1,756 Eligible to Graduate
A total of 1,756 graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to participate in the 2004 commencement exercises May 21-23. Of those, 443 are undergraduates from the College of Arts and Sciences, 181 are undergraduates from the McLaren School of Business and Management, 297 are graduate students from Arts and Sciences and Business, 233 are from the School of Education and the School of Nursing, 376 from the College of Professional Studies, and 226 from the School of Law. A commencement Mass and awards dinner will be held May 20.
Speakers for this year’s ceremonies include Monsignor Richard Albert, founder of the St. Patrick’s Foundation, a social services network in Jamaica, who will speak at the commencement for arts and social sciences graduates. He will also receive $1 million from the Opus Prize Foundation during the ceremony as well as an honorary degree from USF. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will speak at the undergraduate School of Business commencement; George McGovern, former senator and presidential candidate and currently an ambassador to the United Nations, will speak to graduates of the College of Professional Studies; Oral Lee Brown, founder of Oakland’s Oral Lee Foundation, will speak at the School of Nursing commencement; and Leo T. McCarthy, former California Lieutenant Governor, will speak at the commencement for graduate students of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business.
All commencement exercises will be held in St. Ignatius Church. Tickets are required.
Entrepreneur Program in Top Tier
The School of Business and Management’s entrepreneurship program was rated among the country’s top programs with a regional emphasis in a recent issue of Entrepreneur magazine. More than 825 entrepreneurship programs were evaluated last fall for the rankings.
USF was ranked in the magazine’s top tier of entrepreneur programs at schools categorized as ?regional? in reputation. Thirteen programs were included in that category. In addition, the university was ranked among the top 10 regional programs by program directors and alumni in a separate voluntary survey conducted by the magazine.
Child Obesity Panel
Five experts on child health and nutrition will discuss childhood obesity in the United States at a panel discussion in McLaren Center, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. Titled “Childhood Obesity: What Can You Do?” the discussion is aimed at educating parents and the public on prevention programs and health policy. The panel is sponsored by the McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good and USF’s committee on children and youth.
Panelists include Mary St. Jonn Seed, USF assistant professor of nursing; Philip R. Ziring, medical consultant with the San Francisco Department of Public Health; Bonnie Y. Modugnu, nutritionist for McDonald’s Corp.; Stefan Harvey, assistant director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy; and Miguel Villarreal, director of food and nutritional services for the Novato Unified School District.
Confessions of a Muslim Reformer
Irshad Manji, an acclaimed journalist, author, TV personality, and media entrepreneur based in Toronto, will speak about her new book The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change on May 13 at 7 p.m. in McLaren 251. Her talk is sponsored by the Swig Judaic Studies Program.
A refugee from Idi Amin’s Uganda, Manji will discuss her vision of how the United States and its allies can help Muslims undertake a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas.
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