Convocation week is here!
Activities are now underway for this year's convocation. Click here for the Convocation 2011 website.
On Sunday, May 1, Father Charlie Cheverie, retiring UPEI chaplain, and Father Denis Grecco, Visiting SDU Scholar, con-celebrated Convocation Mass at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre for graduates, family, friends, staff, and faculty.
Members of UPEI's Class of 2011 will gather again in the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on Saturday, May 7, to share convocation day, the biggest event of the academic year. Almost 900 students, the largest graduating class on record, will receive their degrees and diplomas during two ceremonies, the first beginning at 10:00 a.m. and the second at 2:30 p.m.
Events organized by the student-comprised Graduation Committee begin Wednesday and include barbecues, games, and socials events right through to Saturday night. For details, click here.
Senior class awards will be presented at 12:00 noon following convocation rehearsal on Friday, May 6 at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Awards and recipients will be printed in the convocation program.
On convocation day, UPEI will confer honorary degrees upon Danny Williams, QC, former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador; Louis W. MacEachern, entrepreneur, community leader, and philanthropist; Teresa Mellish, the driving force behind the PEI-based, non-governmental organization, Farmers Helping Farmers; and Monique Collette, senior advisor to the Privy Council Office and former president of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. (See UPEI News Release.)
Williams will address the morning convocation where graduates will receive the following degrees: bachelor of business administration; bachelor of business administration (co-operative education); bachelor of business in tourism and hospitality; bachelor of education; bachelor of education (french immersion); bachelor of education (human resource development); bachelor of science in nursing; doctor of veterinary medicine; master of science, faculty of veterinary medicine; master of veterinary science; master of education; master of business administration; and doctor of philosophy.
Mellish will speak at the afternoon ceremony where graduates will receive adult connections in education certificates (ACE); public administration diplomas; engineering diplomas; and the following degrees: bachelor of applied arts in print journalism; bachelor of arts; bachelor of arts (honours); bachelor of child and family studies; bachelor of integrated studies; bachelor of music; bachelor of music education; bachelor of applied science in radiography; bachelor of science; bachelor of science (honours); bachelor of science (co-operative education); master of science, faculty of science; and master of arts.
Charlotte Coulson, from Kensington, who will receive her bachelor of business administration degree, will give the valedictory address in the morning, and Amanda MacKinnon, from Montague, who will be awarded her bachelor of science degree, will address her fellow graduates at the afternoon convocation. Macebearers at the morning and afternoon convocations, respectively, are doctor of veterinary medicine recipient, Margo Edwards-Milewski, from Santa Rosa, California, and Kyle Murnaghan, from Charlotteown, who will receive his bachelor of arts degree.
