A new state-of-the-art building is being constructed at Maryland’s oldest HBCU—Morgan State University—and will be named after one of its most successful alumni—businessman and media mogul Earl G. Graves Sr.
The construction of the $80 million facility will house the university’s School of Business and Management, which was renamed in 2005 after the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine who donated a $1 million gift to advance business education at the college located in Baltimore.
With more than 50 full-time faculty members and an enrollment of about 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students, the School of Business has outgrown its current facility, said Morgan’s president, Dr. David Wilson.
“We are super excited about the construction of this building,” Wilson said in an interview with Diverse.
According to Wilson, the 140,000-square-foot Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management will include a lecture hall and classrooms, a large kitchen for hospitality classes, a simulated Wall Street trading floor and 10 hotel-style rooms.
The Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management currently offers degrees in accounting, finance, business administration, marketing, human resource management, hospitality management, and information science and systems. The school also offers a master’s and Ph.D. in Business Administration.
