Selected Speeches

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

2022 Inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Speaker

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

Presidents Day address hosted by the Maryland Senate, with a performance by The Cleftomaniacs (2/21/22)

Harvard FAS Division of Science, MLK Jr. Lecture (2/5/21)

“A Great Conversation,” The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (10/12/20)

2020 University Day, Oregon State University (9/15/20)

2020 Legislative Testimony (2/20)

2019 APLU Annual Meeting (11/19/19)

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)

AGU Council on Undergraduate Research (7/1/18)

University of Maryland School of Medicine Commencement Address (5/17/18)

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

ACE Lifetime Achievement Award (3/14/18)

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)

Georgia Tech Undergraduate Commencement (12/17/16)

Founders Day Address (9/16/16)

2016 Convocation Address (8/30/16)

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

Harvard Graduate School of Education Convocation (5/25/16)

Columbia Association Speaker Series (5/5/16)

MIT Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration (2/10/16)

American Public Health Association (11/1/15)

Installation, University of Richmond President Ronald Crutcher (10/30/15) (Remarks at 1:01)

2015 Convocation Address (8/25/15)

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

2015 Internet2 Global Summit (4/27/15) — excerpts and interview

2015 Legislative Testimony (2/15)

White House College Opportunity Day of Action (12/14)

Howard County Schools Parent Empowerment Forum (9/29/14)

2014 Convocation Address (8/26/14)

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

Walter Capps Lecture, Federation of State Humanities Councils (11/8/13)

Google Zeitgeist 2013 (9/16/13)

2013 Convocation Address (8/27/13)

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

American Association for the Advancement of Science, William D. Carey Lecture (5/2/13) 

American Educational Research Association, Distingished Public Service Award Lecture (4/29/13)

American Alliance of Museums 2013 Annual Meeting, Keynote Address (5/20/13)

TED 2013 (2/26/13)

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

President Hrabowski speaks at launch of U.Va.’s ADVANCE Program (2/7/13)

Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) Winter Conference (1/3/13)

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

Chautauqua Institution (7/13/12)

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

President Hrabowski Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Mississippi

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

2011 Legislative Testimony (2/11) 

President Hrabowski Delivers AASCU President-to-Presidents Lecture (11/22/10)

President Freeman Hrabowski Speaks to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (11/4/10)

2010 Convocation Address (8/30/10)

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

President Hrabowski on National Press Club Panel, on C-SPAN (6/4/10)

VIDEO: President Hrabowski’s Address at U.S.Department of Justice (3/10)

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)

President Hrabowski Delivers Wheaton College Commencement Address, (Part I) (5/19/07)

President Hrabowski Delivers Wheaton College Commencement Address, (Part II (5/19/07)

FY2008 Capital Budget (3/07)

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

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