Coppin State's history began in 1900 when the Baltimore City School Board established a one-year program for the training of African-American elementary school teachers at Douglass High School in Baltimore. In 1909, the program became its own institution, separate from the high school. In 1926 it was named Fannie Jackson Coppin Normal School, honoring the black educator and missionary. It became Coppin Teachers College in 1938, Coppin State Teachers College in 1952, Coppin State College in 1963, and was officially renamed Coppin State University on April 13, 2004. In 1988 it became part of the University System of Maryland.
CoppinStateUniversity is a model urban, residential liberal arts university located in the northwest section of the City of Baltimore that provides academic programs in the arts and sciences, teacher education, nursing, graduate studies, and continuing education.
Fanny Jackson Coppin was born a slave in Washington, D.C. She gained her freedom, graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, and founded the Philadelphia Institute that was the forerunner of Cheyney StateUniversity.
Coppin, which was officially renamed CoppinStateUniversity on April 13, 2004, is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
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