Holding Fast to Dreams; Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement
Marlayna Demond (Jacket photograph) Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2013. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches. [8], 200 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes Introduction, Afterword, Acknowledgments, A Note from the Series Editor, Notes, and Index. Includes chapters on Standing Up for Justice; Development of an Educator; Inclusive Excellence in Science and Engineering; and Raising a Generation of Achievers. This is a Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book. Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III (born August 13, 1950) is an American educator, advocate, and mathematician. In May 1992 he began his term as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), one of the twelve public universities composing the University System of Maryland. Hrabowski has been credited with transforming UMBC into an institution noted for research and innovation. Under his leadership, UMBC was ranked the #1 Up and Coming University in the U.S. for six consecutive years (2009-2014) by U.S. News and World Report magazine. When that designation was retired, U.S. News and World Report began including UMBC on its annual Most Innovative National Universities list. Hrabowski is the co-author of the books Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males (1998); Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women (2001); Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM (2015); and The Empowered University: Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success (2019). An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others. In Holding Fast to Dreams, 2018 American Council on Education (ACE) Lifetime Achievement Award winner Freeman Hrabowski recounts his journey as an educator, a university president, and a pioneer in developing successful, holistic programs for high-achieving students of all races. When Hrabowski was twelve years old, a civil rights leader visited his Birmingham, Alabama, church and spoke about a children's march for civil rights and opportunity. That leader was the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and that march changed Hrabowski's life. Until then, Freeman was a kid who loved school and solving math problems. Although his family had always stressed the importance of education, he never expected that the world might change and that black and white students would one day study together. But hearing King speak changed everything for Hrabowski, who convinced his parents that he needed to answer King's call to stand up for equality. While participating in the famed Children's Crusade, he spent five terrifying nights in jail, during which Freeman became a leader for the younger kids, as he learned about the risk and sacrifice that it would take to fight for justice. Hrabowski went on to fuse his passion for education and for equality, as he made his life's work inspiring high academic achievement among students of all races in science and engineering. It also brought him from Birmingham to Baltimore, where he has been president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for more than two decades. While at UMBC, he co-founded the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has been one of the most successful programs for educating African Americans who go on to earn doctorates in the STEM disciplines. Condition: Very good / Good (inside of DJ has some staining).
Keywords: Civil Rights, Minorities, Engineering, Mathematics, African-Americans, Children's Crusade, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Meyerhoff Scholars, Racism, Segregation, STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Education, Academics
ISBN: 9780807003442
[Book #82403]
Price: $125.00