Honorary Degree Recipients
Due to the rapid enrollment growth of the campus undergraduate and graduate students will be receiving their degrees at different ceremonies for the first time. Approximately 350 graduate students will receive their degrees on Saturday, May 24 and 1,200 undergraduates will receive degrees on Sunday, May 25.
During the undergraduate ceremony in the Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater honorary degrees will be awarded to:
- Ray Suarez, the senior correspondent for The NewsHour and our guest speaker.
- New Bedford native and Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and wife Joan Jacobs.
- Southcoast Hospitals Group CEO Ronald Goodspeed.
- Retired UMass Dartmouth Dean of Students Donald Howard.
The graduate student ceremony will be built around three speakers: an innovator external to the campus, a graduate alumnus/a innovator, and a graduate student.
- Dr.Onesky Aupont
- Yong Zhang
- Master of Fine Arts candidate Jennifer Ling Datchuk
