No commencement speaker scheduled; five honorary degrees to be conferred
More than 5,600 students will leave McKale Center Saturday as members of UAâs 126th graduating class.
University of Arizona President Peter Likins will confer degrees upon more than 4,269 undergraduate, 837 masters and 276 doctoral students, as well as 98 medical, 128 law and 56 pharmacy students.
This yearâs graduation commencement will not feature a keynote speaker, and the ceremony will focus more on the graduating students than in past years.
UA President Peter Likins said the change is an experiment to make the ceremony more interesting for graduates and their families.
Patti Ota, Likinsâ senior associate, said administrative officials tracked the length of commencement ceremonies over 10 years and found that ceremonies sometimes lasted up to three hours and also lost focus on the students who were graduating.
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