Undergraduate College
Commencement: May 8
Degree awarded: B.A.
Number of graduates: 382
Guest speaker: Josef Joffe, scholar, publisher,
and editor of the German weekly Die Zeit
and a contributing editor to Time magazine.
He is a visiting professor of political science
at Stanford University, where he also served
as a Payne Distinguished Lecturer. He is a
distinguished fellow at Stanford’s Institute
for International Studies and an Abramowitz
fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
Online video footage is available.
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School of Law
Commencement: May 28
Degrees awarded: J.D.; LL.M. in environmental
and natural resources law
Number of graduates: 210
Guest speaker: Erin Brockovich Ellis, the
brash and gutsy law firm file clerk whose
story inspired the film Erin Brockovich, starring
Julia Roberts. Ellis investigated the
impact of a toxic chemical that had leaked
into the groundwater of Hinkley, California,
from Pacific Gas and Electric’s holding
tanks. Her research led to a multimilliondollar
settlement with the California-based
utility.
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Graduate School of Education and Counseling
Commencement: June 5
Degrees Awarded: M.Ed., M.A.T., M.A.
in Counseling Psychology; M.S. in
School Psychology
Number of graduates: 210
Guest speaker: M. Brinton Lykes, associate
dean of Boston College’s Lynch School of
Education. She spends much of her time in
Central America, Chile, Argentina, and
South Africa, where she studies the transitions
and aftereffects of war. In the United
States, she focuses on ways to help urban
immigrant middle school children deal with
community violence.
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