Dzirasa recalls a meeting of Meyerhoff students in which they discussed how the success of Meyerhoff could be replicated at other institutions. He says that what “people don’t realize is that Dr. Hrabowski is constantly in the process of replicating himself in the people that are coming through the program.
“Even if it’s something that may not show in five or six years, going back to the reunion, I’m now seeing my classmates and the people who tutored me who are professors at Michigan, professors at Yale, professors at Harvard, and you see this subtle thing happening, where indeed, he has replicated himself,” Dzirasa adds.
Ultimately, McFadden says, Hrabowski’s insistence that he get nothing but the best from his Meyerhoff scholars has paid great
dividends.
“An underlying theme of great expectations is why Dr. Hrabowski was successful,” McFadden says. “If you have great expectations for yourself, then you will rise to the level of great accomplishment. What he always reinforces in all of his Meyerhoffs and in all of the students at UMBC is to expect the best from
themselves.”
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