University of Baltimore history

He studied law at the University of Baltimore and began a law practice in a Baltimore suburb in 1947.

Other changes in the following decades included the construction of the Langsdale Library in 1966, according to an administrative history of the school.

During the presidency of Thomas Granville Pullen, the university became fully accredited in 1971 with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and built the Langsdale Library.

Agnew’s downfall began in the summer of 1973, when he was investigated in connection with accusations of extortion, bribery, and income-tax violations relating chiefly to his tenure as governor of Maryland.

In 1975, UBalt became a public institution and an upper-division university and began eliminating its freshman and sophomore classes, inter-collegiate athletics and other extracurricular activities such as the yearbook.

Agnew’s Go Quietly…or Else (1980) is a defense of his political career and an attack on officials of the Nixon administration.

In 1982, the business school became the Robert G. Merrick School of Business and the liberal arts college became the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts.

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.

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 were to be admitted starting in the fall of 2006.

In 2009, the event Gay Expectations Too as part of the University of Baltimore live performance series Spotlight UB, helped raise US$2,400 for the Baltimore-based non-profit food charity Moveable Feast.

United States News & World Report ranks Merrick School of Business among best undergraduate business programs in their 2011 rankings.

United States News & World Report ranks the MBA among best part-time M.B.A. programs in their 2012 rankings.

In May 2014, it was announced that Kurt L. Schmoke would become the university's eighth president, succeeding retired president Robert Bogomolny.

In early 2015, it was announced that the university would that summer host the Bridges Conference, billed by organizers as one of the world's largest art/math interdisciplinary gatherings.

United States News & World Report awards the undergraduate business program as one of the best in their 2016 rankings.

Through the LibGuide, you can learn more about the 100th anniversary of the League of Women Voters of Baltimore City and the 2020 centennial of the 19th amendment in the United States with a link to the digital exhibit: The League of Women Voters: The Legacy of Suffrage.