2000 Winter Commencement Video, College of Graduate Education and Research, College of Liberal Arts, College of Business and Economics, and College of Science and Mathematics

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(music) (music) I'm John Hager, Provost and vice president for academic affairs of the university.

Welcome to the first of Towson University's two fall commencement ceremonies. To open our ceremony, Chana Colley, a senior in vocal music, will lead us in singing the national anthem.

She will be accompanied by the Towson University Brass Quintet, Mary Bisson, Michael Bunn, Luis Engelke, David Perkel and Phil Snedecor. Will you please rise and remain standing following the singing

of the national anthem? By the Dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming

And the rockets' red glare The bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there. May we observe a moment of silence in memory of members of our university community who died this past year.

Anthony De Sesser, a professor, psychology department. Eleanor Brooks, graduating senior sports management. Lauren Foley, senior occupational therapy, Miss Mary Catherine Call, professor emeritus, Department of history.

Sean Kelly, junior geography department. Phillip Winters, sophomore, education department. Thank you and please be seated. Several of our guests here on stage will participate in this

afternoon's program and will be introduced later. However, I would like to recognize our other distinguished guests at this time by asking them to stand when I call their names and remain standing until all names

have been called. Please withhold your applause until everyone's name has been called. We have with us this afternoon Doctor Jack Bruckman, chair of

the University Senate, Doctor Tim Sullivan, president of the Faculty Association, the American Association of University Professors at Towson University, and Miss Tracy Goode, past president of the Black Student Union and a

director in the Student Government Association. Also with us this afternoon are Joanne Kate Glasser, Esquire, Executive Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Doctor Paul Parker, Vice president for Student Life, and

Doctor James Fielder, Vice president for administration and Finance. Serving as marshals are MJ McMahon, associate Provost, and Doctor David Zhang, professor in the Department of Kinesiology.

Representing the honorary degree committee are Mr. Ray Castaldi, associate Dean in the College of Business and Economics, and Dr. Ned Britt, professor in the Department of Kinesiology.

Our thanks also to Doctor Cheryl Cooper of the Department of Communication Science and Disorders and her practicum students from Catonsville Community College who are sign interpreting the ceremony this afternoon, and to the members of

the faculty who are serving as faculty and student marshals for the academic procession. Faculty serving as faculty marshals are Richard Hilton, Martin Horrock, Jan Sinat and Preacher Tavakuwat.

Faculty serving as student marshals are Nicole Dombrowski, Lawrence Froman Barrette Jane Donald Kopka, James Smith, Tad Watanabe and Wing Chun Wong. We also have with us on stage faculty and staff from the 17

departments in the four colleges represented at this ceremony and staff from all divisions of the university. We thank you all for being with us this afternoon. I now call upon Doctor Hoke Smith, President of Towson

University, to make his welcoming remarks. Doctor Smith, it's a pleasure to welcome you, the graduates, and the members of your families and friends who have supported you during your years at Towson.

This is the time for recognition of your achievements and their achievements. I would like to recognize one individual who's in the audience who has helped support higher education and making those

achievements possible. United States Senator Barbara Mikulski, I understand, is sitting down here. Every commencement is a time of transition, of both ending and

beginning. They often take place in periods that are noted for their rapid change, and each time we have a commencement there is a tendency to think, well, this is unprecedented.

One of the things I like about Baltimore, one of the buildings, is the Baltimore and Ohio Museum because it marks both one end of Tom Thumb's race with the horse and one end of Morris's first Telegraph message.

Two events would change the concept of space and time that humans had worked with for centuries and move Baltimore to a position of leadership. We live now in a period in which the change is no less rapid and

we are living in an economy which is unprecedented in the importance of information and knowledge and the ability to use information and knowledge. It is a period in which we have, as one of the publications said

this week, a great deal, a great number of 20 something billionaires or at least millionaires, and which we have increased poverty. It is a period in which we must understand both technology and

the human condition if we are to prosper individually and make an appropriate contribution to our families, our culture, our employers and our nation. I think that the education you have received at Towson has

prepared you for this. The liberal arts base, the knowledge of the sciences, and the skills and your chosen profession prepare you to continue learning in a period of rapid change.

For your achievements in doing that, I congratulate you, but I also want to charge you to use your skills not only to live joyously, but to contribute to your family, to your employer, and to the society in the United States, which shoulders both the

family and our economic system. So I charge you to go forth and use your education appropriately and skillfully with a sense of joy, both for your good and the good of your fellow human beings.

Congratulations. Thank you. Doctor Smith. I now call upon David Nevins, a member of the University System

of Maryland Board of Regents, who will bring greetings from the board. Mr. Nevins.

President Smith, Senator Mikulski, distinguished guests, proud families and honored graduates, it is my great pleasure to bring you greetings and congratulations from the University System of Maryland Board of Regents.

In 1866, an institution known as the Maryland State Normal School opened with a mission to prepare teachers for Maryland's public school system. Its first class consisted of just eleven students.

Now, over 130 years later, Towson University enrolls almost 10,000 full time and nearly 3,000 part time undergraduates, as well as more than 2,000 graduate students, all in a multitude of programs.

It enrolls students from more than eighty countries and has repeatedly appeared in U.S. News and World Reports listings of America's Best Colleges graduates.

Towson University is an alma mater you will be proud of. Today you may feel as if you have come to the end of a long journey, and the prize awaits you on this stage. But the fact is, I'm afraid that your time at Towson has just

been the packing and planning and preparation for the real adventure, and this diploma, which you shall soon receive, is a passport that will help smooth the way and serve as a very fine credential.

Having the opportunity this afternoon to represent the regents at this commencement is especially gratifying for me personally. As an alumnus of this great institution and as a former

president of both the Student Government and, some years later, the Alumni Association, I know first hand what a very special place Towson University is, and I certainly hope most of you feel the same way because

you are now in many ways not leaving this institution, but married to it. For whether you spend 4 years here or in some cases, as your parents well know, several more, your fortunes and the fortunes

of Towson University are forever linked. Every job you every seek, every resume you ever prepare will list Towson as your alma mater. Therefore, your support of this great institution as it

continues to grow and prosper and its ongoing support of you only makes practical sense. Because unlike other types of marriages, for better or for worse, this tie can never be broken, nor should you want it

to. And in my own case, having been affiliated with this institution for more than 25 years under three different names, I can tell you without equivocation that I'm glad this tie will go

on for years to come. And I'm proud to say I think this institution and I have advanced one another, and hopefully all of you will soon be able to say the same thing.

And on a very personal note, as a member of the Board of Regents, we rotate our commencement appearances among the many institutions within the University system. And because I'm not sure when I will have an opportunity to

appear at a Towson University commencement again, I want to do one more thing, and that is to personally and publicly recognize the efforts of Doctor Hoke Smith, who has served as our leader these past 20 years and who has announced his

retirement effective 1 1/2 years from now. Will you please join me in recognizing the tremendous efforts of our President, Doctor Smith, in building this fine institution?

And so, on behalf of the Board of Regents and in recognition of Towson University's outstanding faculty, administration and student body, it is my great pleasure and honor to bid you our newest graduates.

Congratulations, may you achieve your life's goals, bring happiness to others, and let me add, try to be nice to your neighbors while you're at it. Thank you very much and congratulations.

Thank you, Mr. Nevins. It is my pleasure now to introduce Rifka Wendy Goldman, who is graduating from the College of Business and

Economics. After concluding a year of study in Israel, Miss Goldman enrolled and completed an accounting degree within 2 1/2 years at Towson University.

Her desire to excel is proven through her repeated academic accomplishments. She has been placed on the Dean's List continually and is a member of Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Honor Society, Beta

Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, and the Golden Key National Honor Society. She has been honored by the Financial Executives Institute as well as the Maryland Association of Certified Public

Accountants for her academic excellence in accounting. In addition, Miss Goldman has been awarded with the Deloitte and Touche Achievement Award and ACPA Review Scholarship. She has shared her knowledge by actively participating in the

tutorial program on campus. Miss Goldman is employed employed at the American Express Tax and Business Service and plans to take the CPA exam in November.

Miss Goldman. Thank you Doctor Hager, President Smith, Dr. Chait, Regent Nevins, Dr. Little, honored guests, faculty, family and friends.

I am honored to be selected as a representative of our Class of 1999 and feel privileged to share my thoughts about the past several years at Towson and the future beyond this graduation celebration.

As I contemplate my college experience, a particular story comes to mind. At the commencement of one particular freshman Class, a management professor announced that he would be demonstrating

an important concept through a short experiment. He placed on his lecturn a transparent container that was constricted at the top. He placed in that container large rocks until no more large

rocks could fit. He then asked the class, is this container full? The students immediately responded yes. The professor smiled and reached down to pick up a bag of small

pebbles. After emptying the bag into the container, the professor again questioned the class. Is this container now full?

This time the students hesitated to affirm so quickly, but after the professor poured sand into the container, the students were again satisfied that the container was filled. We, of course, being graduates, know the real answer.

He poured water into the container and finally filled the vessel completely. The important concept drawn from this narrative is that we as college students have learned to discern beyond the first

presentation of an idea. Regardless of our specific discipline or curriculum, our professors have taught us the skill of creative and critical thinking.

In that spirit, I would like to propose another interpretation to this parable. Surely, one could suggest, just to use water to fill the vessel completely the first time, without the need for any other

material. If, however, we could think of those large rocks as representing life's major significant goals, the successively diminutive materials to become activities

of less consequence. Thus, if we do not insert the large rock goals in first, we may never be able to fit them in. We will not have the space-time, or energy to incorporate them

later in our milieu. It is so easy to become distracted and let the years slide by without us getting closer to fulfilling our goals. A life filled with water, sand, or even little pebbles of

peripheral activities instead of significant achievements will be a life of failing to consummate our dreams. As an accounting graduate, I'd like to further analyze this episode using my education of time management and offer some

advice. Of course, this time will be charged at my soon to be released graduate billable rate.

One aspect of my scenario necessitates that we initiate the task of selecting what those rocks represent. To do this, we must take a beginning inventory, an inventory of our current accomplishments.

One accomplishment that each of us can be proud of today is earning a college education. With this level of education, however, comes responsibility and accountability.

A college education means that each of us has an obligation to contribute to our society. A college education requires that we be role models through promoting and practicing ethical behavior.

Therefore, each rock that you plan on placing into that job should reflect our new status as educated individuals. Now that we understand our current position and our core competency, each of us personally needs to formulate

what those rocks symbolize. For many of us, they include building a family, nurturing friendships, volunteering in our communities, and evolving into distinguished professionals.

But how do we ensure that these goals remain a priority and are being accomplished throughout our lifetime? Well, as an accountant, my advice is to take a periodic inventory.

How much closer are we to placing another important rack into that container? How have we benefited society? Are we living up to the standards of an educated

individual throughout life? We need to pause, reflect, and renew. Each new year gives us a prime opportunity to ask these questions and reevaluate ourselves.

Every year we need to compose a strategic plan of action to accomplish or enhance just one more goal so that we do not let life float away on perfunctory or superficial activities. As we begin this new Millennium, let us reflect together on the

accomplishments for which Towson University helped us to attain. In accounting, there is a formal statement which presents a snapshot of our current position.

It is termed the balance sheet. On one side of the balance sheet, we list our assets. By training us in our individual disciplines, Towson University has provided us with the knowledge and skills to pursue a

respectable profession. However, through this college journey, we have acquired other skills and insights into ourselves. We have learned to stretch our capabilities beyond that which

we thought were our mental and physical limits. We have learned to be creative and to think outside the stipulated perimeters. We have learned to cooperate to writing group papers and

presenting team projects. Each of these are now assets that can be transferred to our individual balance sheets of life. The balance sheet also details how we attain those assets.

This segment of the statement is divided into two sections, that which we owe to someone else a liability and that which we ourselves have contributed equity. The liabilities on our balance sheet are lengthy.

We owe a debt of gratitude to each of our professors. I personally would like to thank Doctor Steedle and the entire accounting faculty. I also must identify my specific debt to Professor Bookoff for

his extra confidence and support of my efforts. I also owe a colossal debt to my parents, and I don't just mean the tuition bills. Although I can never fully repay you for your support, time,

energy, and love, I promise to always endeavor to be a continual source of pride. I would also be remiss if I do not thank my siblings from and my grandmother for their support and love as well.

And most important, I could not stand here today without thanking God for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for granting us the intellect and the resources to reach this stage in our lives.

The other half of the accounting equation is our own individual contributions. Each of us has spent the past several years in intense cerebral labor of exams, class presentations, and projects in

order to participate in this graduation exercise. Today, I congratulate each of you on your significant achievement. This completes the balance sheet as of January 9th, 2000.

But what new components will be added to next year's balance sheets and every ensuing gear? How can we add value to our lives and society as a whole in this new Millennium?

Let us solidify our visions by jotting them down, reviewing and renewing them. Often. Our charge as the last graduating class of the century

is to pack our container of life with meaningful rocks. That is goals, goals which indicate our education has indeed been internalized, goals upon which we can build the future.

Thank you and keep your containers full. Thank you, Miss Goldman. At this time, I would like to call upon the President of the Towson University Alumni Association, Mr.

Gerry Gaeng, who will give remarks to the Class of 1999. Thank you, Doctor Hager. Members of the Class of 1999, I bring you greetings on behalf of the more than 85,000 Towson University alumni who have

preceded you across this stage. Some only a few months ago in June, some many decades ago, most of us somewhere in between. Perhaps more than any other group represented on the stage

today, we alumni are uniquely able to understand what this moment means for you in the years of hard work, research, testing, and intellectual rigor that went into it. Not to mention the equally arduous challenges of actually

getting registered in the correct courses and finding a parking place on campus. Your fellow alums salute you for your perseverance and dedication in all these undertakings, great and small.

And just as we congratulate you on your achievements, I want to seriously join with you in honoring and thanking the people behind you and around you, namely the parents, the spouses, the family members, the friends who made this achievement of

yours possible through their moral, financial and emotional support. Will you join me in in honoring and thanking them now, having preceded you all across this stage, we alumni know something

about what lies ahead. There will be jobs, yes, parents, they won't get jobs. And with them the reality that all the hard work here is going to beget more and harder work.

There'll be perhaps an untimely realization by you that the time that you had here was really very, very good indeed. And perhaps there will be fewer opportunities than you've had here at Towson to be a part of something that's at once bigger

than yourself. Something that's high minded, challenging and fun at the same time. Whatever your future experience will be, whatever you do,

wherever you go, I urge you to hold on to those good parts of what you had here. And I'm here to assure you that Towson's interest in you as people does not end here today.

And I don't want your participation in the Towson community to end here today. In fact, today you join us as a member of our Towson University Alumni Association.

Who are we? We're lawyers, we're teachers, we're Hollywood actors, we're TV anchors, we're business CEOs, we're government officials, healthcare providers, to name just a few.

We live in Los Angeles, we live in New York, we live in Philadelphia, in Atlanta, we live in Asia, we live in Europe, and everywhere in between. We are everywhere, we are proud of each other, just as we are

proud of you, the 1999 graduates, and we're proud of our association with Towson University. You see, we know that one another's achievements, the achievements of yourselves, the achievements of future students

and the successes of this university enhance the value of all of our degrees and therefore benefit all of us. So welcome to the Alumni Association. You're going to be hearing a lot about its programs, events, and

committees in the near future through different mailings and publications that we'll send you. I hope that you'll use the Association in these programs and chapters across the country and events to stay in touch not

only with each other, but with this faculty, with the administration, and with the next generation of students. We will try to do our best to keep you informed about what's going on here at Towson.

And we want to know from you what you all are doing. See, as alumni, we are enriched by each other's achievements and by Towson's. We're in a very real sense of family.

Continue, please, to count on us and we will count on you. Come back whenever you can and and share your successes with us. So graduates, congratulations, welcome, stay in touch.

You'll always be family at Towson. Ernest Boyer, a former president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, wrote that quote. Higher education and the larger purposes of American society are

inextricably intertwined. A commitment to service, as well as teaching and research, was never more needed than now. Higher education has more intellectual talent than than

any other institution in our culture” Towson University recognizes this intellectual talent extended through professional service provided by members of the faculty, staff, and administration through an annual President's Award.

President Smith established the annual President's Award for distinguished service to the University. The award, provided by the President's Club, includes a check for $1000 and a commemorative silver bowl.

The award is given to an individual who has dedicated 20 or more years of service to higher education at Towson University and who has, in keeping with the concept of Ernest Boyer, made an important contribution to higher education

and to the metropolitan region through teaching, scholarship and participation in university affairs. In presenting the 19th Annual President's Award for Distinguished Service to the University to Joyce Curry

Little, I shall ask President Smith to step forward. And what Professor Little step forward, too. Joyce Curry Little Your extraordinary career at Towson University began in 1981 when you joined the faculty.

Following 16 years at the Community College of Baltimore and teaching positions at several other institutions, you are the founding chairperson of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, a post you held from 1984 to 1987 and from

1990 to 1994. You spearheaded efforts to culminated in Towson University's programs accreditation by the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, making Towson the first, and thus

far the only Maryland public institution to receive CSAB accreditation. An acknowledged woman computer pioneer, you work first in the aerospace industry doing experimental computational work

in a wind tunnel. You then turn to the development of computing courses for higher education, and more recently you have focused your attention on developing courses in computing ethics and professional

responsibility for computer scientists. You served on two major national task forces to develop a code of ethics, first for the Association of Computing Machinery, then for the software engineering community to the

Computer Society of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers. You publish paper. Your published papers examine topics ranging from software

engineering to curriculum to computing ethics. Since 1995 you have been on five international working groups, Barcelona, Istanbul, Birmingham, Jerusalem and Upsala of the International Federation of the Information Processing and the

Association for Computing Machinery. You are 1000 University's only only Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and his only Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

You were one of six women to receive the National Woman Pioneer and Computing Award, presented in 1997 in Silicon Valley at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

He recently served on Towson University's Y2K Committee and his Middle States Accreditation Task Force, and you are one of its elected representatives to the Council of University System Faculty.

In 1993, the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences honored you as his outstanding faculty member, Professor Little. Your commitment to your discipline and your energetic

work on behalf of Towson University and its students are an inspiration and example to us all. I am very pleased to present you with this 2000 Presidents Award for the Distinguished Service.

Congratulations and thank you from all of us. Thank you President Smith, and thank you to all my colleagues on the faculty here at the University and congratulations to all of our graduates and a special hip, hip parade to all

those parents out there who've helped you get where you got. I'd like for you to know how very much this award means to me. It is, it is so wonderful to be recognized by day-to-day

colleagues, especially those who nominated me for this and evaluated me and spoke for me. They know indeed the good times and the not so good times, not just from afar but up real close, having been there through

the work and having seen the accomplishments along the way, and in fact seeing some of the scars and some of the bruises along the way as well. It has been a number of years getting to this point and I do

consider this the highlight of my career. In spite of other honors, this one from my institution means the most to me. I was invited to give a few comments to the graduates and to

give some perspective on how I got here. And in fact, my personal history runs almost like the history of society itself, from low tech to high tech, with many diversions all along the way.

I grew up on a cotton farm in the Louisiana Delta country, born to a farmer who was also an auto mechanic and his housewife. I was a depression baby and so became my dad's helper and almost everything he did, including putting the tractor

together whether it needed it or not, every winter so it would be ready in the spring. So all along the way I became one of a team carrying water out to the workers, out to the field hands until I was old enough to

become one of them myself. Having worked in all of that area. We also did a lot of playing and my dad was an athlete. He played high school basketball and baseball and in fact I give

credit to him for a lot of the really good things that happened to me and to my sister. He in fact built us a full length basketball court in the cow pasture to specifications and then invited practically

everyone from the Township to come and play on weekends. So my sister and I competed with some of the best, mostly men, and we learned a great deal about sports and teamwork and the value of athleticism to our lives.

So since my mom and dad wanted me to go to college, what did I want to do? Of course I wanted to be a basketball coach. That was my ideal.

So I got an offer for a scholarship to go into Mississippi because Louisiana had no women's basketball teams in a competitive way, and yet my dad declined to let me go because it was too far from home.

Of course I was upset. I was angry. Later years, it came to me about how much it meant to my dad to have me stay closer to home.

And in fact, in years past, of all the experiences that we've had, I think the athletic experience was one of the most meaningful to me as I learned a lot about being a team player, about how you can lose your own self in working towards a larger

goal and in how to. In fact, when I had to give up physical education as a major, got to fight while lying down in a hospital bed, my career changed because of an illness.

And of course, I took my mathematics minor and made it my major. And so I became a woman mathematician. Little did I know that made me attractive to the computing

industry, which was just getting started. And so as a result, I got an early invitation to participate in computer work in aerospace. Most of our work that we have done here at the university

dates from the late 70s and early 80s, where we moved from having a computer facility that was a state network to having local computer facilities on campus with real close communications with those other places in the state.

And so it was really gratifying when I came here to bring my Apple Two computer from home. And you computer graduates remember the Apple Two, I'm sure you've heard me talk about it before, but bring my Apple Two

computer from home. And we gave workshops for our administration. And in fact, it resulted in President Hope Smith make placing the 1st order for personal computers on this

campus. And of course, he got the first one he should. He's our leader, so we moved into what we called our Information Age initiative on campus, and we are actually

still in it. It has continued. The university has done so many wonderful things to move us ahead in the Information Age that it is so gratifying to

watch these things come and to see them moving us towards the future. But there are problems with this massive shift to an electronic society, and in fact, we face decisions almost every day about

privacy or about safety or about cyber terrorism, about choices and priorities. We will see computer chips embedded in almost everything, including construction materials for our buildings and including

in our physical body parts. We face drastic change in corporations and we can see some of century old businesses being wiped totally out by the new electronic era.

So we must not forget that these tools, even though they're so very important in our life, are just that. They are tools when we face difficulties and have challenges with our family and our friends, when we are serving as

caregivers to our parents or to our aunts and uncles, when we help someone through a trying experience, facing radiation treatment with cancer, for example. It is then that we look at this and realize that we must always

analyze our use of these tools and their impact and the role we allow them to take in our lives. We must not yield to just using them because they're there. We must not allow them to delude us into forgetting that we are

physical human beings living on a beautiful earth with many glorious features to protect. We must not let information technology replace our societal community, nor we may we allow it to change our civility

towards one another. It must not lead us into becoming isolated individuals. One of the biggest challenges, I think, of the new Millennium and for you, our graduates, is to control and manage this

electronic environment so that it will protect our physical world. I'd like to thank my family, my husband John, my sons Robert and John Junior, and especially the Towson University faculty and my

colleagues, and leave you with one bit of advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of my favorite quotations. To be a success, you need to laugh often and much. You'd like to win the respect of intelligent people and the

affection of children. You'd like to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, and to leave

the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded.

Thank you for the honor, Towson University, and for the privilege of doing work I love. The honorary degree is awarded to a member of the Academy who has made a significant contribution to higher education

or a member of the business community who has made a notable contribution to the University, or to a member of the local community who has been recognized as a major contributor to the welfare of that community.

So the awarding of the degree, the Doctor of Humane Letters, goes through a rigorous process in which one person is selected and recommended by a University committee, forwarded to the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, and voted on

by the Board of Regents. Doctor Smith. I have the honor of presenting Doctor Richard P Chait, the candidate for the honorary degree, the Doctor of Humane

Letters. Richard P Chait, you are widely recognized as one of this nation's foremost authorities on academic tenure and governance and higher education.

As such, you have for years been in great demand wherever these issues are examined and discussed, from national conferences to consulting, as scores of US colleges and universities.

A prolific writer, you have published 16 books, book chapters and monographs, as well as 34 articles that have appeared in leading journals. Your essays addressing subjects ranging from thoughts at 33 to

affirmative action on college campuses have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Baltimore Sun. In the 27 years that you were awarded your PhD in Educational

Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, you have served on the faculties of the Pennsylvania State University, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Maryland, College Park.

During your years at the University of Maryland, you also served as Director, Center for Higher Education Leadership and Governance, and is Executive Director, National Center for Post Secondary Governance and Finance.

Since joining the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 1996, you have further enhanced an already prominent role in promoting the scrutiny of academic tenure and governance in our nation's institutions of higher

education. Your funded research has included projects undertaken with grants from the Lilly Endowment. The US Department of Education and the Kellogg Foundation You

currently serve as principal investigator in the 19 in on the $1,900,000 project on faculty appointments for the Pew Charitable Trust. In 1998, you were elected chair of the Board of Directors for

the American Association for Higher Education. Opposed, you will hold through this year. Doctor Chait. A hallmark of your distinguished career has been your quest to

enlighten the discussion of sensitive issues such as tenure and governance on college and university campuses. In recognition of your commitment to embrace controversy and seek relative reconciliation, and with

gratitude for your unique grasp of the complexities of higher education, it is my privilege to bestow upon you the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. Would you please come forward along with the members of the

committee? Thank you. President Smith, Senator Mikulski, Regent Nevins, faculty and staff colleagues, especially dear friend Ned Britt, honored

guests, parents, relatives, but most of all graduating students. I am truly touched and genuinely grateful for the honorary degree that I have been awarded by Towson University, an institution I have long admired both as a member of the Academy

and as a resident of Maryland for more than 10 years. As George Burns once remarked when he was awarded a ceremonial medal a few years ago, I really don't deserve this. But then again, I have arthritis, and I don't deserve

that either. Thank you very much for this extraordinary tribute. When I was invited to speak today, I did not need any reminders that the best speeches are of short length because I

was right. Thank you, Thank you. There's more. I didn't need any reminders because I still have fresh in my

mind a student evaluation from a class I taught just a few years ago. The anonymous comment from this student read as follows. If I were stricken with a fatal disease and I only had 15

minutes left to live, I would want to spend that time in Professor Chait's class because it would seem like an hour. OK, here's the deal. Here's an 8 minute speech that will not seem to you like a 60

minute sermon. No student here will be surprised to learn that I have never been a model for FUBU, Abercrombie or Old Navy, nor do I own any clothes that bear any of these labels.

And as I'm regularly reminded by my by my 21 year old daughter, I have a closet full of old fashioned notions and out of fashion clothes. And yet, I still dare to give you some advice today about what

to wear. Just look at us all decked out in the costume of the Academy. The long gown that never falls right, the cap that never sits right, the tassel that either goes on the right side or the

left side, but who can remember? And the hood that seemingly on its own, always turns inside out, right behind your back. If you were to step off the Towson campus dressed this way,

let's face it, at best a passerby might toss you 1/4. At worst, the authorities would whisk you away for psychological evaluation. But here in this auditorium this afternoon, you look fine.

And that's my first bit of advice to you Know where you're going and dress right for the occasion. However, as smart as you look today, that's how foolish you would look tomorrow, a week from today, or six months from now if

you strolled around this campus in cap and gown. This weird attire works only two to three days a year, Which leads to my second bit of advice. Timing is everything.

Pick your spots, choose your battles, and weigh your opportunities carefully. Even on this commencement day. Even if you never left this auditorium, you would still look

silly in academic regalia if no one else followed suit. But because you all agreed to dress this way, the occasion becomes still more special, even as each of you melds more or less anonymously into the crowd.

You don't stand out individually, but we do stand for something collectively. We stand for the value, the honor, and the traditions of higher education and for the community of scholarship.

And from this observation emerges my third bit of advice to you know when to blend in and know when to stand out. Recognize that sometimes, like today, we actually depend on one another to conform in order to ensure that we each shine.

Just imagine how much less momentous this occasion would be if we were all not dressed the same. This is not to say never be different. There are, I suspect, some colorful adornments, some

visible, some concealed to the garb that you are wearing. There may even be a few clever and heartfelt messages atop some of your mortar boards, and there will no doubt be various gestures, hoops and hollers when you rise to accept your degrees.

These are the touches that give life, energy, diversity and humor, and should be encouraged and cherished for those reasons. But what they all have in common, what makes each one work, is that every personal touch is just that.

It is the genuine extension of a single individual, entirely consistent with who you are, and a way of communicating something about yourself. You do that this afternoon, in small ways, with accents and

flourishes that are distinctive but not disruptive. Today, the welfare of the whole requires that we downplay the idiosyncrasies of the parts. But on most days you have an expansive, almost limitless

latitude. Which suggests my 4th and final piece of advice. Wear the clothes that fit you, that fit your personality, and that fit your values.

Let me illustrate this point with a personal story. I was fortunate enough to have been raised in the era that was very rich with heroes and heroines, astronauts with the right stuff, pioneers of feminism, civil rights

activists, political leaders we perhaps naively regarded as idealists, and rock stars we certainly naively regarded as innocent youth. Within any one of these categories, the range of

personalities and styles was vast. To choose just one of these groups as an example, consider for a moment Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, and Thurgood Marshall.

Each differed from the other in substance and in style, but every one of them was unmistakably authentic. None was a pretender. Well, among all those heroes of the 1960s, I now confess,

somewhat sheepishly, but made a little easier by Professor Little's remarks, that I chose as my role model a professional basketball player. I wore his number #10 when I played a very mediocre brand of

basketball, my room was wallpapered with his posters. His rookie trading card was then, and still is, my prized possession. I hoarded my money in order to go to Madison Square Garden and

watch the New York Knickerbockers play because my hero was Walt Clyde Frazier, the Knicks point guard. Walt's name nickname was Clyde because he dressed like Clyde Barrow, a notorious outlaw of the Prohibition era and the

title character in Bonnie and Clyde, a cult movie of the 60s. Frazier wore a wide black rim hat, a double breasted white suit with broad black pinstripes, natty suspenders and rather nifty spats.

In a word, Clyde was bad. Which meant that he was good. He could strut his stuff on the court and off. Well, I wanted to be as cool as Clyde, so one day I went to a

clothier. The neon sign actually said Haberdashery in Newark, NJ not far from my home. And I said to the salesman, give me the Clyde look.

And so he did, right down for the long black leather gloves. But when I looked in that mirror, that 3 way mirror, I didn't see Clyde, I saw a buffoon. And despite working on Commission, the amiable salesman

wisely counseled me, you ain't walking out of my store looking like that. And thank goodness I heeded his advice. So let me say again, choose the clothes, the career and the

lifestyle that fit who you are and not who you want to be. OK, one last suggestion, with apologies to all of the dads in the audience. If you have to get a tattoo, go with I Love Mom because it has

the highest probability statistically of being an indelibly correct and enduring expression of your affection. I wish for you the joy and meaning of life. Congratulations to everyone of you and thank you again for this

extraordinary honor. Thank you, Doctor Chait. We now have come to the central purpose of this ceremony, the conferring of the degrees to enable the audience to

understand the order of procession. I should mention that the University is organized into eight colleges whose banners are displayed on the stage. We have students graduating from the College of Business and

Economics, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Science and Mathematics, and the College of Graduate Education and Research. At this ceremony, the chief academic officer of each college

is the Dean. Today we have Dean Saeed Garamani, Dean Mark Greenberg, Dean Dan Jones, Dean Allen Liebernight and Dean Sally White in attendance.

Could I also ask the audience that you limit applause for your graduate out of respect to the graduate immediately following, whose family and friends also have anxiously awaited their moment?

After President Smith has conferred the degrees, the graduates will come forward to receive their gift from the Towson University Alumni Association presented by President Smith and Regent Nevins.

Students receiving Latin honors will have them announced after their name. To receive a degree with honors, students must have completed 60 credits of undergraduate work at Towson University with the

following cumulative point averages 3.75 to Four Point O Summa cum Laude, 3.55 to 3.74 Magnum cum Laude, and 3.4 to 3.5 for cum laude. So that you may find your particular graduate in the

procession. Let me explain that within each of the colleges participating in this ceremony, graduates will be listed and assembled according to their respective departments.

Graduates will follow the instructions of the marshals and after you have received the gift from President Smith and Regent Nevins, follow across the stage and receive congratulations from the Dean of your college and then return to your seat where

you may be seated. Will the candidates for master's degrees please stand back? You are standing. I'm in the wrong place.

Doctor Smith. On recommendation of the faculty, I have the honor to present those students who have completed all requirements for the degrees Master of Arts, Master of Arts and Teaching,

Master of Fine Arts, Master of Education, Master of Music, or Master of Science. We may just add that to Doctor Chase's advice. When in the wrong place on the page, try again and find the

right one. Candidates for graduate degrees You have shown your determination to develop your talents and sharpen your skills. Yours is now the responsibility to apply these capabilities to

the service of humanity. This then is your charge is by the authority vested in me by the Board of Regents and the State of Maryland. I confer upon you the degree recommended with all the honors,

rights, privileges and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations for the Master's degree recipients. Please come forward to receive your alumni gift.

Good afternoon. I am Doctor Christopher Blake, associate Dean of the College of Graduate Education and Research. All matriculating graduate students will be receiving their

degrees from Doctor Sally White, Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate studies For Dean and I extend our congratulations and very best wishes for a most successful career.

Thank you. Mahendra Patel. Randolph Shorts. Bradford Shockley.

Kateri Bellevue. Shalonda Harper, Janita Henderson, Sondra Label, Jodie Manning, Laura Mitsak, Sandra Pons, Ling Rinwald, Sandra Seymour, Lauren Tarr, Diana Wingle, Ashley Alexander, Irene

Austin, Farah Sajadi, Paula Sourbourne, Regina Styer, Ralph Valley, John Vargo, Elizabeth Veal, Erica Warley, Linda Clary, Tracy Ford, Henry Joyner, Jennifer Mikalski. Say None Takumara Bhatia, Amanda Cassidy, Deborah Floyd, Amity

Hovey, Richard Reeves, Nisha Waggle, Michelle Weissner, Christine Destefano, Shadi Alegangbang One Kai Kangol. Chen, Chadong Dang, Cheryl Goldstein, Yang Lin, Huang Koenig, Smart Bagavi, Corapati, Helen Lawrence, Zumae, Lai You

Lin, Mark Malloy. A new son that make her now Wang Yi run Tobo go Chuan Truan SU EI Sun Fei Wang Yin, Wang Wu Wang LAN Wang Hong Wong, Zang Suji Sujini Sivakumar.

And that concludes presentation of Graduate School. Will the candidates for bachelor's degrees please stand? Doctor Smith, on the recommendation of the faculty, I have the honor of presenting to you those students who have

completed all requirements for the degrees Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, or Bachelor of Science. By the authority vested in me by the Board of Regents and the

State of Maryland, I confer upon you the degree recommended with all the honors, rights and privileges pertaining thereto. As a symbol of your new status, please move the Mortar Board tassel from the right to the left.

Congratulations. You may be seated until the Marshall directs you to come forward to receive your Alumni Association gift. Good afternoon.

I'm Beverly Leach, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. On behalf of the Dean of the College to Doctor Dan Jones and the faculty, I have the honor of presenting our graduates for

August and December 1999. Brandy Lynn Robinson, summa cum laude. Diane Howard Caldwell, cum laude. Daniel Wayne Corethen, Marissa Lee Corona Joseph Michael Davis,

The 2nd Christine Ruth Frizzell cum Laude. Laurie Ann Gallagher, Esther Butima Geremy Jason Charles Holmes, Lisa Ann Holt, Rashad Lamar Muse, Jennifer Ann Perno Michael E Petrella Jason Lance Samuel SUSE Walter Wilson Sawyer

Elliot Ward, Natalie Delpesch, Elizabeth Mary Sykes, Linda Lee Berry Blake F Adam Catherine M Garcia cum Laude. Colleen and Glennon Daniel Daniel Kutcher, Jamie M Lake, Eric William Miller, Shannon Jeanine Pitts, Joseph Edward

Robinson Junior Megan Elizabeth Shaw Negoni Say Stephanie Ann Lambert Summa cum Laude. Sandra Cayenne Norton, Carrie Rebecca Witchard, Christian John.

Calendar, Jennifer Ann Conti, Leslie Ann Copeland, Arturo Gabadon, Kevin Michael Gabard, Tracy Leanne Kernan, Brian Kenneth Lyda Victoria Ann Martini, Rolando Kiros, Patrick Richter, Sheila Elaine Webb, David John Adam, Jeremy Scott

Bolen, Catherine Lynn Brady Summa cum Laude. Adam Henry Caruso cum Laude. NASA Lizette Dawkins, Sasha Brooks Draper, Jennifer Lee Gladsky, Larry Lee Lawaki, Kristen A Getz Nokia, Melanie

Jennings, Stephen James Konkowski, Cheyenne Francis Lombard, Kara, Patricia Miller, Sherry and Norris cum Laude. Carrie Ann Parker, Karen Michelle Strecker, Edward Antonio Vecchino, Jessica Ann Duvall, Daniel Lewis Passarelli

Honors College Summa cum Laude. Luis Alexander, Tarol Hidalgo, Rachel. DC Waters, Kathleen Margaret Ice cum Laude. Larry Donnell Brown, Junior, cum Laude.

Ryan W Connor Christopher George Fairley, Dana Beth Fairley, Barbara Eileen Johansson cum Laude Stephen Joseph Kennedy, Kenny Matthew Michael McDermott cum Laude. Kevin Michael McMahon, Paul Alexander Raynard Matthew David

Meyer, Ryan Edwards Stumpner Kia Lavon Alexander Magna cum laude. Amy Christine Anderson, Maureen Veronica Baptist, Susan Ellen Barnes Magna cum Laude. Rachel Denise Barrett, Beth Dawn Barton, Andrea J Bauer, Kevin

Belshaw, Kimberly Siobhan Blackwell, Joanna Marie Bowen, Karen Elise Bronze, Monica Crystal Caesar, Anna Jay Cherio Bethany Ann Connelly, Jasmine Nikita Diggs, Jaya Noel Emmons, Stephanie Dawn Fisher and Ford, Magna cum laude.

Margaret J Forte, Jennifer Bartholomew Fertile Melinda Hope Geiger, Sharon Elizabeth Goff, Jamie Bettina Gulen Magna cum Laude. Lavanya Gupta, John Patrick Hayes, Christine Marie Henkel,

Keith C Hoffman, Kara Crouch, Joseph Alexander Lee Rhonda GAIL Lowe, Dorotea Moranto, Lisa Susan Martin, Priya Marwa, Tiffany Michelle Mel cum Laude. Mabel Ann Mendoza, Kirsten Alexandra Morrison Ladane

Janelle Mosley cum laude Tatiana Barney Mera Becky Joanna Ivana Novak, Heather Michelle Osterman, Donna Ann Peters cum laude. Lee S Pollock, Kimberly Marie Preston Tracy, Diane Rapasada,

Mark Damian Reed, Shannon Lynn Reynolds, Jessica Smith, Riley Charles Williams Shoe cum Laude. Dana Renee Volk, Michelle Lynn Smith, Amy Jean Snyder, Melissa Dawn Snyder, Michelle Patricia Sterling, Anthony Gregory

Sumter, Aaron Marie Tillman, Linda Louise Winnecki, Michelle Francis Weir Crystal Rathia Williams, Tara Makita Yancey Joycelyn Michelle Zimba, Melanie Ann, Anna Cleto, Gretchen Lee Arnold Joseph Gregory Dalam The 4th Andrea Franklin, Naomi

Laurian Graham, Tara Lynn Harris, Lania Ann Hess, Julia Teresa Joram, Julia Creeshawk, Dinetta R Lane, Michael Eric Mahoney, Molly Catherine Moore Latonya Renee Murphy cum Laude. Rosemary, Bridget O'Brien, Ray Pabon, Brian R Pastula, Victor

Warren Perez cum Laude. Eric William Poole, Teresa Marie Rosenberger, M Catherine Spath, Dana Marie Stalling, Tamika Antoinette Walton, Yvette Akua Yaboa Edward Joseph Yadres, Mary Jo Lauman Summa cum Laude.

Christina Louise Moyer, Sarah. Lavella Aukenhaus, Joe Sam, Clayton Swan, Daniel Edward Keller. Congratulations.

Good afternoon. I'm Ray Castaldi. On behalf of Dean Allen Liebernight and the faculty of the College of Business and Economics.

I'm very proud to present our graduates for 1999. Tracy Aretha Good Rifka, Wendy Goldman, summa cum Laude Dara Elaine Tomlinson, Summa cum laude. Andrea Susan Baker, Cindy Renee Collins Honors College, Magna

cum laude. Sylvia Winster, Epic Stephen Anthony Kaminsky, Aaron H Lay, cum Laude. Darlene and Manuel Hotan Fondo, Arlene Marie Smith, Deborah

Sarundas, Benita Thakar, Steven Roger Atkinson, Brad Robert Barker Magna cum Laude Chad Jason Barrett, Jonathan Dedrick Bell Jeffrey Andrew Binkowski, Heather and Blandford, Denise L Raider cum Laude.

Gregory Bronico, Kevin Patrick, Bruffy Wiley, Robert Burge, Michelle Lynn Kenizo, Christine Chagettis, Elizabeth and Claire Matthew Paul Clement, Leanne Cammarata, Stephen Coats, James Lamont Coleman, Daniel Dean Coel, James Robert Curran

Junior, John J Demske, Kenneth James Darr, Nicholas Steven Elgin. Maria Fiowski, Honors College Magna cum Laude. Torriola Paluya Kim, Angela.

Ferrandini, Christine. Patri Fisher, Justin. James Ford Allen, Joseph. Foster, Brian.

Michael Frederick, Christopher, Paul Giggler, Christopher. William Gallipo, Beto. Bindo. Gay, Demetrius Gorgentinos, Joanna El Giardini, Ian.

Aaron Greenberg, Aaron. Rayford Green, Keith. William Gundling, Todd Stewart, Heber, Christopher Todd Holdaway Magna cum Laude.

Andrew, Ryan Hoover, Jennifer, Michelle Horn, Emmanuel Hapsis, Jill and Rostowski. I mean Lynn Hill, Joel Allen Willard, Stephen R Bear, Brad J Bono, Dustin M Povetter, Zachary Thomas Howell, Christopher John

Heiser, Melinda Renee Hasbrook Magna cum Laude, Wendy Marie Jones, La Tasana Filivan, Charles Edward Keene Regis, John Cagle Junior Susan L Kelloway, Sung Ho Kim, Andrea Lynn Kobrline cum Laude.

Felicia Simone Lawrence Christina Marie Delilio cum laude. Philip Germano, Columbo, Christopher Philip Anselone, Jamie Lynn Cassell, Kenneth Bruce Rothke, Kellyanne Rhine,

Kevin Carchanabi, David Mark Marzullo, Christopher Allen Corzum, Kenneth Steven Cucera, Jeffrey Franklin Kerlin, Elizabeth Garrett Lafaye, Dawn Elise Lang, Stacey Ann Litz, Xiang MU Lee, Nata.

Wang Marquara, Kenneth Bryan Linder. Stacy Marshall Napier, Bruce Arthur Maxwell Junior, Patrick Jerome Mcbee, Jennifer Shannon McDonald, John Michael McDowell, Paul Joseph Meany, The Third.

Michael Edward Miller, Alexander Joseph Milevic, The Third Honors College Kumla, Miriam, Myra Mitrani, Jennifer Ingram Moore, Carrie. Lind Moore, Daryl.

Norman Mudd, Joseph, Patrick Murray, Julie Ann Muth, Brian Charles Nelson, Eric. Artinas, Newman, Craig. Arnold Noel, Jennifer Marie Norton, Marcus Wayne Oxer, Brian

L Parker, Gary Allen, Peoples Junior, Janine Antoinette Porsche, Allison Barney Reed, Aaron Eileen Rice, Chris. Avento, de Roros, Jason Allen Rosenway, Kyle Sanders, Toyota Francina Sanders, Bonnie Hope Schwartz, Jennifer A Secli cum

Laude. Jessica, Diane Selby, Jennifer Nicole Schaefer, Garrett Scott Shames Magna cum laude. He meant Sharma, Patrick Anthony Sheehan, Sharon Lynn Sinclair,

Rodney Charles, Metenna Lewis, Michael Smith, Leroy Barnes, Spurrier The Third Don Elisa Stuff Aristidek, Oswald Toque cum Laude. Brian Patrick Thornton, Jennifer Lynn Tillman Fabian Laurent

Toscano, Kimberly Turner, Jessica Lauren Vitek cum Laude. Stephen Douglas Widener, Michelle Lynnae Wilder. Michelle Renee Wilt West, Ryan Winterstein, William K Young Martez Samudo Sebastian Quasi Azanet Salah Tule Bah Philip

Jeffrey Berger Honors College Summa cum Laude. Matthew Roberts Strayes. Michael Carl Hardy 2nd Young Young John John Charles Kirby Junior.

Christopher John Lahart, Kenneth Odell Logan David Frederick Priscilla Junior. Kristen Deanna Smith, Kristen Michelle Smith, David Michael Stabenowa, Tasha Renee Williams, Valerie Jeanette Bremer.

The Amy Toyin Ungabata. I'm Doctor Katherine Denniston, associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. On behalf of Doctor Saeed Garimani, Interim Dean of the

College and the faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics, I'd like I'm honored to present to you today the August and December 1999 graduates of the College of Science and Mathematics.

Mirko Kapachic, Summa cum laude. Buki Akinpello, Magna cum laude. Andrew John Becker, Susan Elaine Baller, Carly Jean Vitisen, Karen Marie Cavey, Reba Karine Trineski, Summa cum Laude.

Charles Edward Power, Tiffany Marie Howe Honors College, Magna cum Laude. Lisa Amy Levin, Paula Carol Wong, Lisette Martinez, Fiona Nzola, Imbela Imbulla OK Anthony Alexander Pullen cum laude.

Kenneth Remo, Tia Nicole Sanders, Vincent Salvatore Sansone Magna cum Laude Sandra Denise Savage ERA James Stanton Anitra Jennifer Stein, Christopher Anthony Turner, Michael Weller, Leon L Botters Junior Jane Anne Kayanen, Robert

Lee Klingen, Jared Scott Cohen Bang. Ding, Xian. Jiang, William. John.

Kegel, Daniel. Loudon Kinahan, Christopher. Tapacio Mahareza, Mahad. Deer Warren, William.

McNicholas, Junior, Michael Gregory Mead, Sherry. Lacrisa Nichols, cum Laude. Mahudkar Patel, Summa cum Laude. Joseph, John Perchalsky, The Third.

David, William. Plateau, Kenneth James. Reeves, Melissa Suzanne Shumpert, Chinese Chantel, Christie, cum Laude, Michael Robert.

Connolly, Ronald William Dowden, Thomas, Edward. Image Vincent F Kerner Alex Cooperman Sinjai Lee Nokia Tia McGowan Adrian Nicole Moore Gil Moshe Salou cum Laude. Eric Slauson Magna cum Laude.

Daryl Lynn Stewart Michael Jeffrey Thomas Junior Christopher Raymond Tillman Allatan Allatan Mary Josephine Groves Jamie Jamie Lynn Mumford Magna cum Laude. Michelle Sears, Sarah Simon Laura Jean Urrell Kelly Marie

Flynn Emma Suzanne Ketterly, Linda Marie Murphy Summa cum Laude. Lisa Michelle Pollock, David Patrick Wilmot, Jennifer Michelle Yantorno, Magna cum laude.

Congratulations and best wishes to each one of you. We will conclude the ceremony this afternoon with the singing of the Maryland State song, Maryland, My Maryland. Please join us.

You will find the words on page 25 of your commencement program. Immediately following Doctor Smith, his party and the faculty will begin the recessional. There will be no graduate recessional.

I ask that members of the audience and the graduates remain where they are until Doctor Smith, his party, and the faculty have left the auditorium. Graduates may then join their families.

Will everyone please stand now and join Chana Colley, accompanied by the Towson University Brass Quintet, in the singing of Maryland, My Maryland? My thankful heart with rapture fills, Maryland my Maryland.

When I behold thy rolling hills Maryland my Maryland. I love your rocks and rippling rills Your waterways where beauty spills, and nature

holds a thousand thrills, Maryland my Maryland. I love thy vistas on the bay, Maryland My Maryland, the scent of rose and new-mown hay, Maryland

my Maryland. Thy people love their work and play where hopes are high and hearts are gay Long may thy noble laws hold sway. Maryland, my Maryland. (music)