Newswise — Santa Clara University has chosen global leaders, who have dedicated their lives to humanitarian aid and human rights, to speak at its undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies.
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Ken Hackett, president of Catholic Relief Services, will deliver the commencement speech for Santa Clara University’s undergraduate class of 2010 on Saturday, June 12 at 8:30 a.m. at Buck Shaw Stadium.
“I’m looking forward to taking part in this very important day for graduating seniors,” Hackett says. “It’s a time when they can reflect on the last four years of their college career and some of the most important lessons they learned from their professors, fellow classmates, and their families.”
Hackett has led CRS since 1993, and oversees operations in more than 100 countries, with a global staff of nearly 5,000. His career with the agency began in Sierra Leone in 1972. He has served CRS in posts throughout Africa and Asia, as well as in a variety of positions at CRS headquarters. He was the regional director for Africa, guiding CRS’ response to the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85. He supervised operations in East Africa during the crisis in Somalia in the early 1990s. Read more.
Graduate Commencement Ceremony
Sakena Yacoobi, an award-winning pioneer who has improved the lives of millions of Afghan women through her Afghan Institute for Learning (AIL), will address Santa Clara University’s graduate students at their 2010 commencement ceremony on Friday, June 11. The commencement will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the University’s Leavey Events Center.
In attendance will be nearly 600 students receiving advanced degrees from the School of Engineering, the Leavey School of Business and Administration, and the School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries.
“I am delighted to speak to the graduates of Santa Clara University,” said Yacoobi. “Education has the power to transform, and with their strong foundation and values, SCU graduates can do great things to help others to change their lives.” Read more.
About Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,600 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master’s and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master’s universities, California’s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.
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