Ammerica Bracho on The Orange County Register
America Bracho, CEO of Latino Health Access & Board Member of MCF, talks about Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities.
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Tavis Smiley Show
Memories of the Movement features poignant, humorous, unheard, or little known stories from a number of well-known civil rights icons. Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, UMBC president, recalls how he became a child leader in the movement.
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100 History Makers in the Making
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski featured as on of the "100 History Makers in the Making".
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Freeman Hrabowski noted as BBJ's Power 20
The Baltimore Business Journal announces their top 20 most powerful business men and women.
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MCF Board Member, Freeman A. Hrabowski, featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Read the Article
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski is one of the country's biggest advocates of improving STEM education.UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski is one of the country's biggest advocates of improving STEM education.
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UMBC Program Hopes To Bring Back Jobs
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski is one of the country's biggest advocates of improving STEM education.
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UMBC's President Hrabowski named one of America’s 10 Best College Presidents
In 2008, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report, which in 2009 ranked UMBC the #1 “Up and Coming” university in the nation and fourth among all colleges and universities in the nation for commitment to undergraduate teaching. |
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MCF Board Member, America Bracho featured on PBS
The JOURNAL profiles public health doctor America Bracho, who serves her Santa Ana, CA community – notorious for crime, poverty and disease – with her organization, Latino Health Access.reform.” |
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Persistent Racial Gap Seen in Students’ Test Scores
“Where we see the gap narrowing, that’s because there’s been an emphasis on supplemental education, on after-school programs that encourage students to read more and do more math problems,” Dr. Hrabowski said. “Where there are programs that encourage that additional work, students of color do the work and their performance improves and the gap narrows.” |
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People We Love :: America Bracho
Featured in YES! magazine
When Dr. America Bracho began working with the Latino community in Orange County, California, she made a disturbing discovery. Children were suffering from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other preventable conditions, and their families lacked the information and programs that could keep them healthy. |
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William C. Bell to Receive American Humane Association's 2009 Vincent De Francis Award
DENVER, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Humane Association announced it will present the prestigious Vincent De Francis Award to William C. Bell on April 1, 2009, in Atlanta during the 17th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. The award recognizes those with the vision and commitment to reach across disciplines in order to improve child-welfare systems on a national level. Bell is president and chief executive officer of Casey Family Programs, a position he has held since 2006. |
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America's Best Leaders: Freeman Hrabowski, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Hrabowski's civil rights background, his Ph.D. in education and statistics (which he earned when he was just 24), and his ebullient cheerleading for education have led him to the presidency of what had been a no-name commuter campus—the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. And they've empowered him to take bold actions, such as disbanding an Africana graduate studies program and refusing to field a college football team in favor of funding math undergraduates and a championship chess team. The result: a dramatic increase in the number of technologically advanced graduates of all races and genders. |
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Goal No. 1: Good Science. Goal No. 1: Diversity
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, president Freeman A. Hrabowski III, who is chair of the Marguerite Casey Foundation board, and Michael F. Summers push universities to set up programs for minority students who are inclined toward science. At U.M.B.C., the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program has provided an intense scientific education to about 800 undergraduates so far. |
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CWLA
to Present Champion
for Children Award
to Ruth Massinga
The
Child Welfare
League of America
(CWLA) will present
its Champion
for Children
award to Ruth
Massinga, former
President and
Chief Executive
Officer the Casey
Family Program,
at a dinner in
Washington, DC
on Feb. 28. |
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A Magnetic Force
In his 15 years as president, Freeman A. Hrabowski III has so transformed the University of Maryland Baltimore County with his exuberant, forceful character that people on campus invented a word for it: Freemanized |
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