Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, has worked tirelessly to boost the university's reputation as an educational powerhouse in mathematics and science. He's taken his work further to help students from around the nation, as highlighted in a recent New York Times op-ed.
Here's an excerpt:
"Right now only about 6 percent of young college graduates in this country have degrees in science or engineering, as opposed to about 10 percent in many developed nations. The numbers are far worse for minorities: only 2.7 percent of young African-American college graduates and 2.2 percent of Latinos.
This is the problem that keeps Freeman Hrabowski awake at night. Mr. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, led the committee that produced "Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation," an eye-opening study issued by the National Academies, the country's leading science advisory group."
Read the entire op-ed.