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Keynote
Speaker:
Freeman A. Hrabowski,
III
President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore
County)
Announcing
the Recipient on the 2013 APACS Educational Visionary
Award and Keynote Speaker Freeman A. Hrabowski, III:
Freeman
A. Hrabowski, III, has served as President of UMBC (The
University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992.
His research and publications focus on science and math
education, with special emphasis on minority participation
and performance. He chaired the National Academies committee
that produced the recent report, Expanding Underrepresented
Minority Participation: America’s Science and
Technology Talent at the Crossroads. He also was recently
named by President Obama to chair the newly created
President’s Advisory Commission on Educational
Excellence for African Americans.
In 2008, he was named one of America’s Best Leaders
by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked UMBC the
nation’s #1 “Up and Coming” university
the past four years (2009-12). During this period, U.S.
News also consistently ranked UMBC among the nation’s
leading institutions for “Best Undergraduate Teaching”
– tied in 2012 with Duke, Cal-Berkeley, the University
of Chicago, and Notre Dame. TIME magazine named him
one of America’s 10 Best College Presidents in
2009, and one of the “100 Most Influential People
in the World” in 2012.
In 2011, he received both the TIAA-CREF Theodore M.
Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence and the Carnegie
Corporation of New York’s Academic Leadership
Award, recognized by many as the nation’s highest
awards among higher education leaders. Also in 2011,
he was named one of seven Top American Leaders by The
Washington Post and the Harvard Kennedy School’s
Center for Public Leadership. In 2012, he received the
Heinz Award for his contributions to improving the “Human
Condition” and was among the inaugural inductees
into the U.S. News & World Report STEM Solutions
Leadership Hall of Fame.
He serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation,
the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies,
and universities and school systems nationally. He also
serves on the board
of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation,
Marguerite Casey Foundation (Chair), T. Rowe Price Group,
The Urban Institute, McCormick & Company, and the
Baltimore Equitable Society. He served previously on
the boards of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching and the Maryland Humanities Council (member
and Chair).
Examples of other honors include election to the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical
Society; receiving the prestigious McGraw Prize in Education,
the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, the Columbia
University Teachers College Medal for Distinguished
Service, and the GE African American Forum ICON Lifetime
Achievement Award; being named a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Black Engineer
of the Year (BEYA) by the BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness
Conference, Educator of the Year by the World Affairs
Council of Washington, DC, and Marylander of the Year
by the editors of the Baltimore Sun; and being listed
among Fast Company magazine’s first Fast 50 Champions
of Innovation in business and technology, and receiving
the Technology Council of Maryland’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. He also holds honorary degrees from
more than 20 institutions – from Harvard, Princeton,
and Duke to the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins
University, Georgetown University, Haverford College,
and Harvey Mudd College.
With philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff, he co-founded
the Meyerhoff Scholars Program in 1988. The program
is open to all high-achieving students committed to
pursuing advanced degrees and research careers in science
and engineering, and advancing underrepresented minorities
in these fields. The program is recognized as a national
model, and based on program outcomes, Hrabowski has
authored numerous articles and co-authored two books,
Beating the Odds and Overcoming the Odds (Oxford University
Press), focusing on parenting and high-achieving African
American males and females in science. He and UMBC were
recently featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes, attracting
national attention for the campus’s achievements
involving innovation and inclusive excellence.
A child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Hrabowski
was prominently featured in Spike Lee’s 1997 documentary,
Four Little Girls, on the racially motivated bombing
in 1963 of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church.
Born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Hrabowski graduated
at 19 from Hampton Institute with highest honors in
mathematics. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
he received his M.A. (mathematics) and four years later
his Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics)
at age 24.
Tedx MidAtlantic, Washing DC 2012:
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