Editing Morgan State University (section)

==Academics==
[[File:Morgan State University - Holmes Hall.JPG|thumb|The historic Holmes Hall]]

Morgan State awards baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate [[academic degree|degree]]s. 

Morgan has educated over 100 [[Fulbright]] scholars, the most of any HBCU. Morgan is also first among HBCUs in the number of Fulbright-related grants awarded to students, faculty, and administrators. It is one of the 19 schools included on the inaugural Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leaders list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.morgan.edu/fulbright-leaders/ |title=Morgan State University Tops Fulbright Program's 'HBCU Institutional Leaders' |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=July 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709122718/https://news.morgan.edu/fulbright-leaders/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since instituting the Fulbright program, Morgan State University has trained 144 Fulbright awardees initiating international studies in 43 different countries. Moreover, 51 MSU professors or administrators (none of whom were Morgan graduates) have earned 73 "Senior Fulbright" awards to 42 countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fulbright.org/2019/05/30/featured-institution-morgan-state-university/#:~:text=Since%20instituting%20the%20Fulbright%20program%2C%20Morgan%20State%20University,earned%2073%20%E2%80%9CSenior%20Fulbright%E2%80%9D%20awards%20to%2042%20countries. |title=Featured Institution: Morgan State University |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=July 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709122718/https://fulbright.org/2019/05/30/featured-institution-morgan-state-university/#:~:text=Since%20instituting%20the%20Fulbright%20program%2C%20Morgan%20State%20University,earned%2073%20%E2%80%9CSenior%20Fulbright%E2%80%9D%20awards%20to%2042%20countries. |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Schools and colleges===
The university operates twelve colleges, schools, and institutes. <!-- Students may choose from ? accredited undergraduate baccalaureate and ? graduate master's degree programs offered through the university's colleges. -->

* James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts
* School of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
* Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering
* School of Architecture and Planning
* Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management
* School of Community Health and Policy
* School of Global Journalism and Communication
* School of Education & Urban Studies
* School of Social Work
* College of Interdisciplinary and Continuing Studies
* Dr. Clara Adams [[Honors College]]
* School of Graduate Studies
* Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)

====James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts====
The College of Liberal Arts offers degree programs in the arts, history, humanities, military and social sciences, and hosts two museums: the James E. Lewis Museum of Art and [[Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson|Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum]]. The James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA) is the cultural extension of Morgan State University's Fine Arts academic program. The Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum illustrates the last recorded lynching in Maryland.

====School of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences====
The School of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences offers undergraduate majors and minors as well as graduate degree programs in the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, and computing disciplines. The chemistry program is approved by the [[American Chemical Society]] (ACS). The medical laboratory science program is accredited by the [[National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences]] ([[NAACLS]]) and the [[American Society for Clinical Pathology]] (ASCP).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://naacls.org/NAACLS/media/BoDAward/0187BodAward.pdf |title=NAACLS BOARD OF DIRECTORS' ACCREDITATION AWARD |website=National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences |date=August 15, 2024 }}</ref> The actuarial science program is approved by the [[Society of Actuaries]] (SOA). It also hosts the university's environmental and aquatic research laboratory - PEARL.

====Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering====
[[File:Clarence Mitchell Building, Morgan State University (16-10-2007).jpg|right|thumb|[[Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.]] School of Engineering building]]

The School of Engineering offers [[Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology]] (ABET) accredited degrees in engineering and admitted its first class starting in 1984. The first graduates received degrees in 1988. [[Eugene M. DeLoatch]] (retired 2016) was the first Dean of the School of Engineering, having previously been Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at [[Howard University]]. He was succeeded by [[Michael G. Spencer]] who was previously a professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University. By 1991, the construction of the {{cvt|35000|sqft|m2}} [[Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.]] School of Engineering building was completed, and the facility included sixteen teaching laboratories and five research laboratories. The [[William Donald Schaefer]] Building is a {{cvt|40000|sqft|m2}} addition to the Engineering School and was completed in April 1998. The facility provided instructional laboratories, classrooms, a student lounge, research laboratories and a {{cvt|2200|sqft|m2}} library annex.

In 2015 Morgan State University's School of Engineering graduates provided more than two-thirds of the state's African-American Civil Engineers, 60 percent of the African-American Electrical Engineers, 80 percent of the African-American Telecommunications specialists, more than one-third of the African-American Mathematicians, and all of Maryland's Industrial Engineers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. – School of Engineering |url=http://www.soe.morgan.edu/dean/general_information.html |publisher=Morgan State University – School of Engineering |access-date=April 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150427133742/http://www.soe.morgan.edu/dean/general_information.html |archive-date=April 27, 2015 }}</ref>

====School of Architecture and Planning (S+AP)====
In 1997, the school became the only [[HBCU]] to establish accredited architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning programs. A plan was announced by the university president, [[Earl S. Richardson|Earl Richardson]] in 2005, for the program to establish school status and it was designated as the School of Architecture and Planning (S+AP) in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our History |url=http://www.morgan.edu/school_of_architecture__planning/about_us/our_history.html |access-date=July 30, 2020 |website=Morgan State University |language=en |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513123248/https://www.morgan.edu/school_of_architecture__planning/about_us/our_history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Construction began in 2010 to house all of the related majors. The Center of Built and Environmental Studies (CBEIS) was designed by in association with the [[Phil Freelon|Freelon Group]]. The School of Architecture and Planning granted its first interior design degree in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Justin |title=Morgan launches first interior design baccalaureate program in Maryland |url=https://themsuspokesman.com/8341/campus-news/morgan-launches-first-interior-design-baccalaureate-program-in-maryland/ |access-date=July 30, 2020 |website=The Spokesman |date=October 19, 2018 |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216035914/https://themsuspokesman.com/8341/campus-news/morgan-launches-first-interior-design-baccalaureate-program-in-maryland/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The school offers bachelor's through doctoral programs in architecture and is accredited by the [[National Architectural Accrediting Board]] (NAAB) and [[National Council of Architectural Registration Boards]] (NCARB).

====Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management====
The Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management (GSBM) is named in honor of alumnus [[Earl G. Graves, Sr.]] and is housed in the Graves School of Business and Management building, which was opened for the Fall Semester 2015 at the western edge of the campus. It contains classrooms, laboratories, and office buildings with rooms for hospitality management students to operate. The GSBM offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, [[Master of Business Administration]], and PhD degree programs. These programs are accredited by The [[Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business]] (AACSB).

====School of Community Health and Policy====
The School of Community Health and Policy offers an [[American Association of Colleges of Nursing]] (AACN) accredited program in nursing, degree programs in nutritional sciences and health education, and graduate programs leading to the Master of Public Health, Master of Science, and Doctor of Public Health (DPH).

The university's nursing class of 2018 scored a perfect pass rate, the first perfect score for an entire nursing program class at Morgan, and the only four-year nursing program in Maryland to achieve a 100 percent pass rate that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/morgan-state-university-nursing-perfect-pass-rate/ |title=Morgan State University Nursing Class Scores Perfect Pass Rate |website=[[CBS News]] |date=November 29, 2018 |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811121326/https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/morgan-state-university-nursing-perfect-pass-rate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====School of Global Journalism and Communication====
Established in 2013, Morgan's School of Global Journalism and Communication is one of only two Maryland-based universities with an internationally accredited journalism school. The School of Global Journalism and Communication degree programs include journalism, strategic communications, and multiplatform production. The programs are accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC), as recognized by the [[Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication]] (AEJMC).

The school is also the host of the student-run newspaper ''The Spokesman'', the university's radio station WMUR Baltimore, and its television network BEAR-TV.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Campus Publications |url=https://www.morgan.edu/news/publications |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.morgan.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=WMUR Radio |url=https://www.morgan.edu/multiplatform-production/wmur-radio |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.morgan.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BEAR-TV |url=https://www.morgan.edu/multiplatform-production/bear-tv |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.morgan.edu |language=en}}</ref> 

===Library===
[[File:Morgan State University - EARL S. RICHARDSON LIBRARY.JPG|thumb|right|Earl S. Richardson Library]]
The Earl S. Richardson Library's is the main academic information resource center on the campus. Constructed in 2008, the building covers approximately 222,517 square feet. The library's holding constitutes over 500,000 volumes, and access to over 1 million e-books and 5,000 periodical titles. There are 167 online databases that are subscribed to the Library. Reading and studying spaces are provided with wired and wireless access to databases for research.<ref name="morgan.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.morgan.edu/library |title=Earl S. Richardson Library |website=Morgan State University |access-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620074144/https://www.morgan.edu/library |url-status=live }}</ref> One such collection in the volumes includes books on Africa, with an emphasis on [[sub-Saharan Africa]]. The African-American collection includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as [[Emmett Jay Scott]], secretary to [[Booker T. Washington]]. The Forbush Collection is composed of materials associated with the [[Quakers]] and slavery. The [[Martin David Jenkins|Martin D. Jenkins]] Collection was acquired in 1980.<ref name="morgan.edu"/>