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Legislation passed by the Senate Tuesday could lead to the dismantling of Towson University's MBA program, approved in 2005 despite concerns that it was unnecessarily duplicating Morgan State University's MBA program.
The bill, Senate Bill 29, passed 27-19 and would allow judicial review in circuit court of decisions made by the Maryland Higher Education Commission regarding the duplication of academic programs. The bill also contains a provision aimed specifically at Towson's joint MBA with the University of Baltimore that would require the commission to review its 2005 decision to allow that program. The commission made that decision after Morgan requested a review of the program.See the full content of this document
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Bill Could Kill Towson Mba, Keep Morgan's
Sponsors of the bill argued that the Towson program unnecessarily duplicates Morgan's and violates state and federal civil rights-era laws that prohibit public institutions from d...
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