NEW GRADUATES
IN-PERSON COMMENCEMENT RETURNS
In-person commencement ceremonies returned to St. Thomas in May. While the ceremonies looked different than in years past to adhere to COVID-19 protocols, the same St. Thomas personal attention was present. Arranging all the details for socially distanced, but meaningful commencement ceremonies took in-depth planning by university administration, faculty and key student representatives. The
university held multiple, smaller and shorter ceremonies with a set number of guests per graduate. For those who couldn’t attend in person, the ceremonies were livestreamed and recorded. In addition, students who chose
not to participate in person were able to send in their photo to be included virtually. There were a total of eight commencement ceremonies for the nearly 3,000 graduating associate degree, undergraduate and graduate students.
MORR I SON FAM I LY COL LEGE OF HEALTH
SCHOOL OF NURSING GAINS MOMENTUM The School of Nursing in the Morrison Family College of Health continues to make progress toward launching its proposed bachelor’s and master’s nursing programs. In addition to receiving the green light from several governing bodies to proceed with development of the programs, the school has hired inaugural faculty, staff and clinical coordinator positions. “We are confident we will begin enrolling undergraduate and graduate nursing students in the fall of 2022, on target with our original timeline,” said Dr. MayKao Y. Hang, vice president and founding dean of the College of Health.
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