Higher Ed Leader Freeman Hrabowski to Speak at NC State
What: Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, chair of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans and president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will be speaking on “Institutional Culture Change: Fostering Inclusive Excellence and Academic Innovation.” Hrabowski was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by TIME Magazine in 2012.
Who: The event is the first in North Carolina State University’s Contemporary Issues in Higher Education series.
When: Thursday, Jan. 30, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Where: The McKimmon Center on NC State’s main campus in Raleigh. The McKimmon Center is located at 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, NC 27606.
Cost: The event is free and open to the public.
Contact: For more information, contact Dr. Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi, director of Diversity Programs for NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at (919) 513-8057 or jmphd@ncsu.edu.
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