Crowds watch a commencement speaker during the 2008 ceremonies.
Record Number of Grads for Commencement 2009
Cal State Fullerton Prepares for May 23-24 Ceremonies
More than 11,000 grads and candidates for graduation are eligible to participate in Cal State Fullerton’s May 23-24 commencement ceremonies — the largest ever for CSUF. Attendees are expected to number more than 50,000 family members and friends during the weekend festivities.
Keynote speakers for the universitywide celebrations will be U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Jack O’Connell, state superintendent of public instruction. O’Connell, a 1973 Cal State Fullerton graduate, will address the Saturday, May 23, ceremony, while Solis, an alumna of Cal Poly Pomona, is scheduled for Sunday, May 24.
Both commencement ceremonies begin at 8 a.m. on the sports fields north of Titan Gym. College and department exercises and celebrations will follow at various locations throughout campus, 800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, 92831. (Times and locations listed below.)
Those eligible to don caps and gowns include January graduates, plus candidates for degrees awarded in May and August. Together, the 2,287 January graduates and candidates for graduation exceed 11,000.
Tickets are not needed for the all-university ceremonies at 8 a.m., but are required for admission to all college and department exercises/celebrations.
The ceremonies will be broadcast live on the Internet and may be viewed by visiting the Cal State Fullerton Web site: www.fullerton.edu. The ceremonies also will be televised live on Channel 98 in Fullerton, Placentia, Santa Ana and Seal Beach.
Leading the campus faculty marshals will be Mohinder S. Grewal, professor of electrical engineering and the university’s Outstanding Professor Award recipient for 2008-09. Faculty marshals, by college, are:
- College of the Arts - Susan Hallman, professor of theatre and dance
- Mihaylo College of Business and Economics -Chiranjeev Kohli, professor of marketing
- Communications - Shelley Jenkins, lecturer in radio-TV-film; Kenneth Tom, associate professor of human communication studies, and Fred Zandpour, professor of communications
- College of Education - Joann C. Carter-Wells, professor of reading
- College of Engineering and Computer Science - John Clymer, professor of electrical engineering
- College of Health and Human Development - Kenneth Ravizza, professor of kinesiology
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Craig Ihara, professor of philosophy
- College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics - Christopher R. Meyer, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Cal State Fullerton 2009 Commencement
(College and department exercises/celebrations start at about 9:45 a.m.)
Saturday May 23
- Main Ceremony
- lawn north of Titan Gymnasium 8 a.m.
Keynote speaker Jack O’Connell, state superintendent of public instruction - College of the Arts
- tent west of tennis courts
- Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
- Economics, Entertainment/Tourism, Entrepreneurship, Information Systems and Decision Sciences, International Business, Management, Marketing — Titan Stadium
- College of Education
- Titan Gymnasium
- College of Engineering and Computer Science
- lawn west of Engineering Building
- College of Health and Human Development
- Child and Adolescent Studies — lawn south of Mihaylo Hall
- Public Health, Health Science, Human Services and Kinesiology — lawn north of Titan Gymnasium
- Nursing — courtyard east of Titan Shops
- Counseling — Little Theatre, Clayes Performing Arts Center
- Social Work — Mackey Auditorium, Ruby Gerontology Center
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics — west entrance of Humanities-Social Sciences Building
- Liberal Studies — west side of Titan Gymnasium
- Modern Languages, TESOL and Latin American Studies — Portola Pavilions, Titan Student Union
Sunday, May 24
- Main Ceremony
- lawn north of Titan Gymnasium 8 a.m.
Keynote speaker — Hilda Solis, U.S. secretary of labor - Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
- Accounting, finance and master’s candidates — lawn north of Titan Gymnasium
- College of Communications
- Communications — Titan Stadium
- Human Communication Studies — Portola Pavilion, Titan Student Union
- Radio-TV-Film — courtyard east of Titan Shops
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Sociology and Gerontology — Titan Gymnasium
- Philosophy, Afro-Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies — Little Theatre, Clayes Performing Arts Center
- Political Science, Public Administration and Criminal Justice — tent west of tennis courts
- History and European Studies — west entrance of Humanities-Social Sciences Building
- Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography — Lawn south of Mihaylo Hall
- American Studies, Comparative Religion — Meng Concert Hall, Clayes Performing Arts Center
- Psychology — west side of Titan Gymnasium
- Women’s Studies — Mackey Auditorium, Ruby Gerontology Center
- College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- lawn west of Engineering Building
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