5,667 Students Eligible to Receive Degrees at IUPUI Commencement Ceremony
A total of 5,667 students will be eligible to receive degrees at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis's (IUPUI) commencement exercises on May 11, 2008.
Some 4,559 students will receive degrees from Indiana University and 963 from Purdue University. This number also includes graduates from the IUPU Columbus, where there are 104 IU graduates and 41 Purdue graduates.
IUPUI commencement ceremonies will be held Sunday, May 11 at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Halls A-B-C of the Indiana Convention Center. IUPUI Chancellor Bantz will preside at both ceremonies. IU President Michael McRobbie will be on the platform for both ceremonies to confer IU degrees. Purdue President France A. Córdova will do the same, but only at the afternoon ceremony.
A total of 16,327 students will be eligible to receive degrees during Indiana University commencement exercises on all IU campuses in May. There also are a total of 1,888 Purdue University degrees that will be conferred during IU commencement ceremonies.
IUPUI will award an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to Russell Edgerton at its commencement.
Recognized as leading expert on undergraduate higher education for the past 30 years, Edgerton has served in positions that have allowed him to articulate and call attention to the principles, values and goals of American institutions of higher education. Dozens of practices now taken for granted, including learning communities, first-year experiences, peer review of teaching, and assessment of student learning, can be traced directly to Edgerton's leadership.
Before coming to his current position as director of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning in 2000, Edgerton was director of the Pew Charitable Trusts Education Program from 1997 to 2000. Before that time, he served for 20 years as president of the American Association for Higher Education.
In that position, Edgerton visited many campuses, including IUPUI, and offered inspirational advice on how to cultivate and improve undergraduate education. Using a metaphor of himself and AAHE as Paul Revere, riding through the night to bring issues to public attention, he emphasized creating a supportive learning environment, fostering students' motivation to persist in achieving academic goals, and promoting faculty efforts to engage and inspire students.
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