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Look@ all of those folks.

DSU to Feature Clark Kent Ervin as Commencement Speaker
April 26, 2008






DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY NAMES CLARK KENT ERVIN AS ITS

2008 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER



Served as the first Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President George S. Bush, a controversial tenure in which he discovered gaps and inefficiencies that continues to leave America vulnerable to terrorist attack.



Delaware State University will present Clark Kent Ervin, the director of the Homeland Security Initiative with the Aspen Institute, as its keynote speaker during DSU’s 116th Commencement on May 18.


Clark Kent Ervin




DSU will present bachelor, master and doctoral degrees to a host of graduates during the Sunday, May 18 Commencement, which will begin at 10 a.m. at Alumni Stadium on campus.



Mr. Ervin, who has been at the Aspen Institute since 2005, also served under President George W. Bush as the first Inspector General of the then-newly created U.S. Department of Homeland Security from January 2003 to December 2004. He has also served as the Inspector General of both the U.S. State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and Associate Director of Policy in White House Office of National Service under President George H.W. Bush.



A J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, Mr. Ervin is an on-air analyst and contributor at CNN, focusing on homeland security, national security and intelligence issues. He is frequently cited as an expert on these matters by major national and international publications, and has published a 2006 book on homeland security, titled Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack.



In his book Open Target, Mr. Ervin discloses that his Office of the Inspector General under the Homeland Security found that while America is marginally safer than it was on 9/11, countless security gaps and inefficiencies still exist that continue to leave the United States vulnerable to terrorist attack. He also notes in that book that in bringing it to the American public's attention, it cost him his job as Inspector General.



Also on Commencement weekend at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17 DSU will hold its annual Honors Day Program in its Education and Humanities Theatre, where it will recognize the academic excellence of its top students. The University will feature Dr. Dudley E. Flood, a retired North Carolina education administrator, as its Honors Program keynote speaker.



Mr. Dudley served 21 years with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, which he culminated as its Associate State Superintendent. After retiring from state service in 1990, over the next five years he was the executive director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators. He continues to be a frequently sought consultant and speaker on education issues.

SCSU Commencement Speaker

The President of Zanzibar
Commencement Speaker His Excellency Amani Abeid Karume



Amani Abeid Karume The 2008 spring commencement ceremonies at SC State University will be held on Friday, May 9, at the Oliver C. Dawson Stadium on campus.

His Excellency, Amani Abeid Karume, president of Zanzibar will speak at the 7 p.m. ceremony.

President Kaurme’s Bio

Biography of H. E. Amani Abeid Karume

Amani Abeid Karume is of the new generation of African leaders, succeeding leaders who led the liberation of Africa from colonialism. His focus is on economic and social development and he is fortunate to have been born by a leading nationalist leader. His father, Abeid Amani Karume, was the leader of the freedom movement in Zanzibar in the 50’s and early 60’s. He became the founding father of the Zanzibar Nation and later Tanzania when he united his nation with Julius Nyerere’s Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

His Excellency Karume was schooled in the freedom struggle through his association with his father. Thus, it was easy for him to step into the political world. He was already a seasoned Politian in 1990 when he was elected a Member of Zanzibar House of Representatives at the early age of 42. He was appointed a Cabinet Minister in the Zanzibar Government leading the Trade, Industry and Marketing portfolio. At the same time, he was nominated a Member of the Tanzania Parliament. In his second term as a representative, he was appointed Minister for Communications and Transport. He rose to become the elected President of Zanzibar in 2000 and re-elected to another five year term in 2005.

Since assuming the Presidency, Karume has engaged himself greatly in economic and social development of Zanzibar particularly in education and health sectors and poverty reduction programs. Under his leadership Zanzibar has launched an Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy with emphasis on education development.

Karume is an idealist leader who leads a simple life. He is well described as a workaholic but at the same time he is family man who specially dots on his grandchildren. His love for children is universal, thus his great zeal in the promotion of education.

Under his administration Zanzibar has adopted a Universal Primary Education policy whereby 100% of school going children are enrolled in the first primary classes.

Through his vision, Zanzibar economy and infrastructure development including road network and telecommunication has surpassed many counties in Africa, South of the Sahara.

Karume is populist politician, a quality he inherited from his father, but he is also a realist. This is reflected in his successful contribution to conflict resolution in his country.

He is Vice-Chairman of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi. He is also the Chancellor of the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) and is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Tanzania. He rose to the current leadership position from the ranks, first within the youth movement of his party to constituency representation.

He is a great reader of politics, history, social studies and economics.

Dr. James Ammons will be the commencement speaker at Fort Valley State University.

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"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret".

--Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic Gold Medalist

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Tyrone Taborn
Contributing Author, The Covenant With Black America

Tyrone Taborn is a contributing author for The Covenant with Black America (Third World Press), the New York Times best seller compiled by PBS-TV's Tavis Smiley. He has written op-ed pages for the Baltimore Sun and has been a panelist on the television program Square Off at WJZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. He now writes a national technology column that appears in newspapers, magazines, and on Web sites, and he is currently a member of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists. In addition, Mr. Taborn is the founder of Black Family Technology Week program, which is sponsored by the IBM Corporation, La Familia Technology Awareness Week and the Native American Technology Awareness Project.

Mr. Taborn has been a member of the Baltimore Engineering Society and has served on the boards of the Baltimore Urban League and the Granville Academy. His other current and past board positions include Centro de la Comunidad Inc., Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering (AMIE), Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of America, the Montessori School in Baltimore County, Afro-American Newspapers, the Executive Board of the Morgan State University Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust.

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, in conjunction with the Legislative Black Caucus, recently awarded Mr. Taborn Maryland’s first ever Living History Award in the field of science and technology. Mr. Taborn was also recently honored by the Baltimore Marketing Association as Business Person of the Year and received the Hispanic Engineer of the Year Chairman Award. He was one of only nine Internet and Technology leaders honored by Sprint and MOBE IT, which recognizes minority leaders in technology; awarded the Visionary Award by Mercedes Benz; and named one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology by the editors of Blackmoney.com and souloftechnology.net, which sponsors the awards to demonstrate the critical role that Blacks play in the growth of cutting edge industries. Congressman Major Owens presented him with a Congressional Black Caucus Honor as a Pioneer in Publishing.

With roots in both the Latino and Black communities, Mr. Taborn, who grew up in Los Angeles, California, attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. At Cornell, he majored in government. He also held membership in the Senior Honor Society "Quill and Dagger" and was one of 32 academic scholars honored with membership in the prestigious Telluride Association. In 1978, Mr. Taborn was selected the first LBJ Intern in the office of late Congressman Julian C. Dixon.

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Acclaimed Author, Dennis Kimbro to Keynote FAMU Summer 2008 Commencement

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Dennis P. Kimbro, Ph.D., acclaimed author and professor, will keynote Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Summer 2008 commencement scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, August 8, at the Tallahassee- Leon County Civic Center.

Kimbro has interviewed some of America’s most notable achievers with one question in mind: How can impoverished black Americans pull themselves out of poverty and reach their full potential? Kimbro decided to study, and use as a reference, Napoleon Hill’s bestseller “Think and Grow Rich.” He also developed an open survey to use among black Americans much like Hill did in the 1930s.

Two years later, Kimbro learned from the Napoleon Hill Foundation, that Hill himself had drafted a book in 1970 that explored his same question. After a personal meeting with the president of the foundation, Kimbro was commissioned to update and complete Hill’s original manuscript. The end result was “Think and Grow: A Black Choice,” which delves into the secrets of success contained in the lives of peak performing men and women, and reveals how readers can utilize these keys to make their dreams come true.

He has been awarded the Dale Carnegie Personal Achievement Award, and in 1996 he served as one of the eight national judges for the prestigious Ernst and Young USA Today Entrepreneur of the Year. The National Black MBA Association presented him with the 2005 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Award, emblematic of the top business professor in the nation. Kimbro has been featured on the Today Show and Larry King Live, and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.

Kimbro is the author of several books including his bestseller “What Keeps Me Standing: A Black Grandmother’s Guide to Peace, Hope and Inspiration.”

Kimbro received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Oklahoma, and his doctorate from Northwestern University, where he studied wealth and poverty among underdeveloped countries. He is currently a professor at the Clark Atlanta University School of Business Administration. He is married, and is the father to three daughters; Kelli, Kimberli and MacKenzie.

http://www.hamptonu.edu/news/051308_77_commencement.htm

Hampton, VA - Christopher Gardner served as the keynote speaker at the 138th Annual Hampton University Commencement Exercises on May 11 in Armstrong Stadium. Gardner was also a proud parent at the ceremony. His daughter, Jacintha Gardner, received a bachelor's degree in business management and became the first person in his family to graduate from college. There were 1,045 degrees conferred at the ceremony, 875 undergraduate degrees, 49 professional degrees and 121 graduate degrees.

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Hampton, VA - Christopher Gardner served as the keynote speaker at the 138th Annual Hampton University Commencement Exercises on May 11 in Armstrong Stadium. Gardner was also a proud parent at the ceremony. His daughter, Jacintha Gardner, received a bachelor's degree in business management and became the first person in his family to graduate from college. There were 1,045 degrees conferred at the ceremony, 875 undergraduate degrees, 49 professional degrees and 121 graduate degrees.

Baby Boy beat you to this one back in April but this had to be a powerful commencement speech

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Hampton, VA - Christopher Gardner served as the keynote speaker at the 138th Annual Hampton University Commencement Exercises on May 11 in Armstrong Stadium. Gardner was also a proud parent at the ceremony. His daughter, Jacintha Gardner, received a bachelor's degree in business management and became the first person in his family to graduate from college. There were 1,045 degrees conferred at the ceremony, 875 undergraduate degrees, 49 professional degrees and 121 graduate degrees.

Baby Boy beat you to this one back in April but this had to be a powerful commencement speech

Powerful it was, but the link is a slide show of the event itself.....