2 COMMENCEMENT 2020 BROWARD COLLEGE BROWARD COLLEGE President . Gregory Adam Haile, J.D. College Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Services . Dr. Marielena DeSanctis Senior Vice President of Workforce Education & Innovation . Dr. Mildred Coyne Vice Provost of Academic Affairs . Dr. Jeffrey Nasse Vice Provost of Student Services . Ms. Janice Stubbs A. Hugh Adams Central Campus President . .Dr. Steven Dunnivant and Vice Provost of Teaching Excellence & Learning North Campus President and Judson A. Samuels South Campus President . Dr. Sunem Beaton-Garcia and Vice Provost of Academic Resources District Board of Trustees Chair. Ms. Gloria Fernandez Vice Chair. Mr. Matthew Caldwell Trustee. Mr. Zachariah "Reggie" P. Zachariah, Jr. MISSION STATEMENT Transforming students’ lives and enriching our diverse community through academic excellence, innovation, and meaningful career opportunities. VISION STATEMENT Broward College will be a destination for academic excellence, serving students from local communities and beyond. The College will embrace diversity—student, faculty, staff, and business partnerships—and foster a welcoming, affirming, and empowering culture of respect and inclusion. The College will stand at the leading edge of technological and environmentally sound innovation, providing attainable, high-quality educational programs. Broward College will be recognized for its recruitment and retention of diverse, outstanding faculty and staff whose primary focus will be to promote the success of each individual student while supporting lifelong learning for all students. As a model post-secondary institution, the College will connect its students to diverse local and global communities through technical, professional, and academic careers. CORE VALUES Academic Excellence and Student Success: Achieving student success through high-quality, learning-centered programs and services while continuously evaluating and improving student learning outcomes that reflect the highest academic standards. This is accomplished by providing flexible educational opportunities accessible to all students, regardless of time or place. Diversity and Inclusion: Creating a community that celebrates diversity and cultural awareness while promoting the inclusion of all its members. Innovation: Developing and implementing the most emergent technologies and teaching/learning methods and strategies to create learning environments that are responsive to local, national, and international needs. Integrity: Fostering an environment of respect, dignity, and compassion that affirms and empowers all its members while striving for the highest ethical standards and social responsibility. Sustainability: Ensuring effective, efficient use of College resources while implementing fiscally sound practices and environmentally sustainable initiatives that can be modeled in collaboration with our community. Lifelong Learning: Promoting the educational growth and development of all individuals through a variety of postsecondary professional, technical, and academic programs and services. BROWARD COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT 2020 3 GRADUATION COMMITTEE Mr. Carlos Parra, Chair Dr. Lauren Adamo Ms. Shelia Fabius Dr. Jeffrey Nasse Ms. Jodi Brown Ms. Kimberly Adams Goulbourne Ms. Luz Negron-Alvarez Ms. Yolanda Brown Ms. Yordanka Griffin Dr. Julia Philyaw Ms. Daniela Circonciso Mr. Frank Kurz Ms. Stephanie Repaci Mr. Neil Cohen Ms. Karen Lee Murphy Ms. Jennifer Silverio Ms. Meaghan Connolly Mr. Craig Levins Ms. Alicia Smith Wroble Mr. Adam DeRosa Ms. Quakish Liner Mr. James Evans Mr. Jose Lopez COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY PROGRAM The National Anthem(The Star-Spangled Banner arr. Darmon Meader) . Dr. Jure Rozman Associate Professor of Music Welcome . Mr. Zachariah “Reggie” P. Zachariah, Jr. Broward College District Board of Trustees Student Speaker. Ms. Erika Noel Commencement Speaker. Ms. Thasunda Brown Duckett CEO, Chase Consumer Banking Special Remarks. Gregory Adam Haile, J.D. Presentation of Candidates to President . Dr. Marielena DeSanctis College Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Services Conferral of Degrees and Closing Remarks . Gregory Adam Haile, J.D. 2 COMMENCEMENT 2020 BROWARD COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Thasunda Brown Chief Executive Officer, Chase Consumer Banking Thasunda Brown Duckett is the Chief Executive Officer of Chase Consumer Banking. She is a member of the Consumer and Community Banking Leadership Committee. Chase is one of the largest U.S. providers of banking, lending, treasury, wealth management, and investment services. Duckett oversees a banking network with more than $750B in deposits and investments, 5,100 branches, 16,000 ATMs and more than 47,000 branch employees — including more than 3,000 financial advisors — serving 23 million households nationwide. From 2013-2016, Duckett was the CEO of Chase Auto Finance, one of the leading bank providers of auto financing in the country with a portfolio of more than $60 billion in assets and relationships with 75% of U.S. franchised automotive dealers. Under her leadership, Chase Auto Finance moved from #27 in the JD Power Dealer Financing Satisfaction Survey to #1 in Prime and Non-Prime. She broadened its dealer partnerships and launched Chase Auto Direct, the bank’s new direct-to-consumer business. Prior to Auto, Duckett served as National Retail Sales Executive for Chase Mortgage Banking, where she managed 4,000 mortgage bankers who provide home financing to customers across the nation. She was previously Mortgage Banking’s East Region Sales team for three years. She has also served as the Channel Executive of Bank Branch Integration and as Director of Affordable Lending and Emerging Markets. Before joining JPMorgan Chase in 2004, Duckett was a Director of Emerging Markets at Fannie Mae, where she led the implementation of national strategies designed to increase homeownership among Blacks and Hispanics across the country. Duckett has been recognized widely as a leading executive in the financial industry. She was named as a “Top 100 Leading Female Executive” by Automotive News; one of the most powerful women in banking by American Banker magazine; one of the 50 most powerful women in corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine and among the top most influential blacks in corporate America by Savoy magazine. Duckett is a founding member of the firm’s Women on the Move initiative and an Executive Sponsor of The Fellowship Initiative in New York City. The enrichment program, run by JPMorgan Chase, offers young men of color academic, social and emotional support to help them achieve personal and professional success. Duckett is originally from Texas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Houston, and an MBA from Baylor University. She is married and has four children. She and her family live in Connecticut. BROWARD COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT 2020 5 REGALIA In the medieval universities, students and teachers wore earned or granted, as for example: ARTS, white; SCIENCE, gowns indicating their status and scholastic achievements. golden yellow; EDUCATION, light blue; ENGINEERING, Today, European institutions still show great diversity orange; MUSIC, pink; LIBRARY SCHOOL, lemon yellow; in the specifications of academic dress, and American BUSINESS, drab; JOURNALISM, crimson; LAW, purple; colleges and universities adopted a system which all could THEOLOGY, scarlet; PHILOSOPHY, dark blue. Each hood follow. In 1895, at Columbia University, an intercollegiate is also lined in silk with the colors of the institution which commission drafted a uniform code for the use of caps, granted the degree. gowns and hoods. These standards, with few revisions, are still in effect. Broward College follows the Academic The appropriate cap for all degrees is the familiar black Costume Code. “mortar board.” A tassel, black or a color signifying the field of specialization, is worn hanging to the left of the Four academic degrees are generally recognized: the face. Those holding a doctor’s degree may wear a soft velvet associate, the bachelor, the master and the doctor. The cap of the color indicating their field of study, or with the associate degrees (associate in arts and associate in sciences) mortar board, they may wear a tassel in gold or in part of are offered by the standard two-year junior colleges. The gold thread. other three are conferred by universities and colleges. The bachelor’s or baccalaureate degree takes its name directly The mace, carried by the parade marshal, is a symbol of from the medieval practice of “bachelors” wearing a the authority vested in the college president. In medieval garland of bayberries. The master’s degree was equivalent times, it was a weapon of war which was effective against to a license to teach, and sometimes was followed by the the strongest armor and was used chiefly by knights. express words Licentia Docendi. The doctor’s degree, when Maces were often borne by a royal bodyguard to protect earned by study, indicates advanced study and independent the king in processions, but in the course of time (by the research in a specialized field of learning. Honorary degrees 14th century), they assumed more ceremonial functions are granted for meritorious service and for distinction in and lost their warlike appearance. A mace is carried in public or private endeavor. academic and ecclesiastical processions, particularly in English-speaking countries. Those holding a bachelor’s degree wear a black gown