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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU Commencement Programs 2012 2012 Commencement Program Seattle niU versity Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/commencementprograms Recommended Citation Seattle nivU ersity, "2012 Commencement Program" (2012). Commencement Programs. 89. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/commencementprograms/89 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Commencement Programs by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. C ii I, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY A Tradition of Excellence Commencement I KeyArena I June 10, 2012 a Vol All ~k\\\, ski There is no more powerful affirmation that we, as a university, are fulfilling our mission as when you, our graduates, go forth to do wonderful things. 4 V I ... , A ••;i_. I To the 2012 Graduates of SeattLe University, Please accept my personal welcome to you as graduating students, family and friends at this Seattle University Commencement in KeyArena. The faculty, staff and administration share your joy on this day. It has been our privilege to educate you. You are graduating this year at a very exciting and most challenging time. We are already into the presidential election season in which our country is debating some of its most important values. Our economy is at last showing some signs ofslow recovery and is taking on a new shape in which you will be involved in your work. This is the year of the Summer Olympics when we will all enjoy seeing representatives of the whole world come together in peace, friendship and competition. We are in the midst of the "Occupy Movement" which asks us the question who is being left out in our society. We have become familiar with globalization, the technology explosion and international environmental concerns. What a time to be commencing from Seattle University with your undergraduate or graduate degree! You are more than a match for these exciting and challenging times. You are, in fact, the makers of new times. That is a bold statement, but one that I make with great confidence. The excellence of this university c academic programs now runs through you, and it is this preparation combined with your optimism, commitment and willingness to take risks in service to others that gives me hope. Congratulations and thank you for the privilege of being involved in your education. Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J. President UNDERGRADUATE Order of Events . 6 Core Honors Program Graduates ...............10 Undergraduate Speaker................................7 College of Arts and Sciences.......................11 Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Albers School of Business and Economics ... 14 Outstanding Service Award...........................8 Matteo Ricci College ................................... 1 5 Provost's Award............................................8 College of Science and Engineering ............16 President's Award.........................................8 College of Nursing......................................17 University Honors Program Graduates...........9 Army ROTC Commissioning Cadets ............18 * - j - 1 GRADUATE Order of Events...........................................20 College of Educaction................................. 23 Honorary Degree ........................................21 College of Arts and Sciences....................... 24 Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Albers School of Business and Economics ... 25 Outstanding Service Award.........................21 College of Nursing...................................... 26 Educational Leadership Graduate College of Science and Engineering............ 27 Dissertation Titles........................................22 School of Theology and Ministry................. 27 ABOUT SEATTLE UNIVERSITY Founded in 1891 Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic institution teachers is rivaled only by their commitment to generating new that today is the most racially and culturally diverse, the most knowledge as scholars. In partnership with their students, Seattle genuinely urban, and the largest multidisciplinary independent University's dedicated faculty and their colleagues create a vibrant, university of the Northwest. educational experience that comes alive in the classroom, campus Inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition and the Jesuit and community, and develops character and leadership. philosophy of education, Seattle University forms independent As SU President Stephen Sundborg, Si., has often said, critical thinkers rooted in the humanities and open to finding God "Only the alumni of Seattle University can tell us whether we in all things. Responding to the Jesuit imperative that calls for "the are fulfilling our mission." It is through their actions that our service of faith and the promotion of justice," Seattle University alumni most clearly attest to the power of an SU education. students are challenged to address issues of poverty, injustice, They are leaders in banking and business, in publishing and politics, discrimination, violence and environmental degradation with nursing and nonprofits, engineering and education. Today, we competence, compassion and creativity. welcome our newest graduates into a special group of women At the heart of every undergraduate, graduate and professional and men who are excelling in their professions and working to program at Seattle University is an intellectually rigorous build a more just and humane world. education delivered by excellent faculty whose attentiveness as THE HISTORY OF GRADUATION CAP AND GOWN The academic apparel—gown, hood, and cap—donned today by entirely ornamental, draped over the shoulders and down the back. both faculty and graduates reminds us that in this commencement Some say the academic cap is a sign of the freedom of scholarship ceremony we celebrate our students as accomplished scholars which evolved from the cap worn in ancient Rome by freed slaves. who now join the ranks of their professors and others who have Scholars first wore it as a symbol of the master's degree and it earned their university degrees. Indeed they become part of a existed in various forms; stiff, soft, square, and round with a tuft in cadre whose membership stretches back to medieval Europe. the center. Today's tassel is believed to be an elaboration of the tuft. The origins of academic dress date back to the 12th and 13th England's Oxford University originated the mortarboard style cap centuries when European universities were first taking form. worn by our graduates today. The ordinary dress of the scholar, whether student or teacher, was When academic costume came to America in 1754, styles varied the dress of a cleric; with few exceptions, the medieval scholar widely as they still do in Europe today. In the late 19th century an had taken orders, made vows, and perhaps been tonsured. Gowns Intercollegiate Commission met at Columbia University and adopted were mandated by religious affiliation but were also a necessity a code of academic dress which regulates the gowns and prescribed in the unheated university buildings. Hoods at first covered the the colors which represent the different fields of learning. tonsured head but eventually a skull cap became the normal Today the American Council on Education's, Committee on headpiece and the hood evolved into a cape that could be pulled Academic Costumes and Ceremonies is charged here in the states up during unpleasant weather. Eventually the hoods became with the standardization of American academic app arel .* *American Council on Education. 2009 C. I 1 kk lad aft UNDERGRADUATE CEREMONY t I 11 _ $ I wo I) UNDERGRADUATE CEREMONY PROCESSIONAL SPEAKER INTRODUCTION Pomp and Circumstance Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., STD Edward Elgar President Grand Marshal STUDENT SPEAKER David W. Madsen, PhD Brenda Maria Trejo Rosas Assistant Marshals Bachelor of Arts, major in Cultural Anthropology Philip L. Barclift, PhD Bachelor of Arts, major in Environmental Studies Mark Cohan, PhD Cuni Laude Robert J. Deltete, PhD ColerreHoption, PhD PRESENTATION Stacey M.Jones, PhD OF AWARDS Paulette Kidder, PhD Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Teresa W. Ling, PhD Outstanding Service Award Susan B. Matt, PhD, JD Provost's Award Agnieszka Miguel, PhD President's Award Jeffrey S. Philpott, PhD Christina A. Roberts, PhD Robert Rutherford, PhD PR ES E N TAT ION Daniel R. Smith, PhD 0 F DEGREES Michael J. Spinetta, PhD Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., STD President CO N VOCATION ALUMNI WELCOME Isiaah Crawford, PhD Provost Susan Vosper, BA '90, LEMBA 10 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations NATIONAL ANTHEM Madeleine Sayre Cary B E N E D I C T 10 N Bachelor of Arts in Business Andrew Richard Arteaga Administration, major in Management Bachelor of Arts, major in French Cum Laude Summa Cum Laude INVOCATION RECESSIONAL Jean Baptiste Gasanana Ganza, S.J. Hallelujah, Amen Master of Business Administration George Frideric Handel Mosaic Brass Quintet WELCOME Isiaah Crawford, PhD Provost REMARKS FROM THE P R E S I D E N T Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., STD President UNDERGRADUATE SPEAKER Timothy Egan Timothy Egan is one of our nation's most highly esteemed authors and journalists. For 18 years, Egan was a Seattle-based reporter for The New York Times, covering everything from the Exxon Valdez oil spill to the O.J. Simpson trial to the collapse of small-town America in the Great Plains. Egan was part of a team of Times reporters who won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for their series, "How Race Is