by Meggy Weng
Time flies, and the graduation season is upon us again. 2016-17 AY graduation ceremonies will be held this weekend. Graduation ceremonies at Taoyuan Campus will be held on June 10 (Sat.) at First Gymnasium; 14:00-16:00 is the period for School of Tourism, School of Information Technology, School of Social Sciences, and Taoyuan International College, while 18:30-20:30 is the period for School of Education and Applied Languages, School of Health Technology, and School of Design. The graduation ceremony on Taipei Campus will be held on 18:30-20:30, June 11 (Sun.) at Sun Yat Sen Auditorium, for students graduating from School of Management, School of Communication, School of Law and Taipei International College.
A total of 4,584 students are being awarded doctoral degrees, masters’ degrees, and bachelors’ degrees. [1,911 graduate students on Taipei Campus, 2,633 graduate students on Taoyuan Campus, 24 graduate students on Kinmen Campus, 9 graduate students at Lienchiang Location, and 7 graduate students at Michigan Location]. All graduating students will share the joy of achievement with their teachers, friends, and family. President Lee will give remarks during the ceremonies and each ceremony will feature one graduating student delivering a valedictory speech: Zhang, Chun-Qi from Journalism and Mass Communication Program of International College, Lu, Yu-Zi from Applied Statistics and Information Science Department, and Huang, Ling-Jie from Biotechnology Department. These student speakers have been selected to represent all the graduating students in expressing their sentiments, as well as appreciation to the university and the faculty.
Due to the limitation of the seats in the venues, only family members with an audience pass will be allowed to enter the venue. Family members without a pass are to please go to P101 meeting room on Taoyuan Campus, H101 or Library reading room on Taipei Campus for a live broadcast of the proceedings. On the other hand, they can also watch the broadcast via internet, MC Weekly FB page will broadcast live on Facebook at http://fb.com/MCUWeekly/.