MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Prominent Morehouse alumni include: Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General; Shelton “Spike” Lee, Acad- emy Award-winning American filmmaker; Maynard H. Jackson, the first African American mayor of Atlanta; Jeh Johnson, former U.S. Secretary of Home¬land Secu- rity; Louis W. Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Bakari Sellers, attorney and CNN political analyst; Randall Woodfin, elected as the young- est mayor of Birmingham in 120 years; and U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator from Georgia. Our Vision The premier liberal arts college in the world attracting and educating Black men and other men who share the values of Morehouse College. Our Mission The mission of Morehouse College is to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and services. Our Values To respect and honor the holistic development of trust- worthy young men, who act with compassion, honesty, and integrity as they build community, holding them- selves and each other accountable to ensure a spiritual path that reflects the necessity of civility within this abid- ing brotherhood.
Morehouse College is the largest men’s college in the United States and the only college with a mission to edu- cate Black men. A private, liberal arts institution founded in 1867, More- house is the nation’s top producer of Black men who go on to receive doctorates, the top producer of Rhodes Schol- ars among HBCUs, and was named to the list of U.S. in- stitutions that produced the most Fulbright Scholars in 2019-2020. Morehouse has the top-rated core curriculum of any HBCU nationwide, according to the American Coun¬cil of Trustees and Alumni, and Academic Influ- ence named Morehouse one of the two most influential HBCUs of the 21st century. Morehouse is one of the top five HBCUs nationally, ac- cording to U.S. News and World Report, which also ranked the College among the top 20 liberal arts col- leges nationally in terms of social mobility and the top 50 nationally in terms of innovation. Morehouse is the #1 producer of Black male graduates in Georgia in biology, business, engineering, English, foreign languag-es, his- tory, mathematics, performing arts, philosophy, physical sciences, religion, and visual arts, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. As the epicenter for thought leadership on civil rights, Morehouse is committed to helping the nation address the inequities caused by insti- tutional racism, which has created social and economic disparities for people of African descent.
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