Kansas City Area May 2012 Commencement
Saturday, May 12, 11 a.m.
Community of Christ Auditorium
1001 W. Walnut Independence, MO 64050
May 2012 Graduates: If you have any questions about your eligibility to graduate, please contact Jessica Nerad, diploma clerk, at jessica.nerad@park.edu or (816) 584-6274. Our sincerest congratulations to you on your accomplishments. Feel free to review the graduation handbook from the December 2011 ceremony for general information, graduation attire and procedures. This document will be updated in the spring to reflect information and details for the May 2012 ceremony.
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The Kansas City Area December 2011 Commencement ceremony was held at the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, Mo., on Dec. 10. Approximately 220 Park University undergraduates received their bachelor's degree and about 160 graduate students received their master's degree. Steven Youngblood, associate professor of communication arts, presented the keynote address. In his address, "Inciting Peace," Youngblood addressed how graduates can apply their education to more than just making money.
Youngblood is a two-time J. William Fulbright Scholar — going to Moldova in 2001 and Azerbaijan in 2007. He has taught in 12 countries for the U.S. State Department, the United Nations Children's Fund and People to People International. He has taught peace journalism in the Republic of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Turkey and Uganda. Youngblood directed and taught a comprehensive peace journalism project (with $270,000 in grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department) in Uganda from July 2010 to May 2011. He will direct and teach a peace media and counterterrorism project (with a $150,000 State Department grant) in Uganda from December 2011 to September 2012.
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May 2011 Commencement
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graduates.
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slideshow of photos and videos from the Commencement ceremony.
Keynote address by Jeanette Prenger, 2009 Park University graduate and founder and president of ECCO Select.
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December 2010 Commencement
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graduates.
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slideshow of photos from the Commencement ceremony.
Keynote address by Eugene A. Ruiz,
founder, shareholder and managing partner, Ruiz and Associates, and chair, Park
University Board of Trustees
Student address by Gabriel Ajak,
December 2010 business administration/finance graduate, and one of the “Lost
Boys of Sudan”
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May 2010 Commencement
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slideshow of photos from the Commencement ceremony.
Read the keynote address by
Ambassador Jason C. Yuan, representative of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to
the U.S.
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December 2009 Commencement
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list of graduates.
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slideshow of photos from the Commencement ceremony.
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