Morgan State University Newsroom Morgan State University
Significant demographic obstacles stand in the path of the state’s achieving its goal of ensuring that 55 percent of its population has a two-year post-secondary degree or higher by 2025.
The baby boom “echo” — a primarily white phenomenon that resulted in a temporary increase in high school graduates beginning in 1995 — is over. The number of white graduates is now declining steadily and will continue to do so for some time to come.
