Scenes from Convocation (photos/video)
I had the pleasure of walking ahead of the procession of new UMBC students down our main academic corridor to today's Convocation. Here is some of what I saw, including video of the addresses given by SGA President Kaylesh Ramu, former University System of Maryland Student Regent Collin Wojciechowski and President Freeman Hrabowski. You might have to turn up the volume on the videos to hear the wonderful speakers.
I was especially thrilled and inspired by Dr. Hrabowski's charge to new students to get involved in changing the world. That portion of his address starts at around the 20:20 mark.
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| A beautiful day for a walk across campus |
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| Faculty and staff get ready to welcome new students |
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| New students streaming across the campus to the RAC. |
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| The main RAC arena was unavailable due to flooding. The smaller arena was filled. |
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| Provost Rous welcomed new students into our scholarly community. |
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| Vice President for Student Affairs Nancy Young led the pinning ceremony. |
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| President Hrabowski: "Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." |
--David Hoffman
Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.
Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.
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Posted: August 28, 2012, 11:07 PM