UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski To Retire In 2022

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — University of Maryland, Baltimore County president Freeman A. Hrabowski III volition discontinue aft the successful June 2022, astatine the extremity of the 2021-2022 world year, the assemblage announced connected Wednesday.

In a YouTube post, Hrabowski thanked students, faculty, administrators, elected officials and assemblage members for their enactment during his decades-long vocation successful higher education.

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“This is simply a authorities that believes successful the value of acquisition and higher education, and authorities that has fixed to us,” He said. “And erstwhile you spot the campus, erstwhile you travel here, everybody marvels astatine the quality of the campus, the grounds, a cardinal dollars-plus successful the past fewer decades of buildings.

“But much important than that,” helium continued, “as is existent with this state, arsenic is existent with UMBC, what matters: the people.”

Gov. Larry Hogan tweeted that Hrabowski “inspired truthful galore with his actions, words, and dedication” and praised the outgoing president’s committedness to students from underrepresented groups.

.@UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski has inspired truthful galore with his actions, words, and dedication. His committedness to supporting students from underrepresented groups has transformed higher acquisition not lone successful Maryland, but astir the world. I privation him each the champion successful retirement. pic.twitter.com/F1Y9GwYVDB

— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) August 25, 2021

In a statement, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said Hrabowski’s status leaves “a gaping spread to fill” and wished the outgoing president good successful his aboriginal endeavors.

“Dr. Hrabowski is simply a existent visionary, and his enactment has been transformative for truthful galore students, for Baltimore County and for our full state,” Olszewski said. “As County Executive, a arrogant UMBC alumnus, and a friend, I convey him for his decades of dedicated work devoted to expanding entree to acquisition excellence, sparking innovation, and promoting equity – efforts that person transformed UMBC into the nationalist person it is today.”

Hrabowski was appointed president of UMBC successful 1992. In the astir decades since, the schoolhouse has accrued undergraduate enrollment by 4,000 students, much than doubled the fig of postgraduate students and doubled the fig of grade programs.

During that aforesaid time, the schoolhouse has greatly accrued the fig of Pell assistance recipients–” students who show exceptional fiscal need,” according to the U.S. Department of Education–from 16% to 30.5%, and grown the the six-year graduation complaint to implicit 69%, the schoolhouse said.

International students from much than 100 countries present be classes astatine the university.

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Hrabowski was successful Birmingham, Alabama successful 1950 and served arsenic a kid person successful the Civil Rights Movement. He was jailed for participating successful the Children’s March, the assemblage said.