Master’s Degree
Friday, June 12, 2009, 9:30 a.m.
Convocation Center
Tickets are not necessary for this ceremony.
Candidates must assemble in the Convocation Center garage area no later than 8:45 a.m.
Signs will be placed throughout the garage area indicating each college location. Candidates will form a single line behind the appropriate sign. Candidates will receive a name card in the garage area which they must keep with them until they are called to the platform for recognition.
The Provost will introduce all master’s degree candidates for conferral by the President of the University. Each Dean will then request the candidates for master’s degrees by college to proceed to the platform under the direction of the marshals. Candidates will then hand their name card to the READER as they approach the platform. Candidates will proceed immediately up the steps where upon they will be greeted by their Dean and the President of the University. Candidates then proceed down the adjacent ramp where upon they will be handed a Commencement folder as they return to their seat.
Link to Graduate Commencement Registration
Doctoral Degree
Friday, June 12, 2009, 9:30 a.m.
Convocation Center
Tickets are not necessary for this ceremony.
Candidates must assemble in the Convocation Center garage area no later than 8:45 a.m.
Signs will be placed in the garage area indicating college locations. Candidates will form a single line behind the appropriate sign. Once candidates have been led to the arena, they will be introduced for conferral by the Provost. As candidates’ degrees are conferred by the President of the University, they will be led by a marshal together with their faculty escort (if they have one) to the platform area. Candidates will then hand their name card to the READER as they approach the platform. As soon as candidates’ names are announced, the candidates and their mentors will proceed up the ramp to be greeted by the academic Dean, hooded by the their mentor and the Provost. Candidates and mentors then proceed across the stage to be congratulated by the President of the University then down the opposite ramp to receive their Commencement folder and return to their seats.
Regional Campus Students
Ceremony Information
Chillicothe Campus: Recognition of Graduates Ceremony
Friday, June 12th at 7:30 p.m. at the Shoemaker Center
Eastern Campus: Honors Convocation
Friday, June 5th at 7:00 p.m. at the Health and Physical Education Center
Lancaster Campus: Honors Convocation
Friday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m. at the Gymnasium
Southern Campus: Graduate Recognition Ceremony
Friday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m. at Shafer Courtyard
Zanesville Campus: Recognition Night
Friday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m. at Littick Gymnasium
For additional information, please contact your campus representative.
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree
Saturday, June 6, 2009, 10 a.m.
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium
Tickets are not necessary for this ceremony
8:30 a.m., Graduates and mentors will assemble in Galbreath Chapel.
10:00 a.m., Commencement ceremonies will begin in the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.
Following the ceremony, light refreshments will be served at the Baker University Center.
· College of Osteopathic Medicine Commencement Web Site
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2009 Graduate Commencement Speaker
Patricia A. Weitsman
Patricia A. Weitsman, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science. She did her undergraduate work at Indiana University, spending one year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994.
Dr. Weitsman’s areas of research and specialization are in international relations, with an emphasis on international security and international relations theory. She held fellowships at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. She is co-author of The Politics of Policy Making in Defense and Foreign Affairs (1993), co-editor of Towards a New Europe (1995) and Enforcing Cooperation (1997). Her last book, Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War, Stanford University Press, 2004, was a finalist for several major book awards. Her work has been published in numerous edited volumes as well as journals in the field, including Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Comparative Political Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Global Society, and Origins, as well as in a number of newspapers, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, and the Columbus Dispatch.
Dr. Weitsman was nominated and elected to the governing board of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association in 2006. In 2009, she became Vice Chair of the Section and will become Section Chair in 2011. She is currently working on a short monograph on coalition warfare, as well as a larger project on war and identity. She has received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award and was twice named University Professor. In 2008, she received the Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award.
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