Morehouse College

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• Morehouse College is the nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for African-American men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor’s degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world.
• Morehouse operates under the semester system offering the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. The College offers 26 majors in three academic divisions: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, and Business and Economics, and a dual-degree program in engineering with the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Campus facilities includes dormitories, the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, and classroom buildings, Archer Hall Student Center and Chivers-Lane Dining Hall, and the Davidson House-Center for Excellence, the Technology Connector, the Morehouse Leadership Center, a five hundred car parking deck, and campus bookstore.
• Morehouse is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Morehouse is one of only four liberal arts colleges in the nation with AACSB International accreditation and a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
• Profile last updated: 04/21/2010.

In the News:

• Noted Psychologist Announces Television Series Addressing The Apparent Relationship Between Mind and Spirit (BlackNews.com)
  posted on July 27, 2011 at 09:03:20 am
  Atlanta, GA (July 27, 2011) -- Dr. Allen Carter, Board Certified Clinical Psychologist and Professor at Morehouse College introduces to the public a series of television programs that raise the most basic question of life: "Who Am I?" This question of "Who Am I?" which is also the title of the program asks what is the essence of God and man and if there is a relationship between the two.
• Northwestern Mutual Foundation Sponsors Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Concert (Business Wire)
  posted on July 25, 2011 at 06:11:46 pm
  MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Northwestern Mutual Foundation has been named the presenting sponsor of Morehouse College’s Memorial Concert and Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. The concert, which will take place at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, August 28 at 7 p.m., is the culminating event of the dedication weekend celebrating Dr. King. “The entire MLK memorial weekend is dedicated to ...
• Grand Reopening for African American Civil War Museum (The Atlanta Post)
  posted on July 18, 2011 at 01:45:27 pm
  (Washington Post) – Back in 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Holly Springs, he met a man who turned out to be the descendant of an African American Civil War veteran. “I found it ironic that [...]
• Emmy Award-Winning Actor Keith David Set to Host Acting Workshop at Morehouse College (PitchEngine)
  posted on July 6, 2011 at 08:28:06 pm
  Los Angeles, CA - Emmy award-winning master actor, voice over artist and producer Keith David will debut his first workshop for aspiring actors entitled So, You Want to Be an Actor at the historical Morehouse. The anticipated one day event will take place on Saturday, July 30, 2011, from 10am-6pm at the Leadership Conference Center at Morehouse College, Bank of America Auditorium, 830...
• Local student graduates from Morehouse College (Americus Times-Recorder)
  posted on June 30, 2011 at 12:55:24 am
  Submitted Photo Jamal M. Young was congratulated by Bill Cosby at Morehouse College’s spring commencement May 15. Young graduated with a bachelor of science degree in computer science with honors cum laude.

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