By Ellie Wolfe Five years ago, David Wilson had a $50 million idea. The president of Morgan State University announced in 2020 that the historically Black college in Northeast Baltimore would make history in the next decade: It would earn a Research One Carnegie classification. Only one other HBCU, Washington, D.C.’s Howard University, has earned that title, which requires a university to spend at least $50 million annually in research and development and award its graduate students at least 70 research doctorates each year. In 2020, Morgan State had $17.2 million in research expenditures and graduated 71 doctoral students. By 2030, Wilson said, they
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