Commencements for state's public colleges, universities set

Bristol Community College
Saturday, June 5 at 11 a.m. on the Commencement Green
Expected graduates: approximately 900
Degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in Applied Science, Certificate of Achievement
Honorary Degrees (first-ever awarded by BCC): the late Senator Edward Kennedy

Bunker Hill Community College
Saturday, June 5 at 11 a.m. under the tent on the Charlestown Campus
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Expected graduates: approximately 815
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates

Cape Cod Community College
Thursday, May 27 at 4 p.m. at the Cape Cod Melody Tent
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Expected graduates: approximately 575
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates
Honorary Degree: US Representative William D. Delahunt

Fitchburg State College
Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. on the quad (Recreation Center in the event of rain)
Speaker: Dr. Patrice K. Nicholas (’77), director of Global Health and Academic Partnerships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions
Expected graduates: approximately 450
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degree: Nicholas

Framingham State College
Sunday, May 16 at 2 p.m. at the Town of Framingham Green
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: approximately 600
Degrees: Bachelor of Art, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degree: Patrick

Greenfield Community College
Sunday, June 6 at 12 p.m., under a tent on the main campus athletic fields
Speakers: Robert L. Pura, college president; Greg Vouros, professor of athropology; Sara Ann Laffond, Student Senate president, Liberal Arts/Education; Gaius Brandt Slosser, student, nursing
Expected graduates: 265
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates

Holyoke Community College
Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. on the O'Connell Soccer Field
Speakers: Student orators Alexander N. Pangborn ('10), Tyrra L. Minto ('10), and Janice M. Daley ('10)
Expected graduates: approximately 1,000
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates

Massachusetts Bay Community College
Thursday, May 27 at the Wellesley Hills Campus
Speaker: Alan Khazei, founder and CEO of Be The Change, Inc., founder of City Year, and candidate for US Senate in 2009-10
Expected graduates: approximately 600
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates

Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Friday, May 21 at 1 p.m. at Evans Way park
Speakers: Lowery Stokes Sims, curator; Josh Randall, senior creative director at Harmonix Music Systems Inc.
Expected graduates: approximately 325 receiving bachelor’s degrees, 35 master’s degrees
Degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Science in Art Education
Honorary degrees: Sims

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Saturday, May 22 at 11 a.m. in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium
Speaker: Anita F. Hill, attorney and Brandeis University professor of social policy, law and women’s studies
Expected graduates: 327 bachelor’s degrees, 27 master’s degrees, 2 certificates
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Education, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study
Honorary Degrees: Hill; Foster Devereux, business executive and former MCLA trustee; Stephen Hannock, Academy Award-winning painter; Josetta Owen (’65), educator and community volunteer

Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Saturday, June 19 at 10 a.m. on the Parade Field
Speakers: Alan S. McKim, CEO of Clean Harbors Environmental Services; Judith Nitsch, President of Nitsch Engineering (charge to the class)
Expected graduates: 206 undergraduates, 44 graduates
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Master of Science
Honorary Degrees: McKim and Nitsch; John Austin III, former Mass Maritime trustee; Representative Patricia Haddad, state representative for the fifth Bristol district

Massasoit Community College
Friday, June 4 at 6 p.m. in the Asiaf Field House on the Brockton Campus
Expected graduates: 535
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, Medical Assistant Certificate, Dental Assistant Certificate
Honorary degrees: Manthala George Jr., former superintendent of Brockton Public Schools; Jordan Rich of WBZ NewsRadio.

Middlesex Community College
Thursday, May 27 at 10 a.m. at Lowell Memorial
Auditorium
Speaker: Liz Murray, subject of the Lifetime Television movie “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”
Expected graduates: 1,100
Degrees: associate’s, certificates

Mount Wachusett Community College
Thursday, May 20 at 6 p.m. in the college’s Fitness & Wellness Center
Expected graduates: 911
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates
Speaker: Joyce Landry, co-founder and CEO of Landry & Kling Inc., a Miami-based company specializing in cruise event services
Honorary degrees: James D. Murphy (posthumously), chairman emeritus of MWCC’s board of trustees and first chairman of the board; former member, president and vice president of the Massachusetts Community College Association; community activist and volunteer

North Shore Community College
Thursday, May 27 at 6 p.m. at Salem State College's O'Keefe Center
Speaker: Karen Andreas, publisher of The Salem News
Expected graduates: 1,000
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, certificates

Northern Essex Community College
Saturday, May 22, 11 a.m., at the Haverhill Campus quadrangle
Speaker: Dan Lyons (’83), technology columnist for Newsweek
Student speaker: Nigel Mainville of Amesbury, international relations
Expected graduates: 1,069
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, certificates

Quinsigamond Community College
Thursday, May 20 at 4 p.m., main campus soccer field
Speaker: Joseph O'Brien, mayor of Worcester
Number of graduates: approximately 800
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Certificates

Roxbury Community College
Friday, May 21 at 1 p.m. at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center
Speaker: Setti Warren, Mayor of Newton and first popularly elected black mayor of Massachusetts
Expected graduates: approximately 302
Degrees: Associate of Art, Associate of Science, certificates

Salem State College - Undergraduate School of Arts & Sciences
Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. at the O’Keefe Center
Speaker: Michael S. Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor and 1988 U.S. presidential candidate
Expected graduates: 576 Degrees
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Liberal Studies
Honorary Degrees: Carole E. Simpson, journalist and ABC news anchor and senior correspondent; Dr. Mallika Marshall (Simpson’s daughter), physician and former CBS News and WBZ medical anchor and correspondent

Salem State College - Undergraduate Bertolon School of Business and Schools of Human ServicesSaturday, May 22 at 3 p.m. at the O’Keefe Center
Expected graduates: 838
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Social Work
Honorary Degrees: James and Karen Ansara, philanthropists

Springfield Technical Community College
Thursday, June 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the MassMutual Center
Speaker: STCC President Ira H. Rubenzahl
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, certificates
Honorary Degrees: Ronald Grodsky, president of Harry Grodsky & Co. Inc.

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. at McGuirk Alumni Stadium
Speaker: Sheila C. Bair, FDIC chairman
Expected graduates: 4,200
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science

University of Massachusetts Boston
Friday, June 4 at 9:30 a.m. on the Campus Center lawn
Speaker: Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and long-time advocate for women, children and families
Expected graduates: 2,141 undergraduates; 1,105 graduates
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Education, Doctor of Education, Doctor of Philosophy, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Post-Master’s Certificate
Honorary Degrees: Kennedy; George A. Russell Jr., executive vice president and director of community affairs for State Street Corporation; Daisaku Ikeda, a Buddhist leader and founder of the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Sunday, May 23 at 10:15 a.m. at Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater
Speaker: José Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor and a Nobel Peace Laureate
Expected graduates: approximately 1,100
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Honorary degrees: Ramos-Horta; Julia Plotnick, former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and global health advocate; Gerald Mauretti (’65), president and founder of EY Technologies

University of Massachusetts Lowell
Saturday, May 29 at 10 a.m. at the Tsongas Center
Speaker: Roger Goodell, National Football League commissioner
Expected graduates: About 30 associate’s, 1,400 bachelor’, 650 master’s, 100 doctorates
Degrees: Associate of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Science, Master of Science in Engineering, Master of Education, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Education, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Nurse Practice, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Honorary degrees: Goodell, accepting for his father, the late US Senator Charles Goodell; Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Richard N. Goodwin, presidential speechwriter and adviser to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy; Gloria Ladson-Billings, pedagogical philosopher, scholar and educational author; Alan P. Lightman, physicist, novelist and author

University of Massachusetts Medical School -- Worcester
Sunday, June 6 at 1 p.m. under a tent on the campus green
Speaker: Harold E. Varmus, MD, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, former director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Expected graduates: 176
Degrees: master’s, PhD, MD, MD/PhD, Doctor of Nursing Practice
Honorary Degree: Varmus; Mary C. DeFeudis, local philanthropist; Michael Horgan, former chief executive officer and registrar of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Westfield State College
Saturday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. at Westfield State College Green on Western Avenue
Speaker: Byron Pitts, author and CBS News correspondent
Expected graduates: 1,200 undergraduates, 180 graduates
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Education, Master of Public Administration, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Program
Honorary Degrees: Pitts; Roxanne Spillett, president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of America; Sheriff Michael Ashe Jr., sheriff of Hampden County; Therese Murray, president of Massachusetts Senate; Robert A. Johnson, president and CEO of Special Olympics Massachusetts; Alan Chartock, president and CEO of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio

Worcester State College
Sunday, May 16 at 1 p.m. at the DCU Center
Speaker: Colonel Marian J. McGovern, the first woman to lead the Massachusetts State Police
Expected graduates: 482 undergraduates, 96 graduates
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Education, Master of Occupational Therapy, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in School Psychology
Honorary Degrees: McGovern; Lt. Gen. Kevin T. Campbell, commanding general of the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/US Army Forces Strategic Command

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Note to colleges: For updates to this list, e-mail Shana Wickett at swickett@globe.com