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Professor of Teaching and Learning
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York University
COSEBOC 6th Annual Gathering Closing Keynote Speaker
Friday, April 27, 2012, 1:30pm
 Pedro Noguera, PhD, is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. Noguera is an urban sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. He holds faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, as well as in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Dr. Noguera is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). In 2008, he was appointed by the Governor of New York to serve on the State University of New York Board of Trustees. More...
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President, The University of Maryland
Baltimore County
COSEBOC 6th Annual Gathering Featured Speaker: School Awards Ceremony
Friday, April 27, 2012, 6pm
 Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served as President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies committee that recently produced the report, “Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads.”
In 2008, he was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report, which in 2009, 2010, and 2011 ranked UMBC the #1 “Up and Coming” university in the nation. In 2011, U.S. News also ranked UMBC 4th nationally for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” – tied with Yale and immediately before Brown and Stanford. In 2009, TIME magazine named him one of America’s 10 Best College Presidents. In 2011, he received both the TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence and the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Academic Leadership Award, recognized by many as the nation’s highest awards among higher education leaders. Also in 2011, he was named one of seven Top American Leaders by The Washington Post and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. More...
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ESPN Sportswriter
Covering the NBA
COSEBOC 6th Annual Gathering Featured Speaker
Speaking with the Youth Component of the Gathering Only
 Chris Broussard is an award-winning journalist who currently works as a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. Though he covers all sports, his specialty is basketball, particularly the NBA. Because of his knowledge of the game and its participants, he makes regular television appearances on ESPN, serving as an NBA Analyst and Insider on shows such as “SportsCenter,’’ “Outside the Lines, ” “ESPN’s First Take,’’ “NBA Fastbreak,’’ “NBA Coast to Coast,’’ “SportsNation,’’ ESPN News and “Mike and Mike in the Morning.’’ He has also appeared on ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, CNN American Morning, “The Charlie Rose Show,’’ MSNBC, “Fox and Friends,” NBA-TV, the Madison Square Garden Network, and dozens of radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.
In covering the game of basketball, Broussard has traveled extensively throughout the U.S.A., as well as into Africa, Italy, England, Spain, Kuwait and Canada. Adept at moderating panel discussions as well, he has led celebrity forums that have included NBA stars LeBron James, Baron Davis, Chauncey Billups, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love and Tyreke Evans, NBA Hall of Famer Earl “The Pearl’’ Monroe, NFL Hall of Famer Mike Haynes, WNBA star Lisa Leslie, Ultimate Fighting champion Quinton “Rampage’’ Jackson, actress Regina King, and Hollywood film director Dan Klores, among others.
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