The Power to Change-Encouraging Minority Achievement in Education

THE POWER TO
CHANGE-ENCOURAGING MINORITY ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION

 “The
Power to Change-Encouraging Minority Achievement in Education.” Freeman
Hrabowski, III, prominent American educator and president of the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County will speak on changing minority achievement in
education.

 Freeman
Harbowski, III, has served as the president of 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. 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.

Edgerton
Center for the Performing Arts, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue,
Fairfield, CT

 Wednesday, February 12, at 7 p.m.