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The University of Maryland traces its history to 1856, when the General Assembly chartered a state agricultural school. The Maryland Agricultural College was established on ancestral land of the Piscataway tribe, which it purchased from a slaveholding farmer and agricultural education advocate, and three years later opened with 34 students.
In a massive restructuring of the state's higher education system in 1988, the school was designated as the flagship campus of the newly formed University of Maryland System (later changed to the University System of Maryland in 1997). It was formally named the University of Maryland, College Park.
In a massive 1988 restructuring of the state higher education system, the school was designated as the flagship campus of the newly formed University of Maryland System and was formally named University of Maryland, College Park.
History and Mission. Timeline. 1800s. 1856. Maryland Agricultural College (MAC), forerunner of the University of Maryland, is chartered on March 6. 1858. For $20,000, Charles Benedict Calvert sells the state 428 acres of his Rossburg Farm slave plantation for the site of MAC. 1859. MAC is formally dedicated.
The University of Maryland, College Park, was created in 1856 by Charles Benedict Calvert as Maryland Agricultural College, which became a land-grant institution in 1865 under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. Women were first admitted in 1912, and the school was racially integrated in 1950–51, following a highly publicized legal battle.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Through the merger of campuses and components of the University of Maryland with those formerly under the Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges, the University of Maryland System was created in 1988 (Chapter 246, Acts of 1988).
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University of Maryland, College Park is a public institution that was founded in 1856. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 30,608 (fall 2023), its setting is suburban, and the campus...
