UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Driven t:o Discover" Sunday,MARIUCCI ARENA May 19, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES > FROM THE DEAN CONGRATULATIONS, CLA GRADUATE! We come together today—family and friends, students and faculty—to celebrate a major milestone in your life. You have studied hard to achieve the goal for which we honor you—a degree from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations on your achievement! Whatever your major—economics or art, English or Chinese, psychology or American Indian studies—you have been privileged to learn from some of the finest professors in the country. We, in turn, have been honored by your presence, and by the ideas and experiences that you have brought to our college. We are grateful to you for entrusting your education to us, and we hope that, as you draw on the knowledge that you have acquired in CLA, you will find yourself well prepared for the challenges ahead. Your education in the liberal arts has provided you with the requisite skills to pursue any career that you choose. Wherever your path may lead, your CLA education will manifest itself through your skill in logical and persuasive communication, the critical assessment of information, quantitative analysis, and your knowledge of local and global cultures. In CLA, you have learned not to be intimidated by complexity or ambiguity, not to accept convenient and superficial solutions, not to confuse information with knowledge, but to think clearly and logically and to act on your ideas with conviction, wisdom, and courage. Our mission as a leading public research and educational institution has been to ensure that you have the knowledge to realize your highest ambitions. We have prepared you for your responsibilities to yourself, your communities, and our world. As you commence the next phase of your life, please remember that your future is also our future. In the years ahead, you will gradually assume the roles that we currently have, and you will be called upon to lead and to serve. Please also remember to create opportunities for the generations of students who will follow you so that they too will one day have the chance to realize their dreams as you have had today. I hope that you will remain proud of what you have achieved at the University of Minnesota and that you will stay connected to us as alumnae and alumni of our great university. It has been our pleasure and privilege to have you in our college, and we look forward to the many accomplishments that you will have as a CLA alumnus. Please accept my warmest congratulations and my heartfelt wishes for your continued success. Sincerely yours, James A. Parente, Jr. Dean, College of Liberal Arts Order oF EvENTS > ORDER OF EVENTS PROCESSIONAL “Pomp and Circumstance,” Edward Elgar/D. Baldwin CLOSING REMARKS Provost Karen Hanson AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL Please stand to join the vocalist in singing “America the Beautiful”: HAIL! MINNESOTA Please rise and join in singing “Hail! Minnesota” O, beautiful for spacious skies, in honor of our alma mater: For amber waves of grain, Minnesota, hail to thee! For purple mountain majesties, Hail to thee, our college dear. Above the fruited plain! Thy light shall ever be America! America! A beacon bright and clear. God shed his grace on thee, Thy sons and daughters true And crown thy good with brotherhood Will proclaim thee near and far. From sea to shining sea! They will guard thy fame And adore thy name, PROVOST’S WELCOME Karen Hanson Thou shalt be their Northern Star. Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost RECESSIONAL “Alla Battaglia (from Concerti, 1587),” Andrea Gabrieli STUDENT REMARKS Jillian Ryks, B.A. Strategic Communication, summa cum laude❖ ✣ Breana Bright, B.A. Sociology Please remain seated until the academic procession has left the arena floor. ❖ denotes 11:00 a.m. commencement ceremony KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION Provost Karen Hanson ✣ denotes 4:00 p.m. commencement ceremony KEYNOTE ADDRESS Eric W. Kaler President, University of Minnesota PRESENTATION OF MUSIC PROVIDED BY UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF MUSIC CANDIDATEs For DEGREES Eric W. Kaler, President Conductor: Timothy Diem (Assistant Director of Bands, Marching Band Director); Pianist: Laura Edman (DMA 2009); Karen Hanson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Vocalist: John De Haan (Associate Professor, Voice) Robert McMaster, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Featuring the University of Minnesota Brass Ensemble student musicians. Serge Rudaz, Director, University Honors Program and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jennifer Windsor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Michal Kobialka, Associate Dean for Faculty Gary Oehlert, Associate Dean for Planning Alexander Rothman, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research❖ Carolyn Liebler, Assistant Professor, Sociology✣ Candidates will proceed across the stage as they are presented. CONFERRING OF DEGREES Regent Clyde Allen❖ Regent Richard Beeson✣ follow us @CLACOMMENCEMENT #CLAGRADS2013 #UMNPROUD — share your own pictures and memories! 2 3 > cEREMONy AND tradiTiONS > AcADEMic costuME Academic gowns date back to the 14th century, when they served two functions of nearly equal importance: to indicate the academic rank of the wearer and to keep the scholar warm in the drafty stone halls of academia. The markings, cut, and colors of the modern-day academic costume—cap, gown, and sometimes hood—indicate the academic degree, the field of study, and the institution that granted the degree. At commencement ceremonies those who already have a doctoral degree wear hoods. Degree candidates wear the gowns appropriate for the degrees they are about to receive, and new doctorates are hooded on stage. Bachelor’s degree gowns are black and untrimmed. A tassel hanging from the mortar board worn on the head is color-coded by college at the University of Minnesota. The College of Liberal Arts tassel is white. Honors graduates wear a medallion adorned with a maroon and gold ribbon. The College of Liberal Arts hosts two spring commencement ceremonies. Each ceremony is expected to Master’s degree gowns, black and untrimmed, have pointed sleeves. Doctoral gowns in the United States last approximately three hours and includes a procession of faculty, students, regents, and other guests. traditionally have been black with velvet front facings and crossbars on the sleeves but in recent years a number of universities have adopted gowns of distinctive school colors. 11:00 A.M. CEREMONY The Minnesota hood, which may be worn by anyone with a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, > ProcessiON is black with maroon chevron on gold. Each institution has its own pattern of colors on the hood, worn around Mace: Louis Mendoza, Associate Vice Provost of Equity and Diversity the neck and down the back of the gown. The length and shape of the hood identify the most advanced degree the American Flag: Albert Tims, Journalism & Mass Communication wearer has earned, and the velvet edging shows the field: blue for doctor of philosophy, light blue for doctor of Regent Flag: Susanne Jones, Communications Studies education, and pink for doctor of musical arts. Minnesota Flag: Walt Jacobs, African American & African Studies > MAjORS represented: > THE MAcE American Indian Studies; Asian Languages & Literatures; Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Chicano The University of Minnesota mace was carried for the first time in 1961 by Regents Professor of Physics Alfred Studies; Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology; Classical Civilization; Communication Studies; O.C. Nier at the inauguration of President O. Meredith Wilson. Art professor Philip Morton designed the mace: a Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature; English; French Studies; French & Italian Studies; crystal sphere four inches in diameter surmounted by the North Star, symbol of the state of Minnesota, on a solid German Studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Greek; Hebrew; Italian Studies; Jewish aluminum handle set with the University regents seal. Studies; Journalism; Latin; Linguistics; Psychology; Religious Studies; Russian; Scandinavian Lan- guages & Finnish; Scientific & Technical Communication; Spanish Studies; Spanish-Portuguese Studies; Studies in Cinema & Media Culture 4:00 P.M. CEREMONY > ProcessiON Mace: Walt Jacobs, African American & African Studies American Flag: Bruno Chaouat, French & Italian Regent Flag: Kathryn Pearson, Political Science Minnesota Flag: Elizabeth Boyle, Sociology > MAjORS represented: Acting; African American & African Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Art; Art History; Architecture; Astrophysics; Biology, Society, & Environment; Chemistry; Child Psychology; Computer Science; Dance; Economics; Geography; Geology; Global Studies; History; Individual- ized Studies; Individually Designed Interdepartmental Major; Mathematics; Microbiology; Music; Philosophy; Physiology; Physics; Political Science; Sociology; Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; Statistics; Theatre Arts; Urban Studies 4 5 THe UNIVERSITY oF MinneSOTA THe COLLEge oF LIBERal ARTS Driven to Discover The University of Minnesota, ranked among the two years, and statehood was still seven years away. The With some 17,000 undergraduate and graduate has led to a worldwide recession. Justice and equality, nation’s top public universities, reflects the state of school was built on little more than the pioneers’ faith students, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) prepares more belief and truth, the beauty of the written