Dr. Jerold Hale
photo by Angela Foster/UTC
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga fall commencement will be celebrated with three ceremonies and approximately 870 degrees awarded over two days this Friday and Saturday. All ceremonies will take place inside McKenzie Arena.
The graduate student ceremony is at 2:30 p.m. on Friday (
Livestream link). Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Jerold Hale will deliver the graduation charge.
Two undergraduate commencement ceremonies will be held on Saturday: College of Arts and Sciences/College of Engineering and Computer Science at 9 a.m.
(
Livestream link) and Gary W. Rollins College of Business/College of Health, Education and Professional Studies at 1 p.m. (
Livestream link). Dr. Michelle D. Deardorff, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of government and department head of political science and public service, is the featured speaker for both ceremonies.
The many stories of UTC graduates include:
• Jennifer Isaacson has been going non-stop with four children, education and work—and will now possess a nursing degree.
• Larry Guess, an Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter flight paramedic, is a member of the inaugural class of the UTC’s bachelor of applied science in applied leadership online degree program completing the curriculum and receiving a degree—15 months after the program started and 25 years after his college journey began.
• “My life changes every four years, so I’m about to go explore some other place,” said Anuja Patel, who will graduate with a degree in marketing from UTC.
• Maggie Shaw, receiving a bachelor’s degree in nursing, was a three-time all-Southern Conference first-team soccer selection and a two-time SoCon Defensive Player of the Year.
This will be the 260th overall commencement for the University, which was founded in 1886 as the then-private Chattanooga University. The first UTC graduation ceremony took place Aug. 23, 1969 in the Tivoli Theater in downtown Chattanooga.