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UW-Green Bay welcomed a record crop of degree candidates to the ranks of official alumni at spring commencement 2015. A total of 975 students completing degree requirements in May or August were eligible to participate; about 725 robed up and marched in the ceremony that drew a crowd of nearly 5,000.
There were plenty of Keifer Sykes fans in attendance when the senior from Chicago crossed the stage to receive his bachelor’s in Communication at the Kress Events Center Saturday afternoon. Sykes got enthusiastic applause...
Chancellor Gary L. Miller presented Craig Dickman, UW-Green Bay Class of 1982 and founder and CEO of Breakthrough Fuel, with the 2015 Chancellor’s Award, the University’s highest community honor. The presentation was made on...
Jared J. Spude of Sturgeon Bay, the May 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Student Award presented by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Alumni Association, received an extended ovation from an audience of nearly 5,000...
The individual designated as “commencement marshal” has the honor of leading the platform party and graduate processional into the hall to begin the ceremony. For the last decade, that’s been Prof. Cliff Abbott of...
Seven nurses became the first graduates of UW-Green Bay’s online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Leadership and Management Health Systems program at the May 2015 commencement. The degree provides advanced coursework in leadership...
Two years ago, UW-Green Bay experimented with an on-site master’s program in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning at the Plymouth School District. Two years later more than 15 educators from Plymouth were eligible...
Psychology grad Olyvia Kuchta spoke on behalf of her graduating class at UW-Green Bay commencement on May 16 at the Kress Events Center. She shared her personal story of not being certain she would...
With a record number of graduates, you’d naturally expect a record number of creatively adorned caps to go with those graduation gowns. And you’d be right. See the latest in mortarboard fashion.
• The planned video streaming of Saturday’s commencement would have been a first, but technical problems kept the University from getting the feed to the internet. Live video was screened throughout the ceremony on...
