![]() He was the last one in his group to make the summit. ![]() ![]() He slogged its more than 19,000 feet first through a day of mud, then through a night of darkness to avoid dizziness. The director pumped up the crowd be recalling a strenuous trek to the top of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro. Honored Saturday with an honorary doctorate in fine arts was the acclaimed film director, actor and comedian Robert Townsend, former president and CEO of production for The Black Family Channel, who has mentored a legion of CSUN cinema and TV arts department students. “I know as graduates, you have the grit, you have the smarts and you have the swagger to overcome the obstacles - the Matador swagger, c’mon now,” White said, to raucous cheers, “to overcome obstacles, embrace adversity and historic innovation, to run the economic and social engine to drive California forward.”įormer Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, whose office gave $2 million toward construction of the Valley Performing Arts Center, is being awarded with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Not since the disastrous off-campus graduation that froze students for hours in traffic outside the Hollywood Bowl in 1989 has the Northridge campus held weekend graduations.īut with a record number of students - some 40,136 last fall - campus officials scheduled the weekend commencements to help ease the burden for working students and families, a spokeswoman said.Ĭal State University Chancellor Tim White, who oversees 22 campuses statewide, appeared as a special guest to usher CSUN’s first grads into an alumni now three million strong, on every continent across the globe. ![]() They also shared the bonds of cap and gowns as they line up for diplomas at seven CSUN commencement ceremonies, which end Monday. ![]() As a morning sun broke through a gray shroud lingering from this week’s storm, an estimated 1,500 students from the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication, accompanied by grads rained out of Friday’s Honors Convocation, strode into the fenced-off lawn before a looming Oviatt Library.Īs such, the CSUN Class of 2015 shared a bright future often born of years of hard work and financial hardship. ![]()
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