T. Rowe Price Creates Access to Financial Education for More Than 8,000 Morgan State University Students, Faculty

BALTIMORE, April 19, 2022 /3BL Media/ - T. Rowe Price announced a new initiative today that expands financial education resources at Morgan State University. Now more than 8,000 students and faculty can increase their financial proficiency with Barron’s in Education – one of the leading financial newspapers in the financial industry.

Starting this month, any Morgan State University student or faculty member interested in investing, the financial industry or trend information will have free and unlimited access to Barron’s magazine, industry events, career advice from industry experts and experiential learning opportunities.

“The Barron’s in Education initiative is part of our continued relationship with Morgan State University,” said Raymone Jackson, T. Rowe Price’s global head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. “We are committed to providing opportunities and educational resources for future generations interested in pursuing careers in our industry.”

“Morgan’s Graves School of Business is proud to partner with T. Rowe Price on this noteworthy initiative that will further enhance the academic experience and knowledge of our students,” said Ali Emdad, Ph.D., associate dean of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management (SBM). “We’re committed to producing highly proficient and marketable business leaders here at Morgan and welcome the added benefit of having full access to certified news and information from a trusted source like Barron’s in Education for our entire campus community.”

This program is the latest step in the firm’s continued relationship with the Baltimore-based historically Black university. T. Rowe Price’s recruiting efforts and other internal initiatives also have served to build engagement with and strengthen the network of Morgan alumni at the firm, which includes engaging in campus-related activities, providing mentoring opportunities, strengthening relationships with faculty and student organizations, identifying students for career opportunities at T. Rowe Price, and maintaining an active presence on campus.

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About T. Rowe Price
Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (troweprice.com) is a global investment management organization with $1.55 trillion in assets under management as of March 31, 2022. The organization provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The company also offers sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price’s disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research.

About Morgan
Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified high research (R2) institution offering nearly 140 academic programs leading to degrees from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland’s Preeminent Public Urban Research University, and the only university to have its entire campus designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information about Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.

About Barron’s in Education
The Barron’s in Education program partners with academia and engages students to join business leaders, top market professionals, C-level executives, business school faculty and highly successful investors across the Barron’s community. For more information go to: http://go.dowjones.com/barronsineducation.