FACULTY HANDBOOK July 2009 - Morgan State University

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PAGE 14 * Morgan State University Faculty Handbook1.1 MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICSFounded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute by the BaltimoreConference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the institution’s original mission was to trainyoung men for the ministry. It subsequently broadened its mission to educate both men andwomen as teachers. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the ReverendLyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees, who donated land to thecollege.Morgan awarded its first baccalaureate degree to George W. F. McMechen in1895. McMechen subsequently obtained a law degree from Yale and eventually returned toBaltimore, where he became an important civic leader and a strong financial supporter of theCollege.Morgan remained a private institution until 1939. In that year, the state ofMaryland purchased the institution in response to a study by a state commission, which foundthat Maryland needed to provide more opportunities for its black citizens. By this time theCollege had become a relatively comprehensive institution. Until the mid- 1960s, when thestate’s teachers colleges began their transition to liberal arts campuses, Morgan and theUniversity of Maryland College Park were the only two public campuses in the state withcomprehensive missions.In the mid-1960s, the Middle States Association cited Morgan as a modelliberal arts campus. This was a period of dramatic growth for the campus. In the early 1970s,the federal government began to pressure the southern states that had formerly maintaineddesegregated higher education systems to increase the extent of desegregation at their publiccampuses. This created a significant level of competition for Morgan and other historicallyblack institutions for African American enrollments, the primary constituency of thesecampuses. Because major campuses were much more attractive and better financed, themandate for increased enrollments at these campuses had a substantial negative impact onenrollments at Morgan and other HBCUs. By 1972, the campus had reached a historicenrollment high of 6,300. While this period was one of prosperity in some respects forMorgan, it also was a period during which two other developing trends were combining tocreate severe future problems for the campus.In 1975, the State Legislature designated Morgan as a public urbanuniversity, gave it the authority to offer doctorates, and enabled the institution to have its owngoverning board. In 1988, Maryland reorganized its higher education structure. Thecampuses in the state college system became part of the University System of Maryland.However, Morgan and St. Mary’s College of Maryland were the only public baccalaureategrantinginstitutions authorized to have their own governing boards. The 1988 legislationalso strengthened Morgan’s authority to offer advanced programs and reaffirmed the campusas Maryland’s Public Urban University. The university has a history of serving individualsfrom underrepresented minority backgrounds and, consequently, it gives priority toaddressing the needs of the populations of the urban community. Morgan’s mission is toserve a multi-ethnic student body and to help ensure that the benefits of higher education areenjoyed by a broad segment of the population. To accomplish this, the University offers acomprehensive program of study at the undergraduate level and degrees in selected fields atthe master’s and doctoral levels.MSU is also one of the nation’s premiere historically black institutions ofhigher education and one of the few offering a comprehensive range of programs, awardingdegrees through the doctorate and having significant programs of research and publicservices. The University’s current enrollment consists of approximately 7,100 students witha racial composition of 90% black, 2.5% white, 0.9% Asian, 0.7% Hispanic, 0.2% American
PAGE 15 * Morgan State University Faculty HandbookIndian and 6% other/unknown. Of the students enrolled at Morgan, about 35% are from allfifty states and numerous foreign countries. Morgan is also one of the leading institutionsnationally in the number of applications received from African American high schoolgraduates. The largest sources of its enrollments outside of Maryland are from New York,New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.The Academic Division at the University consists of the College of LiberalArts, the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (restructured from theCollege of Arts and Sciences in 1998), the Earl G. Graves School of Business andManagement, the School of Education and Urban Studies, the Clarence Mitchell School ofEngineering, the School of Community Health and Policy (established in 2005), the Schoolof Architecture and Planning (2008), the School of Graduate Studies which includes theCenter for Continuing Studies, the Institute for Urban Research and the Center for CivilRights in Higher Education (established in 2008), and the Center for Prevention Sciences andSubstance Abuse, and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions, provides community –based programs that address intervention measures and early detections protocols of chronicdiseases in urban communities; as well as several academic support programs that includesthe Retention Center, Center for Academic Student Achievement (CASA), Honors Program,Transfer Center, the Academic Recovery Program, Admissions and Recruitment (as of 2008),Records and Registration and the Library.Students enrolled at the University may pursue undergraduate studies in over45 majors; graduate studies in over 32 areas of concentration leading to the degrees: Masterof Arts, Master of Science as well as Master of Architecture, Master of Arts in Teaching,Master of Business Administration, Master of City and Regional Planning, Master ofEngineering, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Public Health, Master of Sciencein Bio-informatics and Master of Social Work, Master of Science in Higher Education andMaster of Science in Nursing, and fifteen (15) doctoral programs in areas as: UrbanEducational Leadership, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Engineering,Community College Leadership and Public Health; and Ph.D. degrees in BioenvironmentalScience, Business Administration, Higher Education, English, History, Psychometrics, SocialWork, Nursing and Industrial and Computational Mathematics.From 1998-to the present, the University has experienced tremendousdevelopment. Among the goals that have been set and accomplished (or have progressedsignificantly) are:(1) The initiation of the following doctoral programs: Morgan has now grown in the numberof doctorates and professional degrees it awards,(2) The enhancement of the physical facilities of the campus: Over the past ten yearsMorgan’s enrollment has generally been on an upward incline. Thus, to accommodate theincreasing number of students and to provide state-of-the-art teaching facilities and modernlearning environments for these students, Morgan has built or significantly renovated severalbuildings on campus. Included among these are the new 78,000 gross square feet (GSF)Communications Center (Fall 2006), a new 221,517 GSF library (opened in February 2008),a new 130,000 GSF Student Center (opened Fall 2006), a new parking garage (opened 2006),and the 48,500 GSF Richard N. Dixon Science Research Center, home of the School ofComputer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and research laboratories of the BiomedicalResearch Center (opened in 2003), and the 140,500 GSF Carl Murphy Fine Arts Center witha 2000 seat James H. and Louise Hayley Gilliam Concert Hall (opened 2001).In addition to building new facilities, MSU has expanded its capabilities toteach and do research in the critical area of Environmental Science by acquiring the Estuarine
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