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JUNE 2007

New York University

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development faculty recently hooded 88 new doctoral degree graduates at the Doctoral Convocation, held in NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The program included remarks by Steinhardt Deans Brabeck and Robin, NYU Provost David McLaughlin, Professor Helen Nissenbaum, Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awardee Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Ph.D. ‘80, and Doctoral graduate Michael Nina. More than 800 relatives, friends, and colleagues joined the graduates for the ceremony and reception.

More than 750 masters and advanced certificate graduates participated in a Valedictory Celebration. The Theater at Radio City Music Hall was filled with proud and enthusiastic parents, grandparents, spouses, children and friends. The program included remarks by Dean Mary Brabeck, Executive Vice President Michael Alfano, Professor Robert Landy, Distinguished Achievement Awardees Michael and Judy Steinhardt, and master’s graduate Emily Webster Tetzlaff.

The Baccalaureate graduation embraced more than 500 graduates in applied psychology, art, communication, education, health, and music. The program included remarks by Dean Mary Brabeck, Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President Diane Yu, Professor Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Achievement Awardee and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, and baccalaureate graduate Martha St. Jean. The ceremony included personal handshakes on stage for each graduating student and was punctuated by the sounds of the NYU Brass Ensemble, the NYU Pipes and Drums, and the Music Theatre Ensemble. The ceremony concluded with a rousing rendition of a Steinhardt favorite, “New York, New York.”

Dean Mary Brabeck’s remarks at the doctoral graduation: We are hooding our doctoral students this evening as a special sign that we value their commitment to engaging in practice and research that will make a difference in people’s lives.As you leave us at NYU, I recommend that you learn to say, three words:  “I don’t know.”Both Pascal and Priestly taught us that as the circle of knowledge grows, so does the circumference of ignorance.You, graduates, will be working with people far different from yourselves in language of origin, nationality, ethnicity, and if you can say “I don’t know,” you will open yourself to the possibility of learning from them.

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