Buffalo State College: May 21

Buffalo NY

11 May, 2022

1:52 PM

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Press release from Buffalo State College: May 9, 2022 Buffalo State College will confer degrees on roughly 1,500 undergraduate and 725 graduate students during its 150th Commencement celebration on Saturday, May 21, in the college Sports Arena. Degree candidates will be honored at 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. baccalaureate ceremonies and a 5:00 p.m. graduate ceremony. The 9:00 a.m. ceremony recognizes degree candidates from the School of Arts and Sciences and Individualized Studies. The 1:00 p.m. ceremony celebrates degree candidates from the School of Education and the School of the Professions. The 5:00 p.m. ceremony honors candidates from the Graduate School. The following graduates of the Class of 2022 will be honored with the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in recognition of their academic and extracurricular achievements, leadership, and service: Kassius J. Broadus, Sara J. Hillman, and Joana C. Leamon Cody B. Crist will receive the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence Special Award: Military Service. Nicholas M. Stanford will deliver the baccalaureate student address as the recipient of the President's Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Student. Solomon Joseph will deliver the graduate student address as the recipient of the President's Medal for Outstanding Graduate Student. Letitia A. James, the 67th attorney general for the State of New York, will deliver the Commencement address. An experienced attorney and public servant with decades of legal work and a long record of accomplishments, she is the first woman of color to hold statewide office in New York and the first woman to be elected attorney general in New York State. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of Lehman College and Howard University School of Law. This press release was produced by Buffalo State College. The views expressed here are the author's own.