Morehouse College
Studying the Case of an African-American College
Morehouse College was officially founded Augusta Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1867. It has a relatively unique and rich heritage serving some of the brightest minds in the black community since its founding. The college has many notable graduates including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. Despite this rich legacy, the college in its present state has many operational challenges. The size of the student body in 1997-1998 was roughly three thousand students who all paid roughly $18,000 in tuition and fees. The faculty was composed of over two hundred instructors; 165 of whom were full-time and a majority of whom held their doctorate degrees. One of the more popular degree programs was the Business Management and Administrative Services program.
Since the computer began to become developed at an exponential rate since the 1980s, many of the business operations began to incorporate computers in data management. This trend made it crucial for colleges to follow suit in education and training. Morehouse College chartered a chair in the mid-1990s to 1) evaluate the effectiveness of the present computing environment for both administrative and academic computing, 2) recommend
An environment that would best meet the college's computing needs, and 3) develop a strategic
Plan for transitioning from present to future computing environments (Shavers, 1999). This committee set the foundation for the schools modern technological platform.
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