The college preparatory experience aims to address both hard and soft skills that will enhance college admissions and future college success.

The project’s curricular component produces a body of knowledge about architecture and the affects it has on the environment by studying redlining and gentrification around the city.

The six-week summer program would be the most extensive pre-college offering to date at Morgan and meet one of the University’s longstanding goals. It draws on the experience of several existing and past programs.

The pipeline for students entering the Architecture program will be enhanced by the project’s hands-on, intensive approach as well as by the outreach around this project in both directions—to feeder schools and to local professional organizations, including the 1,300-member AIA Baltimore chapter and four to six area high schools that offer regular Architecture or Architectural Technology curricular.

Through this program, BCYADC will participate in a historic effort to call attention to African American places and sites of former redlining, disinvestment, and gentrification. Blind spots within the city will be brought to light rather than being overlooked and erased and these places will be recognized and treasured, which holds the potential for positive change.

The BCYADC will provide a pipeline of success, starting from high school, matriculating to college (Junior Architect) and culminating in (Architect in Training) professional training and apprentice activities required to become certified as Architects in the State of Maryland.