Morgan State University has won its second commission ruling against Towson University in the PWI’s repeated “unreasonable duplication” of a similar program at the HBCU.
On Nov. 20, the Maryland Higher Education Commission ruled that Towson cannot create a doctoral program in sustainability and environmental change as it closely mirrors an existing program at Morgan State University, The Baltimore Banner reports. Eight commission members voted to uphold a prior ruling on the issue made by Sanjay Rai, the state’s secretary of higher education.
“The program Towson is proposing is unreasonably and unnecessarily duplicative of the Morgan program,” Morgan State President David Wilson said at the meeting. “Morgan State University takes very, very seriously the whole notion of program duplication.”…