[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 183 (Tuesday, December 8, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2914]
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                       HONORING FREEMAN HRABOWSKI

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                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 8, 2009

  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I rise to honor Freeman Hrabowski, 
President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has 
recently been honored as one of Time magazine's 10 Best College 
Presidents.
  President Hrabowski's deep commitment to fostering talented students, 
especially in science and math, has helped increase UMBC's number of 
African-American science and engineering majors sevenfold. Today, UMBC 
is one of America's biggest producers of African-American science and 
engineering Ph.D.s. As a fellow college president put it, President 
Hrabowski ``has taught all of higher education that minority and low-
income students . . . can meet the highest standards and excel.''
  Those high standards are, importantly, a matter of national 
competitiveness--but they are also a measure of this nation's promise 
of equality. As a child in Alabama, Freeman Hrabowski remembers Martin 
Luther King, Jr. telling civil rights marchers: ``What you do this day 
will have an impact on generations as yet unborn.'' Today, at places 
like UMBC, that promise is coming true in the lives of the young men 
and women who are making the most of what those marchers won for them.
  I join the members of the Maryland House delegation in thanking 
President Hrabowski for his commitment to his students and his 
extraordinary contribution to higher education. We congratulate him for 
this much-deserved recognition of his achievements.

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