Mary Jane McCoy, a graduate of CSUSB who had a long career as an educator in the Inland Empire, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on May 17. A member of the Class of 1967, the university’s first graduating class, she served as an elementary school teacher and a principal in San Bernardino.
Paul Granillo, a CSUSB alumnus and president and CEO of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, will be honored at the May 17 Spring Commencement with a CSU Trustee-Nominated Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
The Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce’s award is being given to Brown-Hinds for her dedication in media and journalism, and she will be formally recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, May 25.
Mary M. Heckmann, who is also a CSUSB alumna, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the College of Arts and Letters and the James R. Watson and Judy Rodriguez Watson College of Education Commencement, scheduled for May 20.
Dorene C. Dominguez will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the commencement ceremony for the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration on May 20 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario.
Paulette Brown-Hinds will spend her fellowship to explore ways to empower smaller newsrooms serving diverse communities in California to use solutions-focused data.
A weekend of ceremonies that honored the hard work and dedication of the Class of 2022. A total of 2,320 undergraduate students and 513 graduate students celebrated at the CSUSB Spring Commencement on May 20 and 21.
More than 2,830 students are expected to participate in the CSUSB 2022 Spring Commencement, the university’s first live spring commencement since 2019, in four separate ceremonies May 20-21 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario.
CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales gave a speech at the Santos Manuel Student Union North grand opening; Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed why the Aryan Nations Knights chose Arizona and commented on the increase of anti-Russian attacks; and Agustin Ramirez (VSC) commented on CSUSB being named a Military Friendly School.