Florida Southern College will hold 139th commencement event Saturday in Lakeland
Florida Southern College will hold its spring commencement Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland.
Who is graduating?
This will be the 139th commencement ceremony for Florida Southern.
The college expects to award about 450 undergraduate degrees, with 264 going to students from the School of Arts and Sciences, 105 from the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise, 68 from the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences and 15 from the School of Education.
Graduates represent almost all 50 states and seven other countries – Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Italy, Germany and Switzerland – FSC said in a news release. The school expects to confer 44 graduate degrees and seven doctoral degrees.
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Who is speaking?
The keynote speaker is John K. Adams, 1992 graduate of Florida Southern. Adams, CEO of Altus Fire and Life Safety, has 25 years of leadership experience in markets such as health care, medical/surgical products and distribution, the school said in a news release.
The senior speaker will be Katharine Grace Wall of Jacksonville, who is receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with minors in psychology and biology.
What else?
During the ceremony, Florida Southern will present the President’s Scholar Medal for superb academic achievement. It is awarded to recognize a student’s academic record and promise of future success, the release said.
As previously announced, The Ben and Janice Wade Outstanding Teaching Award was awarded to Shameka Shelby, department chair and associate professor of chemistry. The Honor Walk recipient is Nathalie Vanessa Moreno of Union, New Jersey.
The ceremony is open to graduates and ticketed guests and will be streamed live at www.flsouthern.edu/graduation.
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