It's no secret around Baltimore that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's head honcho, Freeman Hrabowski, has been working tirelessly to make his university into a well-rounded, top-notch institution. Now, however, readers of Time magazine know it too as Hrabowski has been named one of Time's "10 Best College Presidents."
Here's an excerpt:
"Freeman Hrabowski has a problem. The president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been so successful at cultivating his school's reputation for steering African-American students toward science and engineering � fields in which they have been traditionally under-represented � that he fears the university will be forever typed as a hard-discipline powerhouse at the expense of everything else. "I often say to people that yes, over half of our students are in science fields, but the other half are in arts," says Hrabowski. "We're working to build a university that has first-rate research across all disciplines."
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