Sentences with phrase «students at commencement»

Thirty years later and with an increasing number of students at commencement, each graduate still wears the original graduation robe, now heavily stitched and repaired.

Every year at Liberty University at least some students, as do students at commencement ceremonies everywhere, express disagreement with the school's choice of speaker, but never has their discontentment been so amplified by both national media coverage and the power of social networking.

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And Jan Piercy, who led the charge for a student speaker at Wellesley's 1969 commencement, was appointed to the World Bank by President Clinton and served seven years as U.S. executive director during his administration.

In 1990, 150 students at Wellesley College rebelled at news that Bush had been enlisted to deliver the commencement address.

She objects to the suggestion that «students who, at least in the case of commencements, have no recourse to meaningful and respectful debate ought to simply listen without objection or response to a speaker whose ideas offend them.»

Consequently, she implies, students had no choice but to express themselves at commencement.

Faculty, staff and students in the graduating class of 2010 will protest Governor Paterson's policies when he delivers the commencement address at Bronx Community College (BCC) tomorrow.

At 11:10 a.m., SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson attends the SUNY Old Westbury Commencement celebration, Student Union, 223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury.

Instead of working during commencement, a longtime member of the event parking staff at Binghamton University will actually be walking with thousands of students to accept his degree.

After peaceful protests broke out at Notre Dame during Vice President Mike Pence's commencement address, some Tompkins County students had a different reaction for his predecessor, Joe Biden.

At 9:30 a.m., U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and Al Jazeera America host and newscaster Ray Suarez speak to graduates of CUNY's LaGuardia Community College during the college's 42nd annual commencement exercises for about 1,000 students; Javits Center North, 11th Avenue and 38th Street, Manhattan.

The Woodrow Wilson School awarded 83 graduate students and 144 undergraduate students with degrees at its May 31 Commencement and through the 2015 - 16 academic year.

She made an incredible commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania reminding students, «You have the inclination and the ability to change your communities, and to change your slice of the world.

To succeed, all you need to do is take stock of your life at the commencement of becoming a postgraduate student, then do the sums and ensure that your study fits within your life in a balanced way.

Wilson was a recent commencement speaker at the school, and Peterson says he is referenced often as an example to students today.

Following commencement, he will return to his home state of North Carolina in the role of program coordinator for the Robertson Scholars Program, an organization that administers a four - year merit scholarship and leadership development program to students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

While HGSE master's and doctoral students were busy wrapping up final projects and making plans for commencement this past May, many in the HGSE faculty were preparing for a whole new set of students to take over the classrooms of Appian Way through their engagement with Professional Education at HGSE.

Carter, who received her Ed.D. later in the day, is believed to be the first HGSE student to speak at the University Commencement since Brock Putnam, Ed.M., in 1987.

Commencement Speakers Unbowed by Student Slings and Arrows Bloomberg Businessweek, 5/21/14 «At Harvard University, the dean of the Graduate School of Education rejected a request by some students and faculty members to rescind an invitation to Michael Johnston, a state senator in Colorado, who some found objectionable because of his stance on education reform.»

Protest at Harvard Over Commencement Speaker at Education School Washington Post, 5/17/14 «Dozens of student and alumni at the Harvard Graduate School of Education issued a statement... protesting the selection of Colorado state Sen. Michael Johnston (D) as the school's 2014 commencement speCommencement Speaker at Education School Washington Post, 5/17/14 «Dozens of student and alumni at the Harvard Graduate School of Education issued a statement... protesting the selection of Colorado state Sen. Michael Johnston (D) as the school's 2014 commencement specommencement speaker.»

After today, the students awarded degrees at HGSE Commencement will go on to even more meaningful work in their education careers.

This was placed on the teacher's desk at the commencement of the following lesson and during that lesson while students were working the teacher read and wrote comments upon these notes.

As Commencement approaches, we look back the impact our students made over the course of their year at the Ed School.

The Ed School's student a cappella group, the Harmonicas, will perform an original song at Commencement.

Graduating students enter the Paladin stadium before U.S. President George W. Bush watches them during the commencement ceremony at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina May 31, 2008.

Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to review a Florida school district's policy allowing student messages at graduation.

Those students include Emily Tinoco, who overcame her lack of English skills to speak at the Douglas campus» commencement ceremony and now attends classes at Cochise College.

Graduating students at a historically black university in Florida, Bethune - Cookman, protested the comments, booing and turning their back on her while she made a commencement speech in May.

In an effort to meet that challenge, schools began offering credit recovery programs — opportunities outside of the standard curriculum for at - risk students to earn course credits and get back on the road to commencement.

MYcroSchool Winter Graduation 2015 MYcroSchool students, their families, staff, Board of Directors, our community partners and public officials attended winter commencement ceremonies on January 14th at the historic Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg.

MYcroSchool students, their families, staff, Board of Directors, our community partners and public officials attended winter commencement ceremonies on January 14th at the historic Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg.

Today, most former students leave college with at least one student loan; on average the typical graduate in the United States carries $ 27,975 of debt upon crossing the threshold at commencement.

Preparation for this would need to begin at the commencement of the unit, and opportunities provided for students to develop the confidence for this kind of personal prominence.

About 1,556 University of Florida students will receive degrees at summer commencement ceremonies Aug. 8 at the O'Connell Center.

Among those receiving degrees at Saturday's 66th Commencement Ceremony held at the Mondavi Center were 134 DVM students, 39 residents and 11 students in the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine program.

Commencement exercises for students in CCA's graduate programs will be held at 10 a.m. on May 14 at Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden gives commencement address to graduate students at MICA on May 15.

For more information about CCA's 2016 commencement exercises, please call the college's Student Affairs Office at 510.594.3666.

Images: main image: Tom Hanks (second from left) as James B. Donovan in Bridge of Spies (photo: courtesy of DreamWorks); inset image: Graduating student with James B. Donovan, president of Pratt Institute (1968 - 70) at Commencement (uncredited photo from A Eulogy for James B. Donovan memorial booklet)

Pratt Institute held its 126th Commencement ceremonies on May 15 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, where 1,255 graduate and undergraduate students crossed the stage — walking, striding, sashaying, and dancing — to receive their degrees and become...

The Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) Senior Curator of Architecture and Design Paola Antonelli praised architects, artists, and designers as the R and D (research and development) of society and urged students to «inspire the whole world» at Pratt Institute's 128th Commencement on May 17.

Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress and former CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, urged graduate students at the Maryland Institute College of Art's commencement to continue to tap their creativity and use it to serve others.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., May 11, 2018 — On the eve of its 2018 commencement ceremonies, Cranbrook Academy of Art celebrated another year of outstanding work by its graduate students at its annual Academy Awards Night on May 10.

The Awards are presented to the students either at Commencement or at an Awards Ceremony just prior to the graduation.

The protest took place at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony yesterday, and was organized by student activist group Free Cooper Union, which has directed a variety of informational and protest actions in response to the landmark tuition decision.

Benjamin Strauss, the student commencement speaker at graduation this year, stated in his speech that Cooper Union's education model is one that «money could never buy.»

Clinton was the first student to deliver a commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969.

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Richard Edelman delivered the commencement address to graduate students at Sacred Heart University.

And, as he told students at a Stanford commencement in 2005, «Whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.»