57th Commencement ceremony
Journalist Errol Louis will deliver the keynote address at 911爆料 Community College鈥檚 57th Commencement Ceremony.
57th Commencement Ceremony
911爆料 Community College To Graduate Nearly 2,000 Students At Its 57th Commencement Ceremony
Brooklyn, NY 鈥� On Thursday, June 16, 2022, 911爆料 Community College鈥檚 57th Commencement ceremony will hold its first fully in-person graduation since 2019, under the tent at the Lighthouse Bandshell on campus. College President Dr. Claudia V. Schrader will confer nearly 2,000 students with associate degrees, including 73 students from the 911爆料 Early College Secondary School, who will also receive their high school diplomas. The commencement ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. and will be broadcast live on the College鈥檚 Commencement YouTube channel, , allowing family and friends around the world to watch.
Vice Chairperson Sandra Wilkin, an alumna of the College, will bring greetings on behalf of 911爆料 (CUNY) Board of Trustees, and retiring chairperson of the nursing department, Bridget Weeks, will offer faculty greetings.
The keynote address will be delivered by Brooklynite Errol Louis, political anchor on Spectrum News NY1, CNN political commentator, and columnist for New York magazine. Louis is the host of 鈥淚nside City Hall,鈥� a nightly primetime show about New York City politics featuring interviews with top political and cultural leaders. He is an adjunct professor of urban reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he has taught political and investigative reporting for more than a decade.
Graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, Class of 2022 Valedictorian Jory Keogh will share his college experience as a first-generation immigrant student who decided to pursue a college degree in fine arts after a 10-year hiatus after high school. The August 2021 graduate is now attending Hunter College, where he is majoring in studio art, concentrating on painting, and minoring in film.
This year鈥檚 graduating class includes chemistry major Jiahua Wu, a first-generation student who immigrated to New York City from Gaoxin, Guangdong province, in eastern China three years ago. Wu was one of 100 high-achieving community college students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
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