Growing up in Alabama during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Hrabowski says he drew on those experiences when he created the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC in 1988, which became a leading model for increasing the diversity of university students in STEM disciplines.
Since 1993, more than 1,500 students have graduated through the Meyerhoff programme; 448 went on to earn PhDs, including 78 who gained MD/PhDs.
The programme has been replicated at numerous US universities, most recently at Stony Brook in New York, with a US$56.6 million investment in 2022 from the Simons Foundation.
King posed this question to the group: what will it take to open the eyes and hearts of people to allow our children to go to better schools?
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