​Welcome to Commencement 2016!

ACSSJ would like to congratulate The Class of 2016 on their successful graduation. Here are some highlights of the commencement ceremonies. Click on pictures to see more information about the commencement ceremonies.

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Avila University

May 19th
454 Graduates
​Speakers: Michael Hudson
​​Undergraduate class member and 2016 Avila University Ariston Award recipient,
and Victoria Anderson
​graduate class member

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Chestnut Hill College

May 14th, 89th Commencement
​Nearly 400 Graduates
Speaker: Kevin M. Dougherty 
​Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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College of Our Lady of the Elms

May 21st, 85th Commencement
486 Graduates
Speaker: James O'Connell
President of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

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Fontbonne University

May 9th
​567 Graduates
Speaker: Batya Abramson-Goldstein
Retired executive director, St. Louis Jewish Community Relations Council

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Mount Saint Mary's University

May 9th
701 Graduates
Speaker: Lucy Jones
Noted seismologist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

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Regis College

May 7th, 86th Commencement
708 Graduates
Speaker: Sister Simone Campbell, SSS
 Executive Director of NETWORK ​

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St. Catherine University

980 Graduates

May 21st: Graduate College
Speaker: Mary Morrell Mackbee
Principal of Central High School and Saint Paul Public Schools' first female, and first African American, secondary school principal
 
May 21st: College for Adult and Applied Learning
Speaker: Ramona Ann Parker
Assistant dean of medical and interprofessional education and associate professor at the University of the Incarnate Word 
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May 22nd: College for Women
Speaker: Haben Girma, J.D.
Staff attorney, Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, California and first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School 

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St. Joseph's College

​Brooklyn
May 27th, 97th Commencement
357 Graduates
Speaker: Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Eighth Congressional District of New York

Long Island
97th Commencement
May 21st: Undergraduate
776 Graduates
Speaker: Sister Helen Kearney, CSJ, Ph.D
President of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood

May 25th: Graduate
271 Graduates
Speaker: Diane M. Pfadenhauer, M.S., J.D., SPHR
Attorney, human resources professional, and  assistant professor, Graduate Management Studies program, SJC Long Island