Expanding the STEM Pipeline in America: Institutional Culture Change in STEM Teaching and Learning
Event Details
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- Insight Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D., president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Hrabowski recently chaired the National Academies committee that produced the report "Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads." Using the report as the context for his lecture, he will discuss the success of his university in changing institutional culture, producing minority scientists and transforming first-year science teaching and learning.
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. in mathematics and four years later his Ph.D. in higher education administration/statistics at age 24.
Dr. Hrabowski has served as president of UMBC since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. In 2008, he was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. In 2009, TIME magazine named him one of America's 10 Best College Presidents. 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.
Dr. Hrabowski 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 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation (chair) and The Urban Institute.
A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Dr. Hrabowski has received numerous awards, including the 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. - Open to
- Public
- Contact
- Gloria Phipps
- Phone
- (212) 327-8967
- Sponsor
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Gloria Phipps
(212) 327-8967
phipps@rockefeller.edu