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December 10, 2001
'Tis the season to get a diploma
It'll begin to look a lot like commencement
Friday, Dec. 14 and Saturday, Dec. 15 when as many as 1,700
California State University, Sacramento students will be eligible
to take part in Winter Commencement ceremonies at Arco Arena.
The ceremony for the College of Education, the College of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies will be Friday at 2
p.m.
The ceremony for the College of Arts and Letters, the College
of Business Administration, the College of Engineering and
Computer Science and the College of Health and Human Services
will be Saturday at 9 a.m.
The ceremonies will also feature speakers with national perspectives
on education and business. Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard W. Riley will give the commencement address at the
Friday ceremony where he will also be awarded an honorary
degree, doctor of humane letters. Janis Besler Heaphy, publisher
and president of The Sacramento Bee, will address Saturday's
graduates.
Riley served as education secretary under President Bill Clinton
after receiving national recognition for his educational efforts
as governor of South Carolina. As secretary, he launched initiatives
to raise academic standards, improve instruction for the poor
and disadvantaged, expand college grants and loan programs,
and improve teaching. He also led a charge to give schools
and libraries discounted Internet access and improve the Individuals
with Disabilities in Education Act. He graduated cum laude
from Furman University and holds a law degree from the University
of South Carolina.
Besler Heaphy heads the oldest and second largest newspaper
in the 24-paper McClatchy Company. She held several high-level
positions in advertising and marketing for the Los Angeles
Times, Los Angeles Magazine and Omni Magazine including national
advertising manager and senior vice president of advertising
and marketing for the Times before being named publisher and
president of the Bee in 1998. She earned both a bachelor's
degree and a master's degree in education from Miami University
in Oxford, Ohio.
Additional commencement information is available at www.csus.edu/commence.
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