UMBC’s Hrabowski named to Time ‘influential’ list


Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, appears to be the only college president named to the Time magazine’s latest list of the world’s 100 most influential people, the Washington Post reports. Hrabowski unquestionably ranks among the five or 10 most important college presidents in the nation. In a two-decade tenure, he has elevated UMBC from commuter school to top-flight research university. He has also pretty much cornered the market on African American scholarship in science, technology, engineering and math. There are other heroic university presidents and other up-and-coming schools. But Hrabowski’s UMBC has taught the likes of Harvard and Hopkins how to teach science, with its groundbreaking course redesigns in biology and chemistry that stress teamwork and interaction over the passive lecture…

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