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News Roundup

Morgan State Completes $250M Sesquicentennial Anniversary Campaign

Morgan State University (MSU) completed its largest ever fundraising effort, raising more than $250 million as part of the university’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary Campaign. The Anniversary Campaign funds will be used to advance teaching and research, increase the university’s endowment, develop academic programs, provide student scholarships and further community engagement, according to MSU. More than 15,000 […]

October 4, 2018

African-American

Professor Stacey Patton: Helping Students Purchase Textbooks

Back-to-school season is in full swing and Morgan State University (MSU) professor and award-winning journalist Dr. Stacey Patton has already raised more than $10,000 to help financially-strapped students purchase their textbooks this semester.

August 31, 2018

Leadership & Policy

Building Student Satisfaction, Presidents Move in, Dine in and Workout

College presidents around the country are gearing up to welcome their students to campus in innovative ways this fall. For many institutional leaders, opportunities to engage with students have increasingly become a priority to improve customer service for students and their families.

August 9, 2018

MSIs

Report Explores Presidential Engagement at Minority Serving Institutions

A new report out this week from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) at the University of Pennsylvania outlines several strategies to improve presidential engagement at minority serving institutions.

July 25, 2018

LGBTQ+

HBCU Leaders Push to Make their Campuses More LGBTQ Inclusive

Creating better inclusion for LGBTQ students at historically Black colleges and universities was the focus of the second annual “Historically Black Colleges and Universities Leadership Summit on LGBTQ Inclusion for University Presidents and Senior Executives” hosted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation

July 11, 2018

HBCUs

Report: Morgan State Gives Maryland’s Economy a Major Boost

Morgan State University contributes $990 million annually to Maryland’s economy and $574 million within the city of Baltimore. according to a new study. Additionally, the university supports more than 6,500 jobs across the state and almost 4,000 of those jobs are located within Baltimore.

June 19, 2018

MSIs

Gathering Designed to Foster Mentorship Among MSI Leaders

In an effort to create a pipeline of college leaders ready to one day become a college president, the Penn Center for minority serving institutions hosted a three-day symposium for its cohort of aspiring leaders this weekend in Philadelphia, bringing together both rising administrators and highly experienced college and university presidents to serve as their mentors

November 19, 2017

Students

Lumina Foundation Awards $716,700 Grant to Morgan State

In an effort to bolster retention and increase graduation rates at Black colleges, the Lumina Foundation has awarded a grant of $716,700 to Morgan State University to implement initiatives that will increase completion rates and improve outcomes for historically underserved students. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Student Success Project, is a three-year $1.5 […]

January 19, 2017

African-American

Couple Donates Largest Individual Gift to Morgan State

A Las Vegas couple is expected to make the largest individual contribution to Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University headquartered in Baltimore.

February 9, 2016