More than 400 to graduate December 15
December 10, 2012
More than 400 students will graduate during fall commencement.
Ceremonies will be Saturday, December 15, in the Special Events Center on the main FPU campus, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave., Fresno. Students in the traditional undergraduate, seminary and other graduate programs will graduate at 10:00 a.m., and students in the bachelor’s degree completion programs will graduate at 1:30 p.m.
The speaker at both events will be Pete C. Menjares, Ph.D., president of FPU.
Of the approximately 417 graduates, 267 are from degree completion. These working adults make up the largest portion of FPU’s student body of more than 3,500. They attend one of the university’s regional centers in Merced, North Fresno, Visalia and Bakersfield.
The 96 graduate students include those from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary, as well as those earning master’s degrees in education, business and other areas of study. The remaining 54 students come from traditional undergraduate programs, which posted an enrollment milestone in the fall of 2012 by surpassing 1,200 for the first time in the school’s 68-year history.
More at fresno.edu/commencement
About the author
Wayne Steffen is university editor at Fresno Pacific University, where he edits Pacific magazine. Before joining FPU in 1996, he was a writer and editor at several community newspapers and a college in the Midwest.