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University of Baltimore
Established	1925
Type	Public
President	Robert L. Bogomolny
Faculty	151
Undergraduates	2,096
Postgraduates	1,740
Location	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.ubalt.edu

The University of Baltimore (UB), located in Baltimore, Maryland, is part of the University System of Maryland.

Contents 1 Background 2 Lower Division Initiative 3 Notable Alumni 4 External links

Founded in 1925 by a group of Baltimore business professionals, UB sought to provide educational opportunities for working men and women. In the 1970s UB merged with Eastern College, Mount Vernon School of Law, and Baltimore College of Commerce. In 1975 UB became an "upper division academic institution", offering only third and fourth year undergraduate and post-graduate course work. At the same time, ownership was assumed by the State of Maryland. In 1988, the state merged UB into the new statewide university system, the University of Maryland System, which was later renamed University System of Maryland.

The University is composed of three schools:

• School of Law
• Robert G. Merrick School of Business
• Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts

The university's campus is in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon neighborhood, close to downtown. The University of Baltimore/Mt. Royal station on the Baltimore Light Rail system is at the northwest edge of the campus, and Penn Station, with Light Rail, Amtrak, and MARC service, is just to the north.

The Lower Division Initiative is a program that began in 2005 to extend the University of Baltimore's current position to once again offer the first two years of the baccalaureate degree.

In April 2005 the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents approved plans that would allow UB to start accepting freshmen and sophomores. Under the original plan, freshmen and sophomore would be admitted starting in the fall of 2006.

In a unanimous vote that took place on February 15, 2006, the Maryland Higher Education Commission approved a revised mission statement submitted by the University of Baltimore, thus enabling the University to return to four-year undergraduate status. This is the same initiative that already received approval from the Board of Regents in April of the prior year; however, the plan was revised slightly and now calls for freshmen to be admitted in the fall of 2007.

The University states that this new program will better reflect the current focus, and will be designed to prepare students in business, pre-law, technology, public affairs, and applied liberal arts. The Unviversity says that it will be offering Freshman "free" tuition for their first year. This was offered because of a donation made by an anonymous private donor.

During the beginning of 2006 , the University opened a brand new student center as well as changing the colors to blue and green , and the "UB" logo. They also have a new slogan called "Knowledge that works".

• Spiro Agnew- Vice President of the United States 69-73, Governor of Maryland 67-69
• Dale Anderson- Baltimore County Executive, 66-74; House of Delegates District 8, 83-87
• Peter Angelos- Owner of the Baltimore Orioles
• Carville Benson, (1893), U.S. Congressman for Maryland 2nd District, 1918-1921.
• William P. Bolton, (1909), Congressman for Maryland 2nd District, 1949-1951.
• Joseph Curran- (1959), Maryland Attorney General, 87-present; Lt. Governor 83-87 under Harry Hughes.
• Catherine Curran O'Malley, (1991), Associate Judge for the First District Court of Maryland, wife of current Governor of Maryland and former Baltimore Mayor, Martin O'Malley.
• J. B. Jennings, Maryland Delegate for District 7.
• Jeffrey Kluger - Senior Writer for TIME Magazine, and author of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" was based.
• Pat McDonough, Maryland delegate.
• Richard Meehan, Mayor of Ocean City, MD, 2006-present.
• Bishop Robinson, former Police Commissioner of Baltimore, 1984 - 1987.
• Dutch Ruppersberger- Congressman 2^nd district, 02-present, Baltimore County Executive, 94-02.
• William Donald Schaefer- 1942 (Mayor of Baltimore 71-85, Governor of Maryland 87-95, State Comptroller 99-2007)
• Byron L. Warnken Professor of Law at University of Baltimore and widely considered the foremost authority on appellate criminal law in the State of Maryland.

• Official Site
• University System of Maryland Profile
• MHEC Approves UB's Plan to Become Four-Year University

University System of Maryland
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