Office of the Vice President for University Operations
Maurice C. Taylor, Ph.D., J.D.
The Office of the Vice President for University Operations (VPUO) is responsible for coordinating the implementation of the Gateway to Opportunity Program (GO Program) for prospective students who show academic promise and special abilities such that Morgan seeks to encourage their admission by giving them the option of residing on campus and granting them access to campus while being enrolled at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) and being taught by BCCC faculty on Morgan's campus.
The VPUO oversees several memoranda of understanding (MOUs) establishing partnerships between Morgan and PHS Group Inc., (a project management firm) and between Morgan and an alliance of other historically black colleges and universities to develop Professional Science Master's degrees. The VPUO is the architect of the University's identity theft "Red Flag" rules and the University's Influenza and Pandemic Disease Preparation Plan. The VPUO also serves a liaison to meetings of the Maryland Higher Education Commission's (MHEC) and to the University System of Maryland.
Dr. Taylor is the former Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. He is the immediate past Chair of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Board and the former Chair of the GRE Board's Minority Graduate Education Committee. Dr. Taylor is the Secretary for the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) and the past President of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS). Dr. Taylor Chairs the Education and Student Life Committee of the Board of Trustees of Juniata College. Dr. Taylor earned the master's (MA) and doctorate (Ph.D.) degree in Sociology from Bowling Green State University and the juris doctorate (JD) from Duke University's School of Law.
Dr. Taylor's most recent research and publications include the following:
Taylor, Maurice C. and Earlene B. Merrill. "Nursing Care or Care of Nursing: Doctoral Education and the Shortage of African American Nursing Faculty " in African American Voices: Reflecting, Reforming, Reframing. Pamela V. Hammond (ed) National League for Nursing. (October) 2009.
Taylor, Maurice C. , "McNair Memos: The Courage to Care: Intergroup Differences in Test Avoidance and Degree Selection." The CGS Communicator Vol. 40. No. 2 (March): 2007
Taylor, Maurice C., Brighid Dwyer, and Sandra Pacheco. "Mission and Community: The Culture of Community Engagement and Minority Serving Institutions." found at Chapter 5, Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement. The National Forum on Education (2005): 32-37.
Taylor, Maurice C. "Beware of Marginalizing Voices on the Board" Trusteeship. Association of Governing Boards. March/April (2005): 14-17.
At the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education's 2004 annual conference he presented a paper entitled "Graduate School for Fund and Profit: Towards a New Paradigm of Graduate Education at HBCUS."
