New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.
Take
a step onto the Catonsville campus and chances run high that you will bump into
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski. It’s nothing new for him but it’s a welcome
surprise to many students.
If
you see Hrabowski walking around campus today, not only will you run into the
President but one of TIME Magazine’s 2012 Top 100 Most Influential People. Time
announced the list this morning and Hrabowski joined the likes of Barack Obama,
Warren Buffet and Juan Manuel Santos, among prestigious others.
In
Time’s official write-up on Hrabowski, it is duly noted that he has spent the
last 20 years “turning a humble commuter school into one of
the nation's leading sources of African Americans who get Ph.D.s in science and
engineering.” That is in large part due to the success of the Meyerhoff
Scholars program giving all students an opportunity to succeed in the sciences.
Columnist
for TIME, Andrew Rotherham crafted the Hrabowski capsule piece and you can read
it, here.
Hrabowski
is no stranger to national recognition. In 2008, U.S. News & World Report
named Hrabowski one of America's Best Leaders and in 2009 TIME honored him as
one of the country’s top 10 college presidents. But as
he told the Baltimore Sun, these are all shared achievements between him
and UMBC.
“I
accept this as a wonderful award on behalf of the whole campus," Hrabowski
said in the Sun’s article. “My success and the campus' success are the same.
People appreciate what we've done at the university, and I enjoy telling the
story.”
For
the last three years, UMBC reeled in the U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1
ranking for ‘Up and Coming’ University and Hrabowski has spoken to that on
numerous occasions. America East On Campus produced a feature
on the UMBC President in 2010 detailing his impressive background that has
shaped the educator he has become.
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