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Freeman A. Hrabowski,
III,
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served
as President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
since May, 1992. His
research and publications focus on science and math education,
with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He
currently chairs the National Academies’ Committee on Underrepresented
Groups and the Science & Engineering Workforce Pipeline.
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 boards of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation, Marguerite
Casey Foundation (Chair), and The Urban Institute. He also sits on the
boards of Constellation Energy Group, McCormick & Company, and the Baltimore
Equitable Society. He also served on the board of the Maryland Humanities
Council as both a member and Chair.
Examples
of recent honors include being named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S.
News & World Report in 2008; 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, and the
Columbia University Teachers
College Medal for Distinguished Service; being named
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science 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. He also holds honorary degrees from more than
a dozen institutions, including Princeton University, Duke University, and
Haverford College.
He 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. Both books are used by
universities, school systems, and community groups around the country.
A child-leader
in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. 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, Dr. 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.
2009
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