in a rich past, Morgan State University’s academic tree has multiplied in height and grown many new branches since 2010. Today, our institution offers 126 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, up from 96 a decade ago, in addition to a dozen post-baccalaureate certificates. The University launched its first online degree program, a doctoral in Community College Leadership, in 2010. That program now stands with 14 others that have helped Morgan keep pace with the advancement of higher education in the Digital Age. Morgan has established itself as a center of excellence in key disciplines — disciplines such as Actuarial Science, Architecture and Environmental Design, Interior Design and Psychometrics — in which the University offers the sole degree program in Maryland. A number of those programs exclusive to MSU are in the science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields, which are increasingly important to progress and prosperity in today’s global economy. Long known for our achievements in the humanities, Morgan is also a standout now in STEM, graduating more technical degree holders than the national average and having a higher percentage of STEM-employed alumni than any other college or university in Maryland. Teaching at Morgan has been outstanding since our earliest days and has been raised to an even higher level over the past 10 years by the increase in our number of tenure-track faculty and the number of our faculty with terminal degrees. Our newest school, the School of Global Journalism and Communication (SGJC), only seven years in existence, already has attracted a world-class faculty — including two Pulitzer Prize winners — and has produced many stellar alumni of its bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. In May 2020, the SGJC became one of only 118 schools worldwide — and only the second in Maryland — to receive accreditation from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC).
New Academic Degree Programs Approved by MHEC Since 2010 2010 PBC Urban Transportation 2011 EDD Community College Leadership Online PBC Project Management Online MS Project Management Online BS Electrical Engineering Online BS Electrical Engineering Off-Campus Offering at Harford CC MS Electrical Engineering MS Operations Research 2012 BS Services and Supply Chain Management 2013 PBC Cyber Security BS Multimedia Journalism BS Architecture and Environmental Design to MS Landscape Architecture BS Architecture and Environmental Design to MS City Regional Planning 2014 BS Strategic Communication PHD Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems BS Multi-platform Production
2016 MSW Social Work Online PBC Urban Journalism Online MPH Master of Public Health Online AOC Executive Health Management MED Community College Administration and Instruction PBC Sustainable Urban Communities MBA Online and 6 AOCs Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing Management, Marketing Research, International Management 2017 RN to BS Nursing to MPH BS Applied Liberal Arts 2018 BS in Transportation Systems Engineering BS in Interior Design 2020 MS in Advanced Computing (Pending MHEC approval) BS in Cloud Computing MS in Project Management (1-year to MBA) PHD in Secure Embedded Systems (Pending MHEC approval)
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During the past decade, Morgan has grown from regional and national influence to become an institution with truly global reach, more than doubling our number of international students from 2010 through 2019, growing our number of students engaged in study abroad to a record high and forming academic partnerships with universities beyond the United States for student and faculty exchange and other collaborations. In February 2020, the MSU Board of Regents approved a proposal that placed Morgan among a select few U.S.-based universities offering degree programs in Africa. The University is set to begin offering three degrees in Ghana through a pilot program in fall 2020 — a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Science in Global Multimedia Journalism and Communications and a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship — in partnership with the African
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University College of Communications. In May 2020, the University announced a five-year agreement with Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) that will sponsor up to 50 new Ph.D. students and up to 20 postdoctoral researchers from public tertiary institutions in Nigeria for study and research at Morgan each year. China, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are among many other countries where Morgan began new academic collaborations that have brought large numbers of international students to the MSU campus since 2010. Morgan’s recent success in the world arena came as a result of an intentional push from the University administration, accompanied by organizational change. The University’s Division of International Affairs was established in 2014.
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During a public ceremony on Morgan’s campus on April 19, 2012, Hubei University President Xiong Jianmin and MSU President David K. Wilson signed an agreement to establish a student exchange program. The program, which included a dual-degree option, sent Morgan students to study at Hubei University in China and brought Hubei students to MSU. Exchange programs with major employers in the technology sector have likewise enhanced the educational experience of Morgan students and faculty in recent years. Since the start of the 2018–19 academic year, a total of seven MSU students have participated in the Google Tech Exchange Program, initiative GoogleTech an that offers students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) the opportunity to take computer science and soft skills classes at the Googleplex
— the company’s corporate headquarters campus, in Mountain View, California — for one year or one semester during their junior year. Engineer in Residence agreements with Google and Facebook have enabled eight employees of the two Silicon Valley tech giants to bring their knowledge to students and faculty of Morgan’s School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences since 2016. Development of the campus culture through intellectual engagement has been a high priority of the current Morgan State University administration.
The Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series was launched in March 2016 to bring the nation’s leading thought leaders from various professional fields of study to MSU. The Series is in keeping with Morgan’s mission of serving the community, region, state, nation and world as an intellectual and creative resource by supporting, empowering and preparing high-quality, diverse graduates to lead the world. It provides a platform for thoughtful and provocative discussions that explore the best ideas on issues that are pertinent to our students, our community and our nation. n
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Bringing Diversity of Thought to Campus Through its Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series (PDSS), Commencement Exercises and other special events and occasions, Morgan State University brought an impressive array of diverse thought leaders to campus between 2010 and
2020. Their addresses, lectures and discussions reflected the University’s commitment to providing a platform for the best ideas on issues pertinent to Morgan students, the MSU community and the nation.
Photos below showcase a sampling of guest speakers and does not represent the full account of diverse thought leaders invited to Morgan within the last decade.
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Ruth J. Simmons, Ph.D. President, Brown University Spring 2011 Commencement Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring 2012 Commencement Arne Duncan U.S. Secretary of Education Spring 2013 Commencement Graça Machel President, Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique Spring 2015 Commencement Thomas L. Friedman Author and Journalist PDSS March 2016 Nancy Pelosi Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives Spring 2016 Commencement Roland S. Martin Journalist and Author Fall 2016 Commencement Charles Blow New York Times Op-Ed Columnist PDSS September 2016
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Maxine Williams Global Director of Diversity, Facebook Yolanda Mangolini Global Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Google PDSS March 2017
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Joe Biden U.S. Vice President Spring 2017 Commencement Ana Navarro GOP Strategist and Political Analyst PDSS March 2018 The Honorable Loretta Lynch 83rd Attorney General of the United States PDSS September 2018
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Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senator Fall 2018 Commencement The Reverend Al Sharpton Founder and President, National Action Network PDSS, April 2019 Elijah E. Cummings U.S. Representative Spring 2019 Commencement
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Peter Neufeld Cofounder and Special Counsel, Innocence Project PDSS, September 2019 James E. Clyburn U.S. Representative Fall 2019 Commencement
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Electrical engineer Isaiah Weaver, MSU Class of 2018, benefited from extensive study abroad during his matriculation at Morgan.
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An agreement between Morgan State University and Salud Education, LLC, signed in January 2020 called for the establishment of a College of Osteopathic Medicine on MSU’s campus. Scheduled to open in early 2023, the college will be the first new medical school at an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in nearly 45 years and the first-ever osteopathic medical school at an HBCU. The College of Osteopathic Medicine at MSU will also be the only such school offering a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) in a region spanning Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia and Northern Virginia.
Two recent additions to the programs offered by the Department of Computer Science have solidified Morgan’s place as a leader in higher education in the burgeoning field. The Bachelor of Science Degree in Cloud Computing program, the only such program in Maryland, provides innovative, inclusive, hands-on, workforce-oriented, distinctive educational experiences to a diverse population, including traditional students, adult learners and other nontraditional scholars. Cloud computing technologists are in great demand across a wide variety of sectors such as financial technology, healthcare and government as well as at retail firms such as Amazon, which has partnered with Morgan to provide opportunities to Morgan Cloud Computing majors to work in internships at various tech companies. Morgan’s Cloud Computing program prepares students to enter a lucrative and dynamic job market.
“We have an obligation, given our mission and charge, to explore any and all possibilities to create meaningful educational opportunities for our students,” said MSU President David K. Wilson. “…Given the dearth of African Americans who are entering and graduating from medical school today, it is imperative that Morgan position itself as a viable destination and pipeline for those pursuing degrees in medicine within this underrepresented group.”
Also in response to the nation’s need for a skilled computing workforce, Morgan launched a Master of Science in Advanced Computing degree program this year. Based on an innovative curriculum, the new program is designed for students who have recently completed a bachelor’s degree program in computer science and/or related fields and who wish to enhance their careers, explore research opportunities in computer science or apply their acquired skills in transdisciplinary teams or for a specific focus. With a one-year completion option, the M.S. in Advanced Computing serves as a complement to the new Bachelor of Science in Cloud Computing. Morgan’s Department of Computer Science is housed in the University’s School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. MORGAN.EDU
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t’s not by accident that “Enhancing Student Success” is the first goal listed in Morgan’s 2011–2021 Strategic Plan, and the intense focus on Goal 1 has yielded many positive results. The preceding section presents some of the means by which the University sought to move its students to greater academic achievement over the past decade. What follows is a synopsis of the end results of those efforts. After a stirring address by journalist Roland S. Martin, MSU Computer Science major Joseph L. Jones of Baltimore became Morgan’s 50,000th graduate, during the University’s Fall 2016 Commencement Exercises, held in Hill Field House. Since then, Morgan has conferred an additional 3,994 baccalaureates and an additional 1,307 master’s and doctoral degrees, bringing the total number of MSU graduates to more than 55,000. Key to this achievement was the innovative work in which we’ve engaged to move our students from matriculation to graduation. The award-winning initiatives of our Office of Student Success and Retention, part of our Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success, are
major reasons why Morgan has achieved its goals for second-year retention, which has remained above 70 percent since the 2010–11 academic year. Moreover, the University is also making steady progress toward our “50 x 25” goal, which is to achieve a six-year graduation rate of 50 percent by the year 2025. The graduation rate for the cohort of students who entered Morgan in 2014 was 46.2 percent, a significant improvement over the 29 percent rate for the students who entered in 2005, and the highest rate on record for the University.
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Morgan is proud of its increasing student enrollment during an era marked by declines in that statistic at many fouryear institutions of higher education across the country. Our student body now comprises more than 7,763 scholars, a number that represents a 7.4 percent increase over our enrollment in 2009, and our applicant numbers for the Fall 2020 semester bode well for enrollment growth above 8,000. We are even more proud of the countless success stories within our enrollment, retention and graduation statistics, Morgan students who have earned national recognition for their scholarship and service.
Education is a family endeavor, and Morgan’s Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success (EMASS) facilitated greater parental involvement with the launch of the University’s Parent Portal in August 2019. The website is a “one-stop shop” for parents to gain access to important campus news and deadlines; insight into their students’ progress and financial details; personalized newsletters; email announcements; and updates shared with family and friends. As the diversity of Morgan’s student body continues to grow, in line with our Core Values, our tradition of success in advancing our original mission of providing higher education to African Americans continues with vigor. Morgan is a leader in Maryland and the nation in producing African-American recipients of academic degrees in many key disciplines. MSU is first among traditional campuses in the state in the number of baccalaureates awarded to African Americans, and we are first among all institutions in Maryland and among the top 10 campuses nationwide in the number of doctorates awarded to African Americans. n
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A Winning Retention Strategy Morgan’s Office of Student Success and Retention is the recipient of the 2017 Hobsons Education Advances Award for Student Success and Advisement; the 2016 Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Turning Points: From Setback to Student Success Award; and the 2015 Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Project Degree Completion Award. Morgan is the only Historically Black College or University to have received these national awards.
The student success model at MSU includes a comprehensive early alert system, intrusive advising, ongoing tracking and monitoring of student cohorts, transparent and consistent notetaking, and specific programs and initiatives designed and delivered to promote degree completion.
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The ‘50 x 25’ Initiative Since 1867, Morgan State University has advanced the welfare of its students and the broader community by offering the opportunity of higher learning. Today, as Maryland’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University and a leader in 21st century innovation, we have our sights set on 2025. A campaign we call “50 by 25,” launched in 2017, is building on our institution’s Strategic Plan to achieve a measurable goal: increasing Morgan’s graduation rate to 50 percent by 2025.
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Morgan’s graduation rate increased from 29% in 2010 to 46.3% in 2020.
Vital to this effort is the HBCU Student Success Project, the key components of which are a campus-wide predictive analytics system and a second-year experiential learning opportunity. This project, inspired and funded by Morgan’s partner Lumina Foundation, works to close degree attainment gaps between groups and enhance academic achievement, particularly for those who are Pell Grant-eligible, and is adding to our momentum in improved student success. MORGAN.EDU
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law passed by the Maryland General Assembly and signed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in May 2017 designated Morgan State University as the state’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University. MSU’s accomplishments over the previous seven years had proven the designation well-earned. After decades of foundational work, transformative research achievements came in quick succession beginning in 2010, when the University gained a $3.1-million share of a $129-million U.S. Department of Energy grant to Penn State University to research energy innovation. Another major milestone was reached in 2011, when MSU procured its largest research contract to date: a $28.5-million, five-year agreement with NASA in a program titled GESTAR, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research. Two years later, the University established its Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED), which has primary responsibility
for research policy, oversight of the administration and management of grants and contracts to support faculty research activity, and oversight of responsible conduct of research education and compliance at Morgan. D-RED works with the University’s deans and department chairs to develop and support institutional and crossdisciplinary research initiatives and serves as the initial point of contact for organizations interested in connecting with the MSU research enterprise to explore possible collaborations. The organizational change that created D-RED has yielded tremendous benefits, as the division — and its previous incarnations — has overseen more than $314 million in awarded contracts and grants. Among the many highlights: in 2014, Morgan received a $23.3-million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch “A StudentCentered, Entrepreneurship Development” (ASCEND) Training Model to Increase Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce.” The competitive award was the
second-largest in the University’s history and the highest to date to Morgan from the NIH. Additional wins increased Morgan’s momentum in research in 2019: to list just a few, the NIH continued its support of ASCEND with $16.9 million in additional funding; NASA and USRA, Morgan’s lead partner in GESTAR, extended the University’s participation in that program for an additional five years, increasing the value of the contract to $40 million; and a fiveyear grant from the Silicon Valley-based financial technology (“fintech”) firm Ripple funded an academic partnership to advance research, technical development and innovation at MSU in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.
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In December 2018, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education moved Morgan to an elevated classification of R2, a status reserved for doctoral universities with high research activity. The University joined only 130 other institutions nationwide — including fewer than a dozen HBCUs — that have an R2 classification. The elevation by Carnegie came as a result of a long, concerted effort of Morgan faculty and staff to increase the number of qualified graduates of the University and expand the types of research conducted on campus as well as in the community. Morgan faculty research spans all academic disciplines, from child welfare to cybersecurity, from music composition to sustainable development.
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The University’s research programs have inspired thought leaders, scientists and students and serve as a catalyst for economic growth in Baltimore and in the state of Maryland. Statistics show that Morgan generates significantly more key innovation outputs and outcomes per research dollar than state and national averages. Thus, dollars invested in Morgan go further in producing innovations such as invention disclosures and start-up companies, specifically innovation that directly benefits the state, its population and its natural resources. Morgan’s focus on innovation has also enhanced the University’s campus operations, in areas ranging from course delivery to facilities construction to digital communication. n
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Serial Number U.S. Patent 10,673,469
Title Multi-band multi-mode software defined radio
U.S. Patent 10,626,363
Engineered cyanobacteria with enhanced salt tolerance System and method for lighting and building occupant tracking System and method for biomass combustion Lighting and building occupant tracking Metal-assisted and microwave-accelerated evaporative crystallization Portable shellfish basket washer
U.S. Patent 10,333,620 U.S. Patent 10,253,974 U.S. Patent 9,973,275 U.S. Patent 9,243,017 U.S. Patent 10,688,541
Inventors Willie Thompson; Samuel Berhanu; Jan-Paul Alleyne Viji Sitther; Behnam Tabatabai Kofi Nyarko; Christian Emiyah; Samuel Mbugua Seong Lee Kofi Nyarko; Christian Emiyah; Samuel Mbugua Kadir Aslan Ted Cooney and Dong Hee Kang, Ph.D.
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Morgan Innovation Start-up Companies, 2010–2020 Start-up Companies Formed by Local Entrepreneurs, Based on Morgan Innovations Company STEAM Abroad, Inc. The Literacy Rescue, LLC
Morgan Innovation Description Global Competency Study Abroad Platform Adaptive Intelligence to Improve Literacy
HaloCyTech, LLC * SVE Technologies, LLC CykloBurn Technologies, LLC * iCrystal, LLC
Cyanobacteria BioProducts Toroidal Combustion Chamber Ultra-Clean Biomass Combustor Microwave-Accelerated Crystallization
Morgan Innovator(s) Kimberly Warren Kimberly Reaves; LeeRoy Bronner; Kofi Nyarko Viji Sitther; Behnam Tabatabai Arthur Willoughby Seong Lee Kadir Aslan
*License agreement established
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D-RED’s Leadership In December 2012, Morgan State University President David K. Wilson announced the selection of Victor R. McCrary, Ph.D., to fill the University’s newly created position of vice president for research and economic development. The unit Dr. McCrary was selected to lead, Morgan’s Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED), was formally established in 2013.
Willie E. May, Ph.D.
With Dr. McCrary’s departure from Morgan to join the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2018, the University selected Willie E. May, Ph.D., to lead D-RED. Dr. May came to Morgan from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was director of major research and training initiatives for the
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Immediately before taking that post, he served as the Senateconfirmed U.S. undersecretary of commerce for standards and technology and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), capping a 45-year career at that institution. Under his leadership, Morgan’s research and innovation outputs have continued their upward trajectory.
Over the past 10 years, D-RED (previously Research Administration, Sponsored Programs) has overseen more than $314 million in awarded contracts and grants.
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Morgan Innovation Day
First Technology Transfer Agreement
Annual Innovation Awards
Morgan State University’s Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED) and MSU’s Office of Technology Transfer hosted the 10th Annual Morgan Innovation Day in February 2020, at the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis, Maryland. The event, launched during the first year of MSU President David K. Wilson’s tenure, serves in part as a progress report on Maryland’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University and the beneficial social and economic impact of its work on the state and the region. Morgan Innovation Day has given opportunities to Morgan faculty, students and staff to showcase hundreds of research projects and innovations for state and local legislators and other government officials since 2011.
Technology developed by Seong Lee, Ph.D., and his research staff in the Center for Advanced Energy Systems and Environmental Control Technologies (CAESECT) in Morgan’s Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering led to the execution of Morgan’s first-ever technology licensing contract in 2018. “Method and Design of the Ultra-Clean Mobile Combustor for Waste Biomass and Poultry Litter Disposal,” commonly referred to as CycloBurn, is being commercialized by Cykloburn Technologies, LLC, a company formed by two Maryland entrepreneurs. The technology addresses two significant societal needs: managing environmentally damaging pollution from excess poultry farm litter and generating energy — both electricity and heat — from renewable resources. The technology represents a significant value proposition to individual poultry farmers, by ridding them of poultry waste, creating electricity for operations and providing heat for poultry houses.
A building occupant tracking system, a bio-product production method, a diabetic shoe and custom insole, and a perceived risk methodology were among the “Morgan Made” scientific and technological advancements and solutions honored at MSU’s Second Annual Innovation of the Year Awards, in December 2019. Created by the Office of Technology Transfer of the University’s Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED) , the awards aim to celebrate campuswide innovation and recognize the contributions of the Morgan community and University advancement through discovery, invention and development.
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Grant Funding Expands Research at PEARL Morgan’s Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) secured nearly a half-million dollars in research grants in 2019 to advance the vitality and sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The grants, totaling $471,000, were awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Sea Grant and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The funds are providing critical resources to support specific programs and active research PEARL is now spearheading or supporting in consortia.
PEARL, located in St. Leonard, Maryland, became part of the University in 2004. Its mission is “to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development.”
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MSU Centers, Institutes and Initiatives The Center for Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) Center for Global Studies and International Education (CGSIE) Center for Signal and Sensor Processing (SIGSENS) Center for Advanced Energy Systems and Environmental Control Technologies (CAESECT) Center of Excellence in Tactical and Advanced Communication Technologies (CETACT) Center of Microwave /Satellite and Radio Frequency Engineering (COMSARE) Engineering Visualization and Research Laboratory (EVRL) Center for Biomedical Research (ASCEND) Center for Sexual Health Advancement and Prevention Education (SHAPE) Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) Urban Mobility and Equity Center (UMEC) National Transportation Center (NTC) Network Information and Embedded Systems Security Center of Academic Excellence (NIESS-CAE)
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MSU STATE APPROPRIATIONS FY2010
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t is not uncommon for Morgan alumni to report being moved to tears at their first sight of the positive development of the campus since their graduation a decade ago or more. Indeed, the visual impact of the transformation created by more than $271 million in campus construction over the past 10 years is stunning. Among many improvements, large, modern facilities now highlight the grounds at the northern, central and southern approaches to the campus from Hillen Road, blending beautifully into the well-kept greenery of the nation’s only HBCU campus named a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The impact of the campus improvements on Morgan’s mission has been just as strong. The University’s well-planned investment in its facilities and other physical infrastructure has helped enhance the quality of the education Morgan offers, grow the University’s enrollment numbers and increase the competency and competiveness of our students. Equipped with state-of-the-art learning environments that simulate real-life workplaces, Morgan students are receiving handson instruction that makes them more marketable and better prepared for further study in advanced degree programs. In addition, our campus is attracting new faculty, facilitating partnerships with other organizations, and is growing opportunities to conduct research that benefits community and economic development in the city of Baltimore and the surrounding region.
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A few highlights of Morgan’s physical improvements since July 2010 follow: • Two new, state-of-the-art facilities were constructed on the West Campus: the $79-million Martin D. Jenkins Hall, Behavioral and Social Sciences Center and the $81-million Morgan Business Center, the home of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management. • A third pedestrian bridge was constructed, the eye-catching Legacy Bridge, linking the University’s main campus and West Campus. • Campus information technology infrastructure was completely overhauled and improved, greatly increasing the campus’s technological capabilities. • Construction of the new, $88-million Calvin and Tina Tyler Hall Student Services Building on the main campus was completed. • Ground was broken for Northwood Commons, a $50-million renovation of Northwood Plaza Shopping Center, flanking the West Campus. • Design and construction of a new, $156-million Health and Human Services Building was slated. • Design and construction of a new, $240-million Science Complex scheduled for completion in 2027. n
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in Total Capital Investments since 2010 New Student Services Center
Officially opening in fall 2020, the newly constructed Calvin and Tina Tyler Hall houses student service and administrative support functions, including Admissions, Records and Registration, Financial Aid, Bursar, Comptroller and Human Resources. The 139,000-square-foot facility — an eye-catching architectural marvel located at the corner of Hillen Road and E. Cold Spring Lane, in Morgan Commons — encompasses five stories; features an expansive, interconnected three-story lobby atrium; and was designed to achieve LEED Silver Certification for optimum energy and environmental efficiency.
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West Campus Facilities The Morgan Business Center, home of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management, opened in August 2015. The $72-million, six-story complex features a real-time capital markets stock trading center, a Center for Innovation, computer labs, classrooms, seminar rooms and a 299-person-capacity auditorium that includes an 80-person lecture hall.
Morgan Business Center
Martin D. Jenkins Hall, Behavioral and Social Sciences Center opened in September 2017 and serves as the home of the James H. Gilliam Jr. College of Liberal Arts. Jenkins Hall features flexible classrooms for traditional lectures or group learning, collaborative open spaces for faculty and students, Northwood Commons
Northwood Commons
Neighboring the University’s West Campus is Northwood Plaza Shopping Center, a place of great historical significance to Morganites. Many students who attended what was then Morgan State College, during the civil rights era, participated in some of the nation’s earliest successful sit-ins and other direct actions to integrate the popular retail and entertainment venues at Northwood. Now long in decline, the shopping center is undergoing a $50-million redevelopment as Northwood
room placements that promote interdisciplinary learning, an instructional design development suite to support the continuing education of faculty, a 170-seat auditorium and a technology-rich environment. The $79-million, 148,000-square-foot facility replaced the original Jenkins building, which opened in 1974 on the Academic Quad. Jenkins Hall
Commons. The redevelopment plans confirmed to date include shops; a newly announced Lidl supermarket; a Fulton Bank; and a full-service restaurant. Also, two facilities now on Morgan’s campus will be relocated to Northwood Commons: the Morgan State University Barnes & Noble Bookstore, which will have a Starbucks café, and the MSU Police and Public Safety Department building. The groundbreaking for Northwood Commons was held in November 2018, and opening is anticipated for 2022. MORGAN.EDU
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Athletic Upgrades The 2019–20 academic and athletic year welcomed a new look to the field and adjacent running track at W.A.C. Hughes Memorial Stadium. The $2.5-million renovation project included the installation of a new, premium FieldTurf playing surface and an upgrade to a new high-performance, all-weather track. Additional repair/replacement of under-surface systems were performed to improve water drainage. The renovation project was part of an ongoing, comprehensive enhancement initiative to improve the conditions, look and feel of the University’s athletic accommodations. The latest round of improvements came on the heels of the University’s installation of a new scoreboard and facility branding enhancements at the stadium; redesign of the Talmadge Hill Field House court, including new LED video displays; lighting and windscreens for the tennis courts; and upgrades to the Lois T. Murray Softball Field. Morgan’s scholar-athletes were also provided with a new academic center located in Hill Field House. The University invested approximately $5 million in improving its athletic facilities from 2016 through 2019.
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Morgan’s Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS) Opened in 2012, CBEIS is a 125,000-square-foot, $67-million, stateof-the-art facility housing research and instructional programs in Architecture and Planning; Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies; and Civil Engineering, in a highly cooperative and collaborative setting. The USGBC Gold LEED-certified building is equipped with innovative technologies such as 3D projectors; solar panels; an architecture studio with high-quality, large-format plotters and 3-D printers; and a model shop with laser cutters and a CNC Router. CBEIS is also home to one of only two earthquake simulators on the East Coast.
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Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum
Preserving a Civil Rights Legacy in West Baltimore
of the struggle for freedom and equality in the United States and thus declared The late Lillie May Carroll Jackson served that her home should be a civil rights museum. more than three decades as president of the Baltimore Branch of the National In 1978, her family made her dream Association for the Advancement of a reality. Morgan State University, Colored People (NAACP). A brilliant which shared the vision, acquired the organizer and tireless public servant, Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Jackson, according to the Baltimore Afro- Museum in 1996, restored the structure, American, led the work that made the transformed it into a modern museum branch “the largest in the country, which and reopened its doors on June 11, has to its credit the largest number 2016. In December 2019, the University of important legal victories.” Jackson announced the receipt of a three-year, wanted all people to know the history $248,442 grant award from the Institute
of Museum and Library Services to fund the development of a programmatic, civil rights-based educational curriculum for the museum aimed at Baltimore City middle school and high school students and to address key staffing needs at the facility. The museum has an adjacent Resource Center for researchers interested in the civil rights movement in Baltimore and nationwide. It also provides hands-on experience for Morgan students in the University’s Museum Studies and History Departments.
>Campus Development
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Legends Plaza
hurt banks Legends Plaza, a nearly 2,000-squarefoot campus memorial to Morgan State University’s athletic greats, was unveiled in October 2017, during a ceremony attended by MSU students, faculty, administrators and guests, members of Morgan’s Board of Regents and MSU alumni, including several hall of fame
Coach Edward P. (“Eddie”) Hurt
players. The memorial, designed and created by the artistic vision of Morgan alumnus George Nock, honors two head coaches who, for more than 40 years, led Morgan scholar-athletes to stellar achievements on and off the field of play. The enclosure on Morgan Commons between the front entrance of Hughes
Stadium and the University Student Center, features six-foot bronze statues of the late Coach Edward P. (“Eddie”) Hurt and the late Coach Earl C. (“Papa Bear”) Banks. The memorial will eventually include bronze plaques honoring other Morgan sports legends on a 30-foot fence between the two anchoring statues.
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New Residence Hall In collaboration with the Maryland Economic Development Corporation (MEDCO), the University has begun the preliminary design for the construction of a modern, apartment-style residence facility that will be located on Morgan’s South Campus, adjacent to the site of the Thurgood Marshall Apartment Complex. Meeting the University’s need for increased student residential housing, the new residence hall will provide hundreds of beds and dining to accommodate Morgan’s growing new and returning student population. The projected completion date for the new residence hall is fall 2022.
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Meals by SodexoMAGIC Answering the call from the campus community and student leaders for expanded meal options and modern conveniences and amenities, Morgan announced a new contract with the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based dining services provider SodexoMAGIC, LLC, in July 2020. The five-year, nearly $45-million agreement will bring facility upgrades and renovations, technological integrations, a variety of dining options and food locations, student-friendly meal plans and other elements of an enhanced dining experience beginning in fall 2020. SodexoMAGIC is a joint venture of Sodexo Inc. and Magic Food Provisions (MFP), which is owned by NBA legend and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Earvin “Magic” Johnson. The company was formed in 2006 to provide food and facilities management services to businesses, hospitals, schools and universities. Among the enhancements of the new service are a food concept package that will bring some of Baltimore City’s best eateries to campus; allergen-friendly meal programs; a mobile app feature for ordering takeout and made-to-order items; food deliveries by robot, via Starship; and convenient food locations campus-wide.
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Giving
>Financial Advancement
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Financial Advancement boosted our physical and programmatic expansion.
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central part of Morgan State University’s success story, from the beginning, has been the monetary support of the institution’s mission, which includes providing higher education to those traditionally denied. The coalition that founded Morgan as Centenary Biblical Institute in 1867, and that grew the institution through its first decades, was financially assisted by hundreds and thousands of dollars from prominent white citizens as well as the dimes and pennies of common black folk committed to the advancement of their youth and their community. Later, the largesse of wealthy donors such as industrialist Andrew Carnegie made the move to our current campus in northeast Baltimore possible. Since 1939, when Morgan became a public institution, funding provided by the State of Maryland has further
Morgan’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary Campaign, launched at the beginning of the term of President David K. Wilson in July 2010, is another great chapter in the University’s saga. The University’s Institutional Advancement team, Research and Development staff, faculty members and others collaborated successfully to raise $254 million in public and private funds — $4 million above the University’s goal and among the largest amounts ever raised for an HBCU — in an effort that both signified and enabled the tremendous growth the University has seen in recent years, growth that has continued into our current sesquicentenary. The goal of the campaign, set high in true Morgan fashion, was to raise money to support every imaginable facet of life at the institution, from underwriting student financial aid and funding new academic initiatives to growing community engagement programs and strengthening the University endowment. More than 13,000 individuals — alumni, parents, faculty and students — contributed to the record-setting sum.
The fruit of this labor is already abundant: the establishment of the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and
Social Science Institute with a large grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; strong support of Actuarial Science and Business and Management students through a program funded by The Travelers Companies, Inc.; generous scholarships for future teachers provided by a grant from The Patterson Family Foundation; and an unprecedented expansion of our Study Abroad program made possible by the Five Dollar Scholarship Fund, to name just a few. Anniversary Campaign funds raised from public and private sources have already led to the establishment of 30 new research and academic programs.
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Moreover, since the conclusion of the Anniversary Campaign in December 2018, fundraising for Morgan has continued apace. The University raised $13.7 million during the 2019 fiscal year, an amount that significantly exceeds the annual total raised in the past. Another pillar of good stewardship supporting the University’s decade-long success has been our ability to manage the finances of the institution in light of rising costs, the increasingly competitive environment of postsecondary education
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and ever-increasing demands for limited State resources. Morgan’s proficiency in financial management over the past 10 years has gained recognition from top authorities. The annual credit rating reviews conducted by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s in the fall of 2018 affirmed the companies’ ratings of A1 and A+, respectively, with a stable outlook. In addition, the University’s latest annual check-up of its fiscal health, a financial statement audit conducted by the certified public accounting and business advisory firm
SB & Company for fiscal year 2019, resulted in no compliance issues, no material weaknesses and no instances of fraud, with full cooperation of management during the audit process. Morgan received an unmodified opinion of the University’s audited financial statement from SB & Company for the eighth consecutive year. The University’s strong credit rating and shrewd financial acumen have enhanced the Morgan brand and have been a major factor in our historic fundraising. n
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Growth of Morgan’s Endowment, 2010–2019
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Alumni Giving, 2010–2019 MSU’s alumni participation-in-giving rate stands at 14.6 percent, a rate higher than at many private HBCUs and also higher than at many public, regional institutions in the U.S. overall. Percent of Alumni Contributing 20.00% 18.00%
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Funds Raised Annually for Morgan, 2010–2019 (in millions)
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Amount $3.9 $5.0 $4.5 $5.1 $4.0 $6.0 $6.3 $10.3 $8.2 $14.0
Fiscal Year Giving – millions ($) $16.00 $14.00
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Morgan’s $1–Billion Economic Impact A report compiled in 2018 at the request of Morgan State University President David K. Wilson quantified a benefit long known by MSU supporters. “Morgan is a major economic engine for the city and state, annually producing $1 billion in statewide economic impact, supporting 6,500 jobs and generating $47 million in state tax revenues,” stated a summary of the 92-page document, which is titled “Excellence in Education, Research, and Public Service: The Economic and Social Impact of Morgan State University.” Among the other important findings of the report compiled by Philadelphia, Pa.-based economics consulting firm Econsult Solutions, Inc.:
Annual Economic Impact
• 60 percent of Morgan’s economic and employment impact occurs in Baltimore City. • Morgan students and visitors inject $88 million per year in spending into Maryland’s economy. • Dollar for dollar, Morgan is significantly more productive in innovation than Maryland’s other research universities and also produces innovations at a level higher than the national average. • Morgan students engage in more than 20,000 hours of community service annually. The report also documents the manifold societal and community impacts the
University makes: expanding the state’s talent pool and increasing its competitiveness — particularly in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields — by making higher education more accessible and affordable to more people; engaging with the community in mutually beneficial programs and other activities in public health, public safety, education, economic development, entrepreneurship and arts education, through the Morgan Community Mile; creating and implementing the programs of Morgan’s Office of Community Service; conducting research that addresses the biggest challenges of Baltimore and Maryland; and in other ways.
Total Annual Impact Maryland Annual $990 million Jobs Baltimore Supported $574 million
Maryland 6,530 Baltimore 3,990
Annual Economic Impact by Category
Operations
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Maryland $75 million
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Wage Premium
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Baltimore $62 million
Baltimore $47 million
Baltimore $163 million
Maryland $97 million
Maryland $484 million
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Largest-Ever Donation Nationally known philanthropists Calvin E. Tyler Jr. and his wife, Tina, announced a $5-million gift to Morgan State University in February 2016. The gift to the Calvin and Tina Tyler Endowed Scholarship Fund provides need-based scholarships that cover full tuition for select Morgan students who reside in Baltimore City, the Tylers’ hometown. The couple’s contribution was the largest individual donation in the school’s history. Morgan’s new student services building is named in the couple’s honor. Calvin Tyler, a retired UPS senior executive, became the first person in his family to attend college when he entered Morgan to study business administration in 1961.
(left to right) MSU President David K. Wilson, Calvin and Tina Tyler, and Cheryl Y. Hitchcock, then MSU Vice President for Institutional Advancement (2016)
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Supporting Nontraditional Students Nontraditional students are a main element of Morgan State University’s plans for growth, and the MSU Center for Continuing and Professional Studies’ Osher Reentry Scholarship Program, launched in spring 2011, is an essential tool to assist those students. A $1-million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation supports the program, which provides financial assistance to nontraditional students aged 25–50 who have experienced a gap in their educational career of five years or more and are pursuing undergraduate degrees at the University. Osher scholarship recipients have represented a broad range of academic disciplines, from Architecture and Environmental Design to Business Administration to Engineering and more. The Crankstart Foundation also provides vital help to nontraditional students at Morgan. In fall 2016, the MSU Center for Continuing and Professional Studies announced the award of a $200,000 grant from Crankstart to continue its support of the University’s scholarship program targeting adult students who reside in Maryland and who have returned to Morgan to complete bachelor’s degrees. Including an initial award of $150,000 from the Crankstart Foundation in 2016–2017, the organization has contributed $350,000 to the University to date. The inaugural cohort of Crankstart scholars was selected in spring 2017, giving them the opportunity to meet their educational goals, uplift communities and inspire others. Launching Rocketry at Morgan A high-energy group of students, faculty, administrators and nonprofit and community leaders gathered in MSU’s Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies in February 2019 to celebrate the University’s selection to receive a three-year, $1.6-million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant from the nonprofit organization Base 11. The grant is funding the build-out of a liquid-fuel rocketry lab at Morgan, as well as the recruitment and hiring of an aerospace faculty leader to create a world-class liquid fuel rocketry program at MSU. Morgan aims to bring these elements together to build and launch a liquid fuel rocket that reaches 150,000 feet by 2022. The grant drew proposals from eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Number of Private Scholarships Awarded
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56% Growth
Private Scholarships Awarded The number of private scholarships awarded annually grew 56 percent, from 994 in FY2010 to 1,551 in FY2018.
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The Five Dollar Scholarship Fund Launched by Morgan State University life savings, $5, to support the effort. The President David K. Wilson at MSU’s Five Dollar Scholarship Fund empowers annual Homecoming Gala in 2011, donors of all ages and economic means the Five Dollar Scholarship Fund to support the future success of Morgan commemorates the commitment of Dr. students. Dr. Wilson pledged $100,000 Wilson’s hardworking father to his son’s to the fund during his inauguration education and provides opportunities for as Morgan’s president, and Baltimore deserving students to pursue academic philanthropists Eddie and Sylvia Brown degrees at Morgan. matched the commitment and pledged an additional $100,000 capstone gift, Dr. Wilson grew up with 10 siblings to be given once the fund received on his parents’ sharecropper farm, $900,000. Today, the Five Dollar in McKinley, Alabama. When he was Scholarship Fund is valued at more about to leave home to attend Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) as an than $1 million, and Dr. Wilson has undergraduate, his father gave his entire contributed more than $158,000 toward the initiative’s $5-million goal.
The endowed fund provides scholarship assistance to incoming, transfer and continuing students in good academic standing, and to juniors and seniors cross-registered at Morgan and another institution or engaged in an international learning program. The Five Dollar Scholarship Fund has contributed significantly to the expansion of Morgan’s study abroad programs.
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Anniversary Campaign – Public Funds Raised A total of 30 new research and academic programs have been established with funds from Morgan’s Anniversary campaign, among them: • Formation of the Center for Reverse Engineering and Microelectronics (CREAM) for “Protection of Microelectronic Devices from Agents with Malicious Intent” (School of Engineering)
• “Automation of Data Processing for Prediction, Analysis, and Control of Complex Events and Environments” (School of Engineering)
• “Supporting Maryland Oyster Farmers Through Production of Oyster Larvae at the Morgan Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory” (MSU PEARL) (Division of Research and Economic Development)
• “Development and Implementation of Novel Training Models for Enhancing the Diversity Within the Biomedical Research Community” (School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences)
• NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations (GESTAR) (Division of Research and Economic Development)
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>The Morgan Way
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The Morgan Way
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phrase, its value would spread. His belief was correct. Since then, varsity and non-varsity players as well as students outside of athletics have begun to embrace various iterations of The Morgan Way concept. President Wilson and MSU Vice President for Student Affairs Kevin Banks, Ed.D., visit all Morgan residence halls and hold fireside chats with students to explain Morgan’s history, promise and purpose and to define The Morgan Way as strict adherence to the University’s six core values. n
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Administrative Leadership A number of newly created administrative positions were filled with outstanding talent during Morgan’s last decade. Among the highlights: Developing the new School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan and serving as its founding dean in 2012 seemed to be the next logical steps in the career of DeWayne Wickham, a multiple award-winning journalism veteran. Wickham has developed at Morgan what is only the fifth school of journalism at an HBCU, leading it to accreditation by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) in 2020.
Maurice Taylor, Ph.D., J.D., took his current post as vice president for Academic Outreach and Engagement in 2012, during an impressive professional career at Morgan that began in 1991, when he was hired as the assistant dean of the University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He has since served in numerous leadership positions at MSU. In his current capacity, Dr. Taylor was one of the key architects of the University’s 2011–2021 Strategic Plan. Adebisi (“Bisi”) Oladipupo, Sc.D., graduate of the University of Ife, in Nigeria, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brought a wealth of experience to Morgan as chief information officer in 2014 and has served as vice president/chief information officer of Morgan’s Division of Information Technology since it was established in April 2018.
In July 2016, Kara M. Turner, Ph.D., became Morgan’s inaugural vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Success, and the Rev. Bernard Keels, D.Min., was appointed the first-ever dean of the Morgan State University Chapel. With Dr. Turner’s leadership, the University has experienced sustained increases in first- to second-year retention rates and new student enrollment, and a more than 10 percent decrease in the federal loan cohort default rate. Dr. Keels had served as director of the Chapel — the center of religious and spiritual life at Morgan — since joining the University in 2008. Others took the baton from previous administrative office holders to lead Morgan to new levels of achievement, among them: The University enhanced its fiscal strength and monetary stewardship in 2014 with the hiring of Sidney H. Evans Jr. as the new vice president for Finance and Management. Under his leadership as Morgan’s chief financial officer, the University has experienced consecutive years of A+ and A1 bond ratings from Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, respectively. Evans previously served as senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Howard University. Edward Scott, Ph.D., had more than 13 years of experience as an administrator and executive in his field, and a wealth of expertise in NCAA academic and compliance policies and protocols, when he was selected as Morgan’s director of Intercollegiate Athletics in Fall 2016. In only two and a half years, he was able to increase MSU scholar-athletes’ excellence in sports and the classroom, as the University faced no penalties for low Academic Progress Rate for any of its teams for the first time in the history of Morgan’s tenure in NCAA Division I.
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Earlier in 2016, Morgan announced the appointment of Hongtao Yu, Ph.D., a nationally renowned science educator and advocate for science diversity, as dean of the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (SCMNS). Dr. Yu came to Morgan from Jackson State University, an Historically Black Institution where the Department of Chemistry he chaired was ranked among the top 50 in the nation. His leadership of SCMNS has greatly increased Morgan’s impact on the production of minority scientists and mathematicians in the region. M’bare N’gom, Ph.D., a graduate of the University of Dakar and the Sorbonne, joined the MSU faculty in 1993. As a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies and French and Francophone Studies, he has greatly enhanced University programs such as those that examine Africans in the Diaspora. Since his appointment as dean of Morgan’s James H. Gilliam Jr. College of Liberal Arts in January 2017, he has worked effectively to support Morgan students’ intellectual growth and development and make them more competitive for graduate school and professional career opportunities. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Ph.D., selected as Morgan’s provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs in 2019, is an engineer, professor, researcher, author, coach and entrepreneur. The first in her family to attend college, and the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in industrial engineering at Texas A&M University, she is passionate about ensuring the success of students.
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Donna J. Howard, CFRE, also joined Morgan’s senior leadership team in 2019, as vice president for Institutional Advancement and executive director of Morgan State University Foundation, Inc. Howard came to MSU in December 2011 as director of the Office of Development, a position in which she was instrumental in the success of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary Campaign, which raised more than $254 million for the University. In her current posts, she is responsible for Morgan’s fundraising, marketing and development activities. Glenda Prime, Ph.D., a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was appointed dean of Morgan’s School of Education and Urban Studies in 2019. On MSU’s faculty since 1999, she previously chaired the University’s Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy, which became the leading producer of doctorates at Morgan under her guidance. Dr. Prime’s primary research interests revolve around AfricanAmerican students in urban science classrooms. She recently coauthored a book titled, “Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K–12 Learners,” with Morgan faculty as co-contributors. Selected in June 2020 after a national search, Oscar Barton Jr., Ph.D., began his tenure as dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering in August. Dr. Barton came to Morgan after serving as professor and inaugural chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University and, before that, as chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is leading the continued expansion of Morgan’s engineering school, which is a state and national leader in producing African-American engineers. Willie E. May, Ph.D. (profiled on page 32), took the helm at Morgan’s Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED) in 2018 and has steered the University’s research and innovation to greater recognition and success. MORGAN.EDU
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MSU’s National Rankings* Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded to African Americans 1st – Civil Engineering 1st – Construction Management 1st – Electrical Engineering 1st – Public Relations and Advertising 2nd – Architecture 2nd – Health Education 2nd – Hospitality Management 2nd – Transportation Systems 3rd – Industrial Engineering 3rd – Screen Writing and Animation
MSU’s Statewide Rankings* Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded to African Americans 1st – Actuarial Science 1st – Architecture and Related Services 1st – Civil Engineering 1st – Communication, Journalism and Related Programs 1st – Elementary Education 1st – Engineering Physics 1st – Family and Consumer Sciences 1st – Hospitality Management 1st – Journalism 1st – Social Work 1st – Transportation Systems
Master’s Degrees Awarded to African Americans 1st – Engineering 1st – Hospitality Management 1st – Landscape Architecture 2nd – Bioinformatics (tied) 2nd – Urban Transportation (tied)
1st – Bioenvironmental Sciences 1st – Community College Leadership 1st – Engineering (tied) 1st – History 2nd – Public Health (tied)
Source: IPEDS 2017–2018 Provisional Data * Partial listing
Master’s Degrees Awarded to African Americans 1st – African-American Studies 1st – Bioinformatics 1st – City and Regional Planning 1st – Landscape Architecture 1st – Mathematics
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Doctoral Research Degrees Awarded to African Americans 1st – Bioenvironmental Sciences 1st – Engineering 1st – Higher Education Administration 1st – Public Health 1st – Social Work
Source: IPEDS 2017–2018 Provisional Data * Partial listing
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Recent MSU Championships
Morgan State University competes in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), which is celebrating its 50th year of intercollegiate competition.
Morgan Softball 2018 MEAC Champion
Morgan Men‘s Tennis 2019 MEAC Champion
Morgan Women‘s Tennis 2018 MEAC Champion
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The President’s Leadership Circle
The President’s Leadership Circle (PLC) at Morgan State University, established in during the 2016-2017 academic year, comprises a group of distinctive students who forward the president’s vision for the University. The group represents and embodies the successful application of the core values of MSU — Excellence,
Integrity, Respect, Diversity, Innovation and Leadership — and serve as global ambassadors exemplifying all that should and can be emulated about the University. PLC Fellows serve with the president at a variety of campus and community functions. They promote pride in Morgan and draw on their
personal experiences to highlight the impact and benefits of a Morgan degree. PLC Fellows meet periodically with industry leaders in the Washington, D.C., and tri-state area, and hold monthly audiences with President Wilson and other University leaders.
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Leading the Way at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
An estimated 3.5 million spectators in New York City and 22.1 million television viewers nationwide watched the stellar performance of the Morgan State University Marching Band — a.k.a., the Magnificent Marching Machine — in the 93rd iteration of the Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade. The occasion, on Nov. 28, 2019, marked the band’s first-ever appearance in the event and was only the fifth time in the parade’s history that an Historically Black College or University was featured. Morgan’s band held the distinct honor of leading
the parade participants along the 2.7mile course through Manhattan and was the first marching band to perform on the famed Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade star.
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The MSU Choir, Morgan’s Musical Ambassadors
The Morgan State University Choir — comprising the 140-member University Choir and the 40-member Morgan Singers — is one of the nation’s most prestigious university choral ensembles. With a repertoire including classical, Gospel and contemporary popular music, the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance. During the past decade, the world-renowned choir traveled more than 114,000 miles to perform abroad, in Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, England, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.
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Morgan State University, a True National Treasure Centenary Biblical Institute was grateful for the gift that gave the AfricanAmerican higher educational institution a 90- by 140-foot lot for its sole building, at Fulton and Edmondson Avenue in west Baltimore, in 1879. But by 1917, the institute, renamed Morgan College, was bursting at the seams. Acquiring the Ivy Mill property in northeastern Baltimore that year, and winning a subsequent legal fight against white neighbors opposed to having a Black school in their midst, provided Morgan with space for its current campus.
One year short of a century later, in May 2016, the National Trust for Historic Preservation honored what it called “an important and often overlooked American story,” when it designated Morgan State University’s campus as a National Treasure. The varied built landscape of the University now features 20 structures that are eligible for listing on the National Register and includes buildings designed by pioneering and celebrated black architects such as Albert Cassell, Hilyard Robinson, Louis Fry and Leon Bridges. The National
Treasure designation, the only such honor for a college or university campus in the United States, acknowledges the partnership between Morgan and the National Trust to develop a preservation plan that stewards the many historic buildings on campus, while planning wisely for the University’s future.
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organ’s success in implementing initiatives to meet the goals of its 2011–21 Strategic Plan surprised even the most faithful of the University’s believers. By December 2018, so much progress had been made that President Wilson’s administration announced higher quantifiable targets for the institution through 2023, in areas including student housing, student enrollment, student diversity, graduation and retention rates, study abroad, research, capital improvements, capital additions, strategic partnerships, community engagement and athletics. But the road ahead, much like the one traveled during its 153-year history, will not be void of challenges and unforeseen hardships for Morgan, or for HBCUs in general. As we write these words, a pandemic is raging throughout the United States and around the planet, leaving in its wake a disproportionate number of casualties in communities that Morgan serves, and a severely
damaged national, state and local economy. Punctuating heightened anxieties, a lethal encounter with police captured on video and amplified on streams and screens has brought many thousands of protesters to the streets of the U.S. and other nations to denounce racism against African Americans and other people of color. Social and political change has suddenly shifted the already blistering pace of evolution of higher education into a higher gear. Remote instruction/ learning, campus housing, community engagement, research and many other aspects of our work are now ripe for innovation and transformation. The times are indeed challenging, but historians of Morgan can look back to the tenure of Morgan College President John Oakley Spencer, Ph.D., LL.D., and declare that the times are not without precedent. A little more than a century ago, Dr. Spencer managed a merger of the students from Morgan’s Lynchburg,
Virginia, campus with Morgan’s student body in Baltimore, after a suspicious fire had demolished the Lynchburg location, in 1917. The next year found him leading Morgan’s response to the great influenza pandemic of 1918, all the while fending off a racially motivated legal push to evict Morgan from its new campus, at the location where the University still stands today. Throughout our history, through times of crisis such as these, Morgan has been blessed to have outstanding leadership and an unbreakable commitment to mission that permeates the entire institution. The numbers prove that Morgan State University is stronger than ever, a fact that bodes well for our success as we envision Growing the Future, Leading the World in the decade to come. n
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Strategic Plan Targets, 2018–2023 Enhancing Student Success and Experiences Targets: improved student housing, increased retention rate, increased graduation rate (to 50 percent by 2025), additional student activities and amenities, and more study abroad opportunities
Improving Morgan’s Infrastructure Targets: addressing deferred maintenance to manage existing infrastructure; advancing capital improvements to expand Morgan’s growing Baltimore footprint, among them a state-of-the-art Health and Human Services building, a modern, leading-edge Science Complex, and a new facility to house a College of Osteopathic Medicine; and opening of a branch campus elevating the University’s physical presence beyond Morgan proper.
Enhancing Doctoral Research University Standing Targets: Beginning process of transition from a Carnegie R2 rating to R1, increased contracts and grant amounts, strengthened Computer Science Department, School of Engineering expansion, addition of new research centers and labs, creation of two to five start-up companies and strengthening Tech Transfer operation
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Expanding Community Engagement and Support Target: further collaboration along and surrounding the Hillen Road corridor Increasing Resources
Managing Student Enrollment
Advancing Athletics
Targets: increased State of Maryland support, increased alumni giving percentage (target 21 percent)
Targets: the growth of online degrees and online programs, increased number of international students, enhanced campus diversity, 9,000–10,000 student enrollment count and more in-state and out-of-state students
Targets: Academic Progress Rate improvement in all 13 sports and attainment of MEAC championships
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New Health and Human Services Building Projected to be completed in 2024, the New Health and Human Services Building will provide state-of-the-art classroom, lab, demonstration, office and community spaces for the School of Community Health and Policy, including Public Health, Pre-Professional Physical Therapy, Nutritional Sciences and the Prevention Sciences Research Center; the School of Social Work; the Medical Technology program; the Department of
Family and Consumer Sciences and the University Counseling Center. The building’s location at the northeast corner of Argonne Drive and Hillen Road, across from the recently developed West Campus and renovated Northwood Commons, forms the southern gateway and newest footprint to Morgan‘s sprawling campus. The facility will be located on the current site of the recently demolished Turner’s Armory.
Beyond Morgan Proper: Former Site of Lake Clifton High School In what would be a landmark deal, Morgan is among the finalists in the running to fully acquire and exchange proprietorship over the land comprising the former Lake Clifton High School from the City of Baltimore. The Clifton Park property is less than three miles from Morgan’s main campus and resides on approximately 45 acres. Acquiring such a vast parcel of land would mark a defining milestone in Morgan’s history and represent the University‘s largest acquisition of real property since moving to our current site more than 100 years ago.
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The Honorable Kweisi Mfume, Chairman Gen. Larry R. Ellis, U.S. Army (Ret.), Vice Chair Tracey L. Parker-Warren, Secretary Administrative Law Judge, Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings
Harold Carter Jr. Pastor, New Shiloh Baptist Church The Rev. Dr. Frances Murphy Draper Senior Pastor, Freedom Temple A.M.E. Zion Church Publisher, AFRO-American Newspapers Linda J. Gilliam, D.M.D. Former Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Gilliam Foundation
Shirley M. Malcom, Ph.D. Head, The Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science Stanley Nwakamma Student Regent Wayne Resnick President and CEO, Martin’s Caterers Shelonda D. Stokes President/CEO GreiBO Media Penelope Taylor Retired Vice Chair, MBNA America Bank, N.A. Marquis T. Walker, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Winston A. Wilkinson Chief of Staff, Maryland Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives
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