 Over the next decade , the local school district failed to delivery on its pledge to adequately fund the revitalized Baltimore City College curriculum and enforce higher admissions standards . In 1975 , City students , faculty , and influential alumni like then @-@ Mayor of Baltimore William Donald Schaefer ' 39 and then @-@ City Comptroller Hyman A. Pressman ' 33 again engaged in a series of coordinated campaigns , urging political leaders and members of the School Board to provide the resources and enforce the high standards the school needs to succeed . As a result , the City of Baltimore announced its plan to advance funds to complete a $ 9 million renovation of the school 's main building and earmarked funding for a comprehensive , two @-@ year study ( 1977 – 79 ) . Subject matter experts in education and pedagogy , school faculty , parents , alumni , and other members of the school community formed the " New City College Task Force " . The task force , which combed through two decades of previous improvement plans , academic proposals , and experimental curricula , recommended to the School Board a plan that included stricter admissions and retention standards , a revitalized <unk> and liberal arts @-@ based curriculum , and the autonomy to selectively recruit new , highly qualified faculty and administrators . 
