Speeches and Videos

Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights

Mary Bush, Freeman Hrabowski, and Condoleezza Rice

National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal Acceptance Speech 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Harvard University October 12, 2022

Dr. Hrabowski talks about why he believes higher education matters at ACE 2018. Hrabowski is the recipient of the 2018 ACE Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Hrabowski and Charles Koch Foundation Executive Director Ryan Stowers discuss a 60 year experiment on leadership and culture change at the 2023 ASU+GSV Summit

Additional Links

Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights. (2024) Part 1: Birmingham, 1963 Part 2: Growing Up Segregated

ASU /GSV Annual Summit: Reflections on American Higher Education: A 60 year experiment on Leadership and Culture Change with Freeman Hrabowski (2023)

Harvard Inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Speaker (2022)

Presidents Day address hosted by the Maryland Senate (2022)

Harvard FAS Division of Science, MLK Jr. Lecture (2021)

“A Great Conversation,” The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2020)

University Day, Oregon State University (2020)

APLU Annual Meeting (2019)

AGU Council on Undergraduate Research (2018)

University of Maryland School of Medicine Commencement Address (2018)

ACE Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)

Georgia Tech Undergraduate Commencement (2016)

Harvard Graduate School of Education Convocation (2016)

Columbia Association Speaker Series (2016)

MIT Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration (2016)

American Public Health Association (2015)

Installation, University of Richmond President Ronald Crutcher (2015 - Remarks at 1:01)

2015 Internet2 Global Summit (2015)

White House College Opportunity Day of Action (2014)

Howard County Schools Parent Empowerment Forum (2014)

Walter Capps Lecture, Federation of State Humanities Councils (2013)

Google Zeitgeist 2013 (2013)

American Association for the Advancement of Science, William D. Carey Lecture (2013)

American Educational Research Association, Distingished Public Service Award Lecture (2013)

American Alliance of Museums 2013 Annual Meeting, Keynote Address (2013)

TED 2013 (2013)

President Hrabowski speaks at launch of U.Va.’s ADVANCE Program (2013)

Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) Winter Conference (2013)

Chautauqua Institution (2012)

President Hrabowski Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Mississippi

President Hrabowski Speaks at Drexel’s Presidential Inauguration (Starting at minute 77)

President Hrabowski Delivers AASCU President-to-Presidents Lecture (2010)

President Freeman Hrabowski Speaks to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2010)

President Hrabowski on National Press Club Panel, on C-SPAN (2010)

VIDEO: President Hrabowski’s Address at U.S.Department of Justice (2010)

President Hrabowski Delivers Wheaton College Commencement Address, (Part I) (2007)

President Hrabowski Delivers Wheaton College Commencement Address, (Part II) (2007)

UMBC Speeches Archive

2022 UMBC Budget Testimony (2/25/2022) and video of Pres. Hrabowski’s presentation to the Maryland State Senate (at 1:06:58)

2020 Legislative Testimony (2/20)

2019 Convocation Address (8/27/19)

2019 State of the University Address (8/22/19)

2019 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (4/3/2019)

2018 Convocation Address (8/28/18)

2018 State of the University Address (8/23/18)

2018 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (4/25/18)

2017 Convocation Address (8/29/17)

2017 State of the University Address (8/24/17)

2017 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (5/5/17)

2017 Legislative Testimony (2/15/17)

Founders Day Address (9/16/16)

2016 Convocation Address (8/30/16)

2016 State of the University Address (8/25/16)

2015 Convocation Address (8/25/15)

2015 State of the University Address (8/20/15)

2015 Legislative Testimony (2/15)

2014 Convocation Address (8/26/14)

2014 State of the University Address (8/21/14)

2013 Convocation Address (8/27/13)

2013 State of the University Address (8/22/13)

2013 Legislative Testimony (2/13-3/13)

2012 State of the University Address (8/23/12)

2011 State of the University Address (8/24/11)

2011 Legislative Testimony (2/11) 

2010 Convocation Address (8/30/10)

2010 State of the University Address (8/19/10)

2010 Legislative Testimony (2/10)

2009 Convocation Address (8/31/09)

2009 State of the University Address (8/20/09)

2008 Convocation Address (8/28/08)

2008 State of the University Address (8/21/08)

2007 Convocation Address (8/28/07)

2007 State of the University Address (8/21/07)

FY2008 Capital Budget (3/07)

2006 State of the University Address (8/22/06)

2005 State of the University Address (8/31/05)