University System of Maryland Appoints Search Committee For New UMBC President

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Jay A. Perman, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, connected Thursday appointed a hunt committee to prime a caller president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, who served arsenic president of UMBC for 3 decades and helped crook the assemblage into a nationally renowned institution, announced his retirement successful August.

Perman’s committee was approved the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, with Regent Michelle Gourdine serving arsenic chair.

In a release, the strategy said it is looking for a successor who volition proceed Hrabowski’s committedness to affordability, diversity, probe and assemblage service.

“We cognize UMBC was transformed nether Dr. Hrabowski, establishing itself arsenic a person successful teaching, research, and equity—in pupil accomplishment and assemblage engagement,” Perman said. “So we cognize we request a president who tin harness the scholarly firepower of UMBC’s people, who tin harness untapped potential, to support that national—and international—prominence rising.”

The committee includes UMBC pupil leaders, schoolhouse module and administrators.

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The committee volition enactment with recruiting steadfast Isaacson, Miller and yet taxable finalists to the chancellor and the Board of Regents for consideration.