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Photo: Obama Appoints UMBC President
Several education leaders were added to a newly created advisory commission.
President Barack Obama and Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland in Baltimore County, shared a moment in the Oval Office last week.
Obama named Hrabowski as chairman of the newly created President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans, according to the university's website.
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Hrabowski and the comission will advise Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, according to the release.
The UMBC president and a panel of other education administrators were on hand as Obama signed the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans Executive Order on Thursday, July 26.
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Hrabowski can be seen fourth in from the left and right from a sharply dressed Reverend Al Sharpton, who is wearing a purple striped tie.
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