Morris Brown College
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Historic Fountain Hall, 1979
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Former names
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Morris Brown Colored College |
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| Motto | To GOD and Truth |
| Type | Private, HBCU |
| Established | 1881 |
| Affiliation | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| President | Dr. Stanley J. Pritchett |
| Address |
643 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Atlanta, Georgia 30314, Atlanta, Georgia, United States 33°45′17″N 84°24′32″W / 33.754778°N 84.408931°WCoordinates: 33°45′17″N 84°24′32″W / 33.754778°N 84.408931°W |
| Campus | 21-acre (84,984.0 m2), Urban |
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Purple and Black |
| Sports | Discontinued 2003 |
| Nickname | MBC |
| Mascot | Wolverines and Lady Wolverines |
| Website | www.morrisbrown.edu |
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Morris Brown College (MBC) is a private, coed, liberal arts college located in the Vine City community of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is a historically black college affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Although Morris Brown College is no longer a member of the Atlanta University Center Consortium, it is located within the Atlanta University Center (a district designated by the Atlanta City Council).
In 2002 it lost its accreditation and federal funding due to a financial mismanagement scandal during the 1998–2002 tenure of Dolores Cross as school president. The United Negro College Fund also terminated its support for the college.
In August 2012, Morris Brown filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an attempt to prevent foreclosure and sale of the school at auction. In October 2015, the campus was still open, but dependent upon volunteer faculty and staff.
Morris Brown offered baccalaureate degrees in Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (for traditional students) and Organizational Management and Leadership (for Adult Degree matriculants).
As of 2011[update], Morris Brown is in a "Self-Study" phase of the accreditation process with Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools and is looking to reapply in October 2012. Until 2003, Morris Brown was accredited by a regional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Morris Brown was more than $23 million in debt and was on probation in 2001 with SACS for shoddy bookkeeping and a shortage of professors with advanced degrees. In December 2002, SACS revoked Morris Brown's accreditation. Almost eight years later, the college settled its nearly $10 million debt with the Department of Education.
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