UNM Commencement Set for Dec. 14 at The Pit

One of the nation’s lead­ing Latina jour­nal­ists, Maria Hino­josa, who has helped tell America’s untold sto­ries and brought to light unsung heroes in Amer­ica and abroad for 25 years, will deliver the keynote address at the UNM fall com­mence­ment on Fri­day, Dec. 14, 6 p.m. at Uni­ver­sity Arena, The Pit.

Approx­i­mately 1,750 stu­dents are pro­jected to receive degrees from UNM’s Albu­querque and Extended Uni­ver­sity cam­puses as fol­lows: 1,135 bachelor’s degrees, 375 master’s degrees, 59 doc­tor­ates, 23 juris doc­tor­ates, six med­ical doc­tor­ate, five grad­u­ate cer­tifi­cates, five edu­ca­tional spe­cial­ist degrees and one phar­macy doc­tor­ate. An offi­cial degree count is deter­mined fol­low­ing Commencement.

At UNM-Gallup, 67 asso­ciate degrees and 18 cer­tifi­cates; at Los Alamos, 10 asso­ciate degrees; at Taos, 14 asso­ciate degrees and two cer­tifi­cates; and at Valen­cia, 50 asso­ciate degrees and four cer­tifi­cates, are pro­jected to be awarded.

Hino­josa, who recently launched The Futuro Media Group with the mis­sion to pro­duce multi-platform, community-based jour­nal­ism, has won top hon­ors in Amer­i­can jour­nal­ism includ­ing four Emmy’s, the John Chan­cel­lor Award, the Studs Terkel Com­mu­nity Media Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Report­ing on the Dis­ad­van­taged, the Edward R. Mur­row Award from the Over­seas Press Club for best documentary.

UNM Pres­i­dent Robert G. Frank will give open­ing remarks and con­fer degrees and UNM Regents Pres­i­dent Jack Fort­ner will greet grad­u­ates on behalf of the UNM Board of Regents. UNM regents, admin­is­tra­tors, deans and fac­ulty are among the plat­form group.

Uni­ver­sity Sec­re­tary Vivian Valen­cia is chief mar­shal. Don­ald “Duffy” Swan, pres­i­dent of the Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion, will offer clos­ing remarks.

The pre­lude and pro­ces­sional will be played by UNM Bands. Rebecca Hell­bom, soprano, and 2012 UNM fall grad­u­ate with a Bachelor’s of Music in vocal per­for­mance, will sing the national anthem and alma mater.

Col­lege, branch and depart­men­tal con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­monies are sched­uled Dec. 13–15.

For more infor­ma­tion, visit: con­vo­ca­tion sched­ule.