Author Profile

Freeman A. Hrabowski III is President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and was Chair, President Obama’s Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

Peter H. Henderson is Senior Advisor to the President, UMBC.They were chair and study director, respectively, for the National Academies report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (2011).