 The program provides an academic business environment for mid-level black professionals, bringing together the university's resources and Baltimore's business community.The Raymond V. Haysbert Research Center at Coppin State University, an applied research facility, was instituted and named in his honor in 2004.When Haysbert died of heart failure in Baltimore on May 24, 2010, he was called an "elder statesman of Maryland's African-American business community" by the "Baltimore Sun" and lauded as a "courageous American hero" by the president of the Baltimore City Council.