Pathways to Leadership: A Talk with Dr. Hrabowski
Have you met our President? This is your chance! Free lunch!
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 7th Floor
Date & Time
March 6, 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Description
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, we will be having our annual "Pathways to Leadership" seminar talk with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Everyone is invited to come!
Event: Pathways to Leadership: A Talk with Dr. Hrabowski
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: AOK Library, 7th Floor
FREE Lunch will be offered.
AGENDA
1:00 PM Registration and lunch
1:25 PM Welcome remarks
1:30 PM Dr. Hrabowski’s talk
1:45 PM Q & A w/Dr. Hrabowski
2:00 PM End of the program
"At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where in his 20+ years as an educator he has work to create an environment that helps underrepresented students, specifically African-American, Latino and low-income learners, get degrees in math and science."
Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, President of UMBC since 1992, is a consultant on science and math education to national agencies, universities, and school systems. He was named by President Obama to chair the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He also chaired the National Academies' committee that produced the report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: American's Science and Technology Talent at the Crosstoads (2011).
Named one of the 100 Most Influential People int he World by the TIME (2012) and one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report (2008), he also received TIAA-CREF's Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence (2011), and the Heinz Award (2012) for contributions to improving the "Human Condition." UMBC has been recognized as a model for inclusive excellence by such publications as U.S. News, which the past eight years has recognized UMBC as a national leader in academic innovation and undergraduate teaching.
In 2003, the first year of programming for the PROMISE AGEP, a UMBC Public Policy graduate student named Robert Alexander asked if PROMISE could sponsor a “town hall” type of seminar with UMBC’s President, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. That conversation birthed the concept of an annual seminar for graduate students that would feature the university’s president. Dr. Robert Alexander is now part of the Health & Analytics Business Unit at Battelle, after spending nearly 10 years in his first dream job in Health Communications at the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Similarly, after more than 10 years, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski is the Chair of the U.S. President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans, and has received numerous recognitions from media outlets such as TIME, US News & World Report, PBS (“Charlie Rose,” “Tavis Smiley”), and CBS (“60 Minutes.”). The president continues to make time in his schedule to address graduate students. Dr. Hrabowski has been having his spring semester conversation with graduate students at UMBC since 2004.
Event: Pathways to Leadership: A Talk with Dr. Hrabowski
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: AOK Library, 7th Floor
Please register by clicking "Going" below so we can account for food. Free food!
For questions about accessibility, to request accommodations or for questions please contact Yarazeth Medina (yarazeth@umbc.edu or at 410-455-3514).
