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Willard Jenkins receives an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Ģý

Ģý Confers Honorary Degree Upon Alumnus Willard Jenkins

Ģý conferred a Doctor of Letters honorary degree to alumnus Willard Jenkins for his “extraordinary contributions in promulgating jazz music and its importance to American culture and in advancing Ģý.”

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Spring Commencement 2024

IN A FLASH: Scenes From Commencement 2024

Exuberant celebrations and tears of joy punctuated one of the biggest weekends of the year at Ģý as the university welcomed its spring Class of 2024 graduates. 

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Karamu 2024

IN A FLASH: A Celebration of Graduates

Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración De Los Graduados is an annual tradition celebrating all of Ģý's graduating African American, Native American, Latinx, Hispanic and Multiracial undergraduate and graduate students.

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Kaitlyn Werner of Bonita California and her peers who started college in 2020 will graduate in 2024 after enduring the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandemic Graduates 2024: Starting College in 2020 Took Grit and Resiliency

Ģý students who started college during the COVID-19 pandemic in Fall 2020 have shown great grit and resilience as they graduate in the class of 2024.

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May 4 Commemoration 2024

IN A FLASH: The Spirit of May 4

This year's May 4 Commemoration remembered the fallen and recognized the spirit of activism that is part of Ģý's history and the university's foundational values. 

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Dean Kahler, shot and paralyzed on May 4, 1970, rings the Victory Bell at the 54th Commemoration of the shootings.

Ģý Commemorates May 4, 1970

Against the backdrop of a new generation of student activism, the Ģý community gathered to reflect and remember the student protesters killed and wounded on May 4, 1970.

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Chris Post speaks at Jerry M. Lewis Lecture Series

Why Geography and Landscape Matter

Commemorative landscapes and how they help produce a sense of empathy and place and foster a connection to help us learn from our past was a theme explored Friday, May 3, by Ģý Professor Chris Post, Ph.D., speaker for the annual Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series and Luncheon.

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Candlelight Walk and Vigil 2021

IN A FLASH: The Ways We Remember

Tonight, the annual candlelight walk and vigil continues a 53-year tradition as part of this week's May 4 Commemoration.

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Sophomore Ivory Kendrick, who lost his dad in high school, was recently elected as a USG senator for the College of Public Health.

He Believed He Could, So He Did: Ivory Kendrick is Elected USG Senator for College of Public Health

In the Fall 2023 sophomore Ivory Kendrick said he wanted to be a senator in University Student Government (USG). He made it happen.

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Chief Dean Tondiglia retires after 43 years on Ģý Police Department.

Chief Says Over and Out to Lifelong Career with Ģý Police Department

Ģý Police Chief and Director of Public Safety Dean Tondiglia wasn’t legally old enough to be a police officer when he was hired by the Ģý Police Department. 

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