Close to 1,900 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students will be awarded degrees at the commencement at New Jersey City University (NJCU) this week.
There will be two ceremonies—one at 11:00 am for the graduates from the College of Professional Studies and the School of Business, and the second one at 3:00 pm for the graduates of the Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe College of Education and the Willima J. Maxwell College of Arts and Sciences. Such ceremonies are often made known throughout the community with banner printing.
Sue Henderson, president of NJCU, will preside over the ceremonies and greetings from the trustees will be conveyed by Carlos Lejnieks, the president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson and Union Counties, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the university.
Bob Menendez, a United States Senator, will speak at the ceremony in the morning. Menendez is chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has earned a reputation across the country for his international leadership in the Senate. Leader M. Teresa Ruiz, Majority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate, will speak in the afternoon. Ruiz became the first Puerto Rican elected to the Senate and has fought for equity in the educational systems of the state.
Both commencement exercises will take place tomorrow, June 2, at the Prudential Center in Newark.
