("Pomp and Circumstance") (audience clapping and cheering) ("Pomp and Circumstance") (audience clapping and cheering) ("Pomp and Circumstance") (audience clapping and cheering) ("Pomp and Circumstance") (audience clapping and cheering) (audience chattering) - I am Jerlando Jackson, Dean of the College of Education.

Welcome to the Spring 2023 Baccalaureate Commencement Ceremony for the College of Education.

(audience clapping and cheering) Please join me in singing "America the Beautiful," led by Landon Black, a junior in the College of Music, accompanied by Michigan State University Symphony Band, composed by Samuel A.

Ward.

After singing, please remain standing for a moment of silence.

(majestic music) ♪ Oh, beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ For amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ For purple mountain majesties ♪ ♪ Above the fruited plains ♪ ♪ America, America ♪ ♪ God shed His grace on thee ♪ ♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ From sea ♪ ♪ To shining sea ♪ (audience claps and cheers) Today we bring together our graduates, along with their families and friends to honor you and your accomplishments.

We gather today while being mindful that our community is still mourning the violence our community experienced on February the 13th.

It may feel uncomfortable to celebrate while that occasion still consumes so much of our thoughts and feelings.

We are dedicated to supporting everyone who was impacted by this event, including the students who were injured, witnesses to the violence, and families of those who were injured or passed.

As we begin to sift to a celebration of your accomplishments, let us pause for a moment of silence to consider how we can live our lives in a way that honors all Spartans, including those who are no longer with us.

Thank you.

Please be seated.

(audience murmurs) Today marks an important milestone in your education, and we share your pride as we celebrate your achievement.

Next year, many of you will begin your year-long teaching internship, others have selected to enter graduate school, and some of you will embark on your first career experience.

Never have the fields of education and kinesiology been so exciting and challenging.

Your education has prepared you to meet these challenges and to view them as opportunities for making a difference in the lives of others.

The past several years have brought challenges that no one could have foreseen.

We have learned to be adaptable in ever-changing situations.

We have learned new technologies and new ways to learn.

We have learned how to care for one another.

And most importantly, we have learned that Spartans are resilient.

That is evident in the fact that we are all gathered here today to celebrate this incredible milestone you have all achieved.

We are confident as you move to the next stage of your lives that you will hold to what you have learned and bring honor to yourself and Michigan State.

This weekend and next, 16 Michigan State University colleges honor nearly 10,000 students who are graduating this spring or summer.

(audience claps and cheers) The College of Education students comprise a significant part of the student body at Michigan State.

However, each of you is, each of you is important to this institution in ways that transcend the size of your graduating class.

We honor and celebrate your commitment, determination, and accomplishment.

This year we have selected two students to offer remarks on behalf of the class of 2023.

I would like to first introduce DeLaney Heckman, a kinesiology student from Allegan, Michigan.

After graduation, she plans to apply to graduate school to become a physician's assistant.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you, Dean Jackson.

Good evening, fellow graduates, faculty, family, and friends.

I would first like to start by congratulating every 2023 MSU graduate, first and foremost for the accomplishment we celebrate today, but also for all of the small victories along the way.

Moving in and out of your freshman year dorm, figuring out which dining hall had the best food, making a friend or two, cramming for midterms and finals, your first 3:00 AM wrap from Conrad's, and, of course, passing your classes too.

Although some of our college experience may have been drastically different than anticipated, or considered untraditional, we are still sitting in these seats today.

To say our class is resilient is an understatement.

COVID-19 changed what some of us thought was going to be a year full of new experiences to one full of continuously adapting to virtual learning and praying that our professors weren't quite sure how Zoom worked.

This year alone has been difficult and filled with trying times for every MSU student.

The event that took place on campus affected not only us, but our entire Spartan community.

As Spartans, we come back stronger, and we're healing together as a community.

Spartans are family, and if it wasn't before, it has been made even more evident throughout this school year.

Well, not everyone's path may have been straight and narrow.

You may have switched your major once, or twice, or three times.

Well, you get the gist.

But what is important is that every single one of your individualized journeys led you to this moment today.

I am a prime example of this.

I started as a kinesiology major, switched to elementary education, and then finally landed back on kinesiology.

Clearly, I really love the College of Education.

(audience laughs) (laughs) I chose kinesiology because the possibilities with this degree are truly endless.

It can open so many doors, some that you didn't even know existed.

Kinesiology was the best fit for me in reaching my future aspiration of becoming a physician's assistant, and I could not have asked for a better university, faculty, or peers to have shared my educational journey with.

The College of Education is full of students and faculty that strive to help others, and this is something I greatly admire.

As very-soon-to-be-graduates of the College of Education, you should be extremely proud to be one of those individuals.

As a Spartan, you made countless choices, big, exhaustive choices such as your major, your living arrangements, and work experiences, but also smaller ones such as prioritizing school, even if it meant missing a "Bachelor" watch party, Honky Tonk Tuesday, or game day Rama at The Riv.

We are a diverse group of individuals with distinct goals.

Whether your major is education, special education, or kinesiology, you have been provided with a high-level education to leave your own indelible mark on this world.

We all do have at least one thing in common, that being, we all chose to be Spartans.

We found that this school was the best fit for us.

That this school on the banks of the Red Cedar that proudly embraces the colors green and white was where we all wanted to call home for four years.

If I could offer one piece of advice to the 2023 class, it would be to trust in yourself and your abilities.

If you have not yet, find your purpose, and if you feel you already have, embrace it.

Here you have been given the tools to do amazing things, so go do them.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Be proud of your accomplishments.

Soak all of this in.

This is a super important moment that marks another milestone in your lives, and it should not be taken lightly.

I'd like to extend a huge thank you to all MSU students, MSU staff, family, friends, and community members for guiding and believing our aspirations with grace.

Truly, each of our successes would not be possible without every single one of you.

I'd also like to specifically thank my family for answering my every day FaceTime calls and always believing in me.

I would not be where I am today without you.

In closing, Spartans are ambitious.

Spartans are innovative.

Spartans are courageous.

Spartans change the future.

And lastly, Spartans will.

Congratulations on this achievement, and I hope every single one of us will continue to represent this institution with the pride it deserves while striving to make each day a good day and helping someone along the way.

Once a Spartan, always a Spartan.

Go green.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you, DeLaney.

Our second speaker is Kara Rider, an education major from Dexter, Michigan.

Next year she will be doing her student teaching internship here in Lansing, in the Lansing area.

(audience claps and cheers) - Welcome graduates, family, friends, and faculty.

My name is Kara Rider, and I am a future elementary school teacher.

I came from a family who are Spartans through and through.

Maybe some of you, too, collected photos of yourself as a child wearing Spartan memorabilia to proudly pair with announcements that you'd be shouting, "Go green," for the rest of your life.

Maybe others chose Michigan State University to be the school where the first college graduate of anyone in their family got their degree.

Others still may have chosen MSU out of a lineup of hundreds of other colleges because you believed that it would have something in store for you.

Whatever your story is of how you got here, our stories, while they remain distinct, start to merge upon being at at MSU.

Four years ago, I stepped onto campus with an excitement unlike any other.

I had a dream of becoming a teacher, a love for the stunning greenery all across campus, and a fervent craving for MSU Dairy's ice cream.

I attended as many campus events as I could, made friends on my dorm floor, and explored every cafeteria campus had to offer, and there's a lot.

Four years ago, when I stepped onto campus, I had never heard the phrase "unprecedented times."

I had never questioned my safety in a school, never witnessed a civil rights movement firsthand, never encountered a worldwide pandemic that would shut everyone I knew into their homes for months on end.

I didn't know what Zoom was.

I had never attended a vigil.

I can't say the same anymore.

For the duration of our college career, we have watched our world morph, and shape, and twist while our brains did the exact same thing.

While we studied to be the best version of ourselves, the world's version of normalcy altered around us.

We studied hard, and we partied hard.

We laughed until we cried, and cried until we laughed.

We collected memories like one collects sand from vacation, packed tightly into small bottles because you know you'll want to remember how sweet life was when you experienced it there.

As we gathered in Spartan Stadium on Saturdays, so also we gathered in protest on the capitol lawn.

As we sang about fighting with a vim, so also we faced virtual learning.

We passed classes and passed sickness.

We sought good grades, praying for a better future.

We bought textbooks only to turn around and write texts of "I love you" before it was too late.

We saw pandemic, and presidents, and precedents, and protest.

They say knowledge is power, but only when you have the power to actually do something.

When I reflect on what I thought college would look like, I see a girl who is curious, but now before you is a woman who is strong.

Beside you are people who have overcome, between academics and athletics, tears and fear, bumps and bruises, classes and COVID, college has certainly been something I never dreamed it would be.

It taught us resilience, how to face impossible situations head-on and still succeed.

It taught us to mourn, how to honor those we've lost, and embrace one another fully.

College taught us the importance of connection, of friendship, and time together.

It taught us the power we have when we learn to use our voices.

It taught us to embrace normal and still strive for excellence.

It taught us to make the most of what we have.

Classroom lectures and football Saturdays are not forever.

College brought us memories, and friends, and colleagues, and mentors beyond our expectations, brought community to rally with on our darkest days.

Michigan State University is more than a place.

It's more than an institution.

It's a home and a launching pad, and will forevermore represent the part of our lives where we became something more than just our individual self.

College may not have been what we thought, but it's presented opportunities beyond our imagination.

We dreamed about what these past four years would look like.

Let's continue to dream about what the future holds.

Congratulations, class of 2023.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you, Kara.

The MSU Symphony Band will now present a "Fantasy of MSU Songs" composed by James Curnow and conducted by Michael Parker.

(pensive music) (suspenseful music) (gentle bright music) (suspenseful music) (bright music) (bright music continues) (lively music) (bright music) (bright music continues) (bright music continues) (lively music) (lively music continues) ♪ Go right through for MSU ♪ ♪ Watch the points keep growing ♪ ♪ Spartan teams are bound to win ♪ ♪ They're fighting with a vim ♪ ♪ Rah, rah, rah ♪ ♪ See their team is weak ♪ ♪ We're going to win this game ♪ ♪ Fight, fight!

Rah, team, fight ♪ ♪ Victory for MSU ♪ (suspenseful music) (majestic music) (audience claps and cheers) Thank you, Mr. Parker and members of the MSU Symphony Band.

(audience claps and cheers) At this time, Kristine Bowman, Associate Dean, will recognize those that have received the Board of Trustees' Award and present Scholastic Achievement Awards for the College of Education, and recognize graduates of the class of 2023.

(audience claps and cheers) - We wish to pay tribute to graduates who not only completed their academic programs successfully, but who have the distinction of having maintained the highest grade point averages in the class, thereby meriting the Board of Trustees' Award.

To be eligible for this prestigious award, at least 3/4 of the credits for the degree must be earned in residence at Michigan State University.

Will the students who are present please stand and remain standing as your names are called?

And I request that we hold our applause until all are introduced.

Alphabetically, these students are Alexandra Anderson, a kinesiology major.

DeLaney Hickman, a kinesiology major.

Anne Henseler, an education major.

Sam Huller, a special education major.

(audience member cheers) Cathryn Mandryk, an education major.

Abigail Oberhofer, a kinesiology major.

(audience members cheer) Rachel Pereira, a special education major.

Brooke Scherer, an education major.

(audience member cheers) Samantha Vansumeren, a kinesiology major.

And Abigail Zaremba, a kinesiology major.

Each of you should be proud of the outstanding academic record that honors you and your university.

On behalf of your classmates, the faculty, the officers and trustees of the university, I extend sincere congratulations and best wishes.

Please join me in applause for the class of '23 Board of Trustees' recipients.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Hey!

(audience laughs) - We also wish to pay tribute to the students who have earned the highest grade point averages in the College of Education undergraduate majors of education, kinesiology, and special education.

Will the students who are present please come forward when your name is announced and accept a plaque in recognition of your outstanding achievement.

We have three students representing the education major, all with perfect 4.0s.

Anne Henseler.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you.

- Now you take (speaks faintly) - Okay.

- Cathryn Mandryk.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Cathryn] Thank you so much.

- Brooke Scherer.

(audience claps and cheers) We have two students in the special education major, both with perfect 4.0s.

Sam Huller (audience claps and cheers) and Rachel Pereira.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Yeah, Rachel!

- In the kinesiology major, we have five students graduating with a GPA of 4.0.

Alexandra Anderson.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Alexandra] Thank you.

- DeLaney Heckman.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you.

- Abigail Oberhofer.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you.

- Samantha Vansumeren.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you.

- And Abigail Zaremba.

(audience claps and cheers) Each of you should be proud of the outstanding academic record that honors you, your family, the College of Education, and the university.

On behalf of your classmates as well as faculty, advisors, and administrators in the College of Education, I extend sincere congratulations and best wishes.

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

As you know, excelling in college is not just about grades.

Learning and personal development take many forms, so there are many other graduates that we want to recognize today.

We also wish to recognize members of Phi Epsilon Kappa, an academic fraternity for kinesiology students, who are wearing black and gold honor cords, and members of Kappa Delta Pi, the education honorary, who are wearing purple and green honor cords.

Will you please stand if you're wearing one of these honor cords, and let us recognize you?

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

In recognition of Michigan State University's ongoing commitment to education abroad, I ask all graduates who participated in an education abroad program during their years at MSU to stand so that we may recognize you.

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

Additionally, degree candidates in the Urban Educators Cohort Program, UECP, and the Global Educators Cohort Program, GECP, are wearing light blue honor cords.

Will you stand so we may recognize you?

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

Students who fulfill requirements of the Honors College by completing enriched programs of study are wearing white stoles with the HC designation.

Will all students graduating as members of the Honors College please stand and accept our congratulations?

(audience claps and cheers) (audience member shouts) You may be seated.

In recognition of the university's ongoing commitment to undergraduate research, will all students who participated in research while at MSU please rise so we may recognize you?

(audience claps and cheers) And please remain standing if you presented your work at URAF.

Congratulations.

(audience claps and cheers) Will all students who were active in a student organization during their time at MSU please rise so that we may recognize you?

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

Students who attained grade point averages between 3.95 and 4.0 are awarded university high honor.

University honor is awarded to students who have earned grade point averages between 3.81 and 3.94.

Both of these honors are designated by gold honor cords.

Will all students graduating with high honor or honor please stand and accept our congratulations?

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

Finally, and I think most importantly, let's talk about the importance of service.

Don't ever forget that helping others is part of the Spartan tradition.

So, you know what's coming.

Will everyone who volunteered their time in an effort to help others during their years at MSU please stand so that we may honor you.

(audience claps and cheers) You may be seated.

We are incredibly proud of your service, and we hope it will continue throughout the rest of your lives in the Spartan tradition.

We commend all of you for your incredible contributions.

(audience claps and cheers) - At this time, we will honor the baccalaureate degree recipients from the College of Education as they are presented by their departmental chairs.

The candidates for the Department of Teacher Education will be presented by Dr. Carter Andrews, chairperson of the department.

(audience claps and cheers) - Will the candidates from the Department of Teacher Education at both the elementary and secondary education levels, and including the Urban Educators Cohort Program and Global Educators Cohort Program, please rise?

(audience claps and cheers) Dean Jackson, these candidates have completed all department and college requirements, and on behalf of the faculty, I present them to you for the awarding of their degrees.

Candidates, please remain standing.

- The candidates for the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education will be presented by Dr. Cary Roseth, chairperson of the department.

- Will the candidates from the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education with majors in special education, please rise?

(audience claps and cheers) Dean Jackson, these amazing candidates have completed all department and college requirements, and on behalf of the faculty, I present them to you for the awarding of their degrees.

Candidates, please remain standing.

- The candidates from the Department of Kinesiology will be presented by Dr. Paddy Ekkekakis, chairperson of the department.

- Will the candidates from the Department of Kinesiology with majors in kinesiology, please rise?

(audience claps and cheers) Dean Jackson, these candidates have completed all department and college requirements, and on behalf of the faculty, I present them to you for the awarding of their degrees.

Candidates, please remain standing.

- On behalf of the interim president who has been delegated to her the authority of the state of Michigan, vested in the Board of Trustees, I confer upon all of you the degrees for which you have been recommended, with all of the rights and distinctions to which you are entitled.

According to the custom, you may now move your tassels from the right side of your caps (audience claps and cheers) to the left side, signifying that you have earned a baccalaureate degree.

Congratulations, MSU alumni.

Please be seated.

(audience claps and cheers) This act represents a great achievement, and marks the beginning of a lifetime of dedicated service.

It is an achievement worthy of celebration, and today we applaud the fact that more than 500 men and women have completed the academic programs of their choice in the College of Education.

We now welcome Mark Bashore and Jamie Paisley to the microphone to announce the names of the graduates as they receive their diplomas.

I ask that the new graduates be escorted to the platform to receive a token diploma.

Graduates should return to their seats after receiving their diplomas.

We ask the audience to be considerate in celebrating as the graduates' names are read.

We want each graduate name to be heard, so feel free to cheer loudly, but briefly, (audience laughs) (laughs) for a friend or family member.

Each graduating senior is a member of the Spartan family, and we hope that you will show the same respect for the last graduate as you will for the first.

Will the students on the platform please come forward now to begin the procession of graduates?

(audience clapping and cheering) College of Education.

Go ahead.

Keep going.

Okay.

- Thank you.

(clears throat) Rachel Pereira with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Brooke Scherer with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Cate Mandryk with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Annie Henseler with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Kara Rider with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) DeLaney May Heckman with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Abby Zaremba with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Sammy Vansumeren with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Abby Oberhofer with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexandra Anderson with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) From the major in kinesiology.

Madeline Grace Poirier.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] You're the best!

(audience members shout) - Rachel McDonald.

(audience claps and cheers) Kathryn Sarlund.

(audience claps and cheers) Justin Felts.

(audience claps and cheers) Brooke Young.

(audience claps and cheers) Ben Blessing.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Williams.

(audience claps and cheers) Caroline Meyer with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jaiden Figurski.

(audience claps and cheers) Brennan Long.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Brennan!

(audience claps and cheers) - Courtney Carls with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Noelle Elizabeth Meingast with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ashley Adiwidjaja.

(audience claps and cheers) Emma Louise Anttila with high honors.

- [Audience Member] Yeah, Emma!

(audience claps and cheers) - Alyssa Rose Kanclerz.

(audience claps and cheers) Abigail Bowser.

(audience claps and cheers) Cameron Hang.

(audience claps and cheers) Shalyaah Dinee Conley with honors.

(audience shrieks) Natalie Aziz.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Natalie!

- Janiya Welsh.

(audience claps and cheers) Fallyn?

Fallyn Boston.

(audience claps and cheers) Rachel Rothrock.

(audience claps and cheers) Bria Schrotenboer.

(audience claps and cheers) (announcer speaks faintly) Allyson Childers.

(audience claps and cheers) Natalie Haddis.

(audience claps and cheers) Mackenzie Rugg.

(audience claps and cheers) Molly Stothard.

(audience claps and cheers) McInnis Woodland.

(audience claps and cheers) Eleanor Sheridan.

(audience claps and cheers) Paige Eno with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Grace Zadrzynski.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Bazick.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Sicklesteel with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Amanda Dumouchelle.

(audience claps and cheers) Ashton Goodwin with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Anna Forshey with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Mackenzie Meech.

(audience claps and cheers) Amanvir Singh.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexander Dejordy.

(audience claps and cheers) Cullen Wiley.

(audience claps and cheers) Justin Batdorf.

(audience claps and cheers) Aaron Garcia II.

(audience claps and cheers) Habetler.

Katelyn Habetler with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Brooke Johnson.

(audience claps and cheers) Charlotte Sass with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Helmholdt.

(audience claps and cheers) Connor Albrecht.

(audience claps and cheers) Joshua Chirackal with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jack Killingbeck.

(audience claps and cheers) Deangelo Stanley.

(audience claps and cheers) Jake Perry.

(audience claps and cheers) Aubrey Howieson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Antoine Gilder Jr. (audience claps and cheers) Megan Yount.

(audience claps and cheers) Laila Aleksandra Klavins with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Michelle Vinita.

(audience claps and cheers) Taylor Plummer.

(audience claps and cheers) Amber Scott.

(audience claps and cheers) Allie Lumberg with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Emily Riddle.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Davies.

(audience claps and cheers) Hope Marie Koester.

- [Audience Member] Let's go, Hope!

- Candace Carr with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jenna Zweng.

(audience claps and cheers) Alison Blackmore.

(audience claps and cheers) Reilly Ford.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] We love Reilly!

- Riya Hathi.

(audience claps and cheers) Joanna Davis.

(audience claps and cheers) Amanda Soriano.

(audience claps and cheers) Alec Lozano.

(audience claps and cheers) Shanel Baxter.

(audience claps and cheers) Madilyn Pitcher-Reinhard.

(audience claps and cheers) Jacob Phillips.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] We love you!

- Samuel Gross.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] I'll ride with you!

- Ryuku Charles Tsuji.

(audience claps and cheers) Brody Lineman with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Josephine Szlachetka with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Zachary Stein.

(audience claps and cheers) Brandon Harnden.

(audience claps and cheers) Josie Richard with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jenna Zettle with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Tayler, good job!

- Tayler Garver.

(audience claps and cheers) Ethan Augustin.

(audience claps and cheers) Brendan Henry.

(audience claps and cheers) Christopher Ribaudo.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Let's go, buddy!

Come on!

- Stefan Trifunovic.

(audience claps and cheers) River Melcher.

(audience claps and cheers) Landon Moreno with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Hella yeah!

Let's go!

- Kaley Malden.

(audience claps and cheers) Kennedy Goudie.

(audience claps and cheers) Lexi Williams.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Lexi!

(audience claps and cheers) - Kamryn Van Dyke.

(audience claps and cheers) Ariana Henke.

(audience claps and cheers) Elise Davis with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Elise!

- Cara Younkin.

(audience claps and cheers) Marina Nicole Traub.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Oh yeah, Marina!

- [Audience Member] Marina!

- Aaron Parker.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] That's my bestie!

(audience claps and cheers) - Adama Danpollo.

(audience claps and cheers) Kendall Rogers.

(audience claps and cheers) (audience member yells) Joshua Clark.

(audience claps and cheers) Katie Kirkorian.

(audience claps and cheers) Kaity Anstey.

(audience claps and cheers) Caitlin Brown with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jaclyn Deprez with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Josie Funston.

(audience claps and cheers) Jacob Danes with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Liam Darr.

(audience claps and cheers) (audience laughs) Majie.

Zachary Majie.

(audience claps and cheers) Caleigh Genevieve Groff.

(audience claps and cheers) Lydia Zavinsky.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexandra Wahl.

(audience claps and cheers) Anthony Weykamp.

(audience claps and cheers) Theresa Deutsch with honors.

Therese Deutsch with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexa Baughman with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Josh Paquin.

(audience claps and cheers) Rodrick Motley II.

(audience claps and cheers) Ethan Labay.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Ethan!

- Jack Dawson.

(audience claps and cheers) Barry Butler III.

(audience claps and cheers) Tate Dziewiatkowski.

(audience claps and cheers) Reiman?

Katherine Reiman.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Ashley Palus.

(audience claps and cheers) Prerna Merchant.

(audience claps and cheers) Tyler Schisler with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ella Brodeur.

(audience claps and cheers) Abbey Johnson with honor.

(audience claps and cheers) Sara Spanogle with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Sydney Shea McCann.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Shine.

- [Audience Member] Go Sarah!

(audience claps and cheers) - Sydney Brie MacPherson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Rachel Kent.

(audience claps and cheers) Emily Goodman.

(audience claps and cheers) Allyson Marie Dunn.

(audience claps and cheers) Riley Corcoran.

(audience claps and cheers) (audience member yells) Avery Burrell.

(audience claps and cheers) - Thank you.

(audience claps and cheers) - Tony Barash.

(audience claps and cheers) Cecilee Max-Brown.

(audience claps and cheers) Brianna Wolvin.

(audience claps and cheers) Amani Janae Nuels.

(audience claps and cheers) Evie Hall.

(audience claps and cheers) Mia Dickow.

(audience claps and cheers) Kaitlyn Hesse with honors.

- [Audience Member] Yeah, Kaitlyn!

(audience claps and cheers) - Kanellopoulos?

Melina Kanellopoulos with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Woo!

Yeah, Melina!

- Sydney Matsubara with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Elyse Brown with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Marly Carosella.

- [Audience Member] Yeah, Marly!

Woo!

(audience claps and cheers) - Mikaila Isaac.

(audience claps and cheers) Joshua Kipp.

(audience claps and cheers) Ashley Brownsberger.

(audience claps and cheers) Mackenzie Kopf.

(audience claps and cheers) Katie Miller.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Yeah, Katie!

- Zoe Emma Pritchard.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Parker.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Elise MacDonald.

(audience claps and cheers) Emma Galeota.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Harris.

(audience claps and cheers) Derrick Ruddock.

(audience claps and cheers) Josh Simmet with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - Yeah, thank you.

- Paige Sinacori.

(audience claps and cheers) Lexi Guarini.

(audience claps and cheers) Erin Conroy.

(audience claps and cheers) Sierra Hall.

(audience claps and cheers) Morgan Joanne Schramm.

(audience claps and cheers) Jas Aryal.

(audience claps and cheers) James Cardwell with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Urvil?

Urvil Patel.

(audience claps and cheers) Nick Elliot with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Here we go, Nick!

- Patrick Partin.

(audience claps and cheers) Harry Ditullio.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexis Villegas.

(audience claps and cheers) Carolina Hernandez.

(audience claps and cheers) Gabrielle Green with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Cassie Stevens.

(audience claps and cheers) Sydney Lauren Tiefry.

(audience claps and cheers) Nicholas Cronk.

(audience claps and cheers) Michelle Levin.

(audience claps and cheers) Samantha Orlowski.

(audience claps and cheers) Bailey Pease with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Emily Petrosky with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) We're getting close.

Deallante Paris Davis.

(audience claps and cheers) Ayanna Collier.

(audience claps and cheers) Nya Clark.

(audience claps and cheers) Ian Mcallister.

(audience claps and cheers) Drew Johnston with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Cecelia Lynne Yvonne Adams.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Wall.

(audience claps and cheers) Morgan Phipps with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) (audience member yells) Adrian Gligor.

(audience claps and cheers) Anna Grace Agro.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Sprau.

(audience claps and cheers) Cassie White.

(audience claps and cheers) Jessica Jade Easterbrook with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Abby Patricia Hand.

(audience claps and cheers) Nicole Parvin.

(audience claps and cheers) Maria Lena Honginford with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Think that's it.

Kathleen Chamberlin.

- [Audience Member] Go Katie!

(audience claps and cheers) (audience chattering) - Kaitlyn Petrosky.

(audience claps and cheers) Bolda?

Megan Bolda.

(audience claps and cheers) Jordan Babbie with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ben Oles with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Normand Xavier with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ian Frederick.

(audience claps and cheers) Chloe Bullough.

(audience claps and cheers) Brianna Keelin Smith with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexis Sakelaris.

(audience claps and cheers) Jiwon Kim.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Hess.

(audience claps and cheers) A'Nya Griffin.

(audience claps and cheers) Riley Laycock.

(audience claps and cheers) Parker Kent.

(audience claps and cheers) Rocky Saenz.

(audience claps and cheers) Aniessa Conway.

(audience claps and cheers) Lily Cooper.

(audience claps and cheers) Chanelle Lochrie.

(audience claps and cheers) Corbin Homer.

(audience claps and cheers) Cody VanderHorst.

(audience claps and cheers) Benjamin Sager with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Joey Sager with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Lucas Gibson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Justin Bowman.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Justin!

- Aaron Radecki.

(audience claps and cheers) Nadia Raei.

(audience claps and cheers) Lindsey Ammons.

(audience claps and cheers) Jeff Alkoraishi.

(audience claps and cheers) Kristina Kowalchik with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ryan Strathearn.

- [Audience Member] Yay, Ryan!

(audience claps and cheers) - Andrew Vieregge.

(audience claps and cheers) Alex VanNocker.

(audience claps and cheers) From the major in education.

Taryn Tucker.

(audience claps and cheers) Mary-Ashtyn Thomas.

(audience claps and cheers) Allison Thornton.

(audience claps and cheers) Megan Gage.

(audience claps and cheers) Abigail Brouwer.

(audience claps and cheers) Kai He.

(audience claps and cheers) Anna Blasy.

(audience claps and cheers) Isabel Wheeler.

(audience claps and cheers) Adrianna Pipe.

(audience claps and cheers) Alex Soper.

(audience claps and cheers) Maliah Alissah Riley with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Daria Baginskis.

(audience claps and cheers) Anastasia, stasia?

Stasia.

Anastasia Saura with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Emily Row.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Palacios.

(audience claps and cheers) Alex Blacketer.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Alex!

- Aoge Huang.

(audience claps and cheers) Alyssa Nicole Dickerson.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Yay, Alyssa!

- Troy Herd.

(audience claps and cheers) Tayler Deanne Warren.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Nagy with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Emily Catherine Huhta with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Taylor Findley.

(audience claps and cheers) Tuesdae Clark.

(audience claps and cheers) Abigail Brown with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Demasse.

(audience claps and cheers) Adrianna Opoka.

(audience claps and cheers) Heidi Mackel with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Catherine Larsen with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Carly Jane Hoekstra with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Splendore.

(audience claps and cheers) Lana Thompson.

(audience claps and cheers) Trevor Czech.

(audience claps and cheers) Bailey Patterson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Maiah Jezak with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Breyana Spencer.

(audience claps and cheers) Kyle Kelly.

(audience claps and cheers) Zoe Thrall.

(audience claps and cheers) Morgan Jones.

(audience claps and cheers) Kamryn Davis.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Koviak with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Kamryn Harding.

(audience claps and cheers) Sophie Irene Cooper.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Ortmann.

(audience claps and cheers) Gina Tocco.

(audience claps and cheers) Anna Ackerman.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison McKee with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Alexis Lehmkuhl with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Katelyn Kennedy with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Mackenzie Boillat.

(audience claps and cheers) Kathryn Severino with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Maddisen Romaine Chinavare.

(audience claps and cheers) Alyssa Boyer with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Madelyn Hardey with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Karlee Owen.

(audience claps and cheers) Jayden Calkis.

(audience claps and cheers) Paige Elisabeth Drob.

(audience claps and cheers) Maggie Lichtman.

(audience claps and cheers) Zach Sprague.

- [Audience Member] Yeah, Zach!

(audience claps and cheers) - Marlena Young.

(audience claps and cheers) Ian Little.

(audience claps and cheers) Natalie Wietecha with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Alana Hotfield, Hatfield.

(audience claps and cheers) Hannah Roehrig.

(audience claps and cheers) Larmay?

Larmee.

Elizabeth Larmee.

(audience claps and cheers) Yaoyao Lu.

(audience claps and cheers) Mingxian Qiu.

(audience claps and cheers) Barbara Burch.

(audience claps and cheers) Kallie Victoria Jordan with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Faith Harper.

(audience claps and cheers) Yaoyu Xia.

(audience claps and cheers) Julia Ayrault.

(audience claps and cheers) Payton Hubert.

(audience claps and cheers) Natalie Thomas with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Eileen?

Alilyn.

Alilyn Purcell.

(audience claps and cheers) Molly Peterson.

(audience claps and cheers) Bailey Clark.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Cary with honors.

Cory with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Maxey.

(audience claps and cheers) Marni Ayne Schafer.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Yeah, Marni!

- Joanne Blair Fogarasi.

(audience claps and cheers) Kendall Kemp with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Wenwen Song with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Yichao Teng with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Shiyi Zhang.

(audience claps and cheers) Vanessa Curtis.

(audience claps and cheers) Wendy Cueto.

(audience claps and cheers) Maya Murray.

(audience claps and cheers) Jennifer Ackerman with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Aliza Schwartz.

(audience claps and cheers) Justin Lupenec.

(audience claps and cheers) Julia Griesser.

(audience claps and cheers) Joanna Uhi Chang.

(audience claps and cheers) Asia Ruiz-Newton.

(audience claps and cheers) Morgan Elizabeth Fleischmann.

- [Audience Member] Yeah, Morgan!

(audience claps and cheers) - Xiajie Ni.

(audience claps and cheers) Boxin Zhao.

(audience claps and cheers) Sidney Lamb with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Deena Marie Szalay with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Elizabeth Vogt.

(audience claps and cheers) Sydney Page.

(audience claps and cheers) Blaire Michelle Thibaudeau with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Celeste Wasco with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Cosette Michelle Futoran with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Margaret Schowalter with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Imani Rose.

(audience claps and cheers) Asiya Dinki.

(audience claps and cheers) Jude Ran.

(audience claps and cheers) Kathleen Farmer.

(audience claps and cheers) Kathryn Murray.

- [Audience Member] Let's go!

(audience claps and cheers) - Claudia Spence.

(audience claps and cheers) Abigail Dunn.

(audience claps and cheers) Sierra Cairns with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Emma Kennis with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Isabelle Reeber.

(audience claps and cheers) Madeleine Cole with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jamie Rozell with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Sydney McClean with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Morgan Webb.

(audience claps and cheers) Alyssa Kozak.

(audience claps and cheers) Erin Robinson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Tina Marie Vitale.

(audience claps and cheers) Alison Jane Turner.

(audience claps and cheers) Bridget Tweedle.

- [Audience Member] Yay, Bridget!

- Ashley Bloom with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Joel Fudge with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Amanda Dern with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Qaddoumi with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Trinity Belcher.

(audience claps and cheers) Lauren Jane Hall.

(audience claps and cheers) Madelyn Elizabeth Kwiecinski.

(audience claps and cheers) Mary Rafferty.

(audience claps and cheers) Erica Zimlich.

(audience claps and cheers) Hannah Kay Kinzler with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Jessica Carmean.

(audience claps and cheers) Mingyu Sun with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) David Yin.

(audience claps and cheers) Caroline Coon with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Madison Johnson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Speaker] Next college?

- [Announcer] Yeah, it's a good switch.

Good switch.

Take it.

(audience cheering) - From the major in special education.

Jacob Justice.

(audience claps and cheers) Elizabeth Grace Brent.

(audience claps and cheers) Kennedy Marie Aswegen.

(audience claps and cheers) Kathryn Kosztowny with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ashley Kopec with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Caroline Badrak with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ashley France.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Groszkiewicz with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Olivia Perttunen with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Isabella Swaninger.

(audience claps and cheers) Gabriela Magliozzi.

(audience claps and cheers) Brooke Johnson with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Nicholas Mansfield with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Ava Harding with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Kendall Danielle Himebauch.

(audience claps and cheers) Margaret Joanne O'Brien with honors.

- [Audience Member] Yay, Maggie!

- Nicholas Arnoldy.

(audience claps and cheers) Chloe Ruelle.

(audience claps and cheers) Kylee Foxx.

(audience claps and cheers) Jacob Pullman.

(audience claps and cheers) Jordan Robert Altobelli.

(audience claps and cheers) Reanna Klein with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Clara Smith.

(audience claps and cheers) Sophia Clegg.

(audience claps and cheers) Madeline Lewis.

(audience claps and cheers) Shengyi Li with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Kirsten Paik with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Anabelle Jane Russell with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Grace Cohen Stuart.

(audience claps and cheers) Hannah Waldron.

(audience claps and cheers) Rebecca Glass with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Maddy Sexton with high honors.

- [Audience Member] Maddy!

- Emma Lynn Hofer with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Sarah Mackenzie Miles.

(audience claps and cheers) Sam Harper Huller with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Aidan Lutz with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Melanie Sutton.

(audience claps and cheers) Kenidee Trafford.

(audience claps and cheers) Julia Moll with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Julia!

- Jessica Bain with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Dana DeCarteret.

(audience claps and cheers) Zainab Saeed-Ali with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) With degrees in secondary education.

Robin Morales with high honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Caitlin Edwards.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] You did it!

- Vincent Guerrieri.

(audience claps and cheers) Longhui Ban.

(audience claps and cheers) Aaron Amadio Iturralde with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Brodie Landstra.

(audience claps and cheers) Andrew Hammond.

(audience claps and cheers) Samuel Welch with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) Banxiu Liao.

(audience claps and cheers) Carcia Young.

(audience claps and cheers) Ryan Verner.

(audience claps and cheers) Nicholas Porco.

(audience claps and cheers) Megan Adgerson.

(audience claps and cheers) Caitlin Williams.

(audience claps and cheers) Erika Rae Gardner.

(audience claps and cheers) Delayne D. Richie.

(audience claps and cheers) Clara Ann Tait with honors.

(audience claps and cheers) And Nicholas Tu.

(audience claps and cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Nicholas!

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Woo!

Let's go!

(audience claps and cheers) Let's go!

Woo!

(audience claps and cheers) (audience members shout and laugh) (audience claps and cheers) - College of Education faculty members share in our celebration of these graduates.

The faculty's contributions to their success have been essential, and are a source of great pride to us.

College of Education faculty members are deeply committed to contributing to their professions through research, service, and the preparation of future leaders.

The reputation of our college's faculty and programs has again been recognized within the recent release of the 2023 edition of the "U.S. News & World Report" rankings of graduate programs.

For the 29th consecutive year, our graduate programs in elementary and secondary education have been ranked number one in the nation.

(audience claps and cheers) In total, nine programs are currently ranked in the annual publications of top programs and specialties.

We hope you share our pride in these rankings.

They reflect the dedication of our faculty, the quality of our programs, the support of our dedicated staff, and the achievements of our students and graduates.

I hope you will appreciate the value added to your baccalaureate degree because it was earned at an internationally prestigious university and a college of education with a consistently strong reputation.

Now it is fitting that I ask those representing the faculty to rise and accept our gratitude for their contributions to the education of our graduates.

We appreciate your fine work.

(audience clapping and cheering) There's another group of individuals who have made important contributions to the success of our graduates.

Our advisors have guided and supported these graduates from summer orientation through our commencement ceremony today.

They have answered questions, solved problems.

They have been a source of encouragement when expectations seemed overwhelming or the right path was hard to find.

They have cheered our graduates on as they developed from new freshmen on their first, for their first time on campus to young adults ready to take their place in the world.

They have also assisted with our ceremony today.

I asked the College of Education advisors to rise and be recognized for their important work.

(audience clapping and cheering) And there's yet another important group of individuals who have contributed love, understanding, and support, emotional as well as financial, as they share in the achievements we recognize today.

Accordingly, we ask the families of the graduates to rise and give us an opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation.

(audience clapping and cheering) I also thank our readers, Mike Bashore and Jamie Paisley, and a special thanks to Robin Lenkart for helping to coordinate this event.

(audience claps and cheers) Finally, the College of Education Alumni Board of Directors wishes to congratulate each of you.

We are confident that you take with you new perspectives and innovative ideas that will shape the society of tomorrow and contribute in meaningful ways to the learning and wellbeing of others, and we want to hear all about it.

Let us know where life takes you via email, social media, or the alumni website, and we will celebrate with you.

Please consider donating your time and talents to the college.

The college's alumni board of directors facilitates connections between alumni and our current students through events, outreach, and scholarships.

We look forward to learning more about your interest and engaging with you in the future.

I now invite all of you who can join singing the Alma Mater "MSU Shadows."

We will be accompanied by the MSU Symphony Band and Landon Black.

Guests may meet their graduates upstairs.

(audience claps and cheers) (dignified music) ♪ MSU, we love thy shadows ♪ ♪ When twilight silence falls ♪ ♪ Flushing deep and softly paling ♪ ♪ O'er ivy-covered halls ♪ ♪ Beneath the pines we'll gather ♪ ♪ To give our faith so true ♪ ♪ Sing our love for Alma Mater ♪ ♪ And thy praises, MSU ♪ (audience claps and cheers) (lively music) ♪ Go right through for MSU ♪ ♪ Watch the points keep growing ♪ ♪ Spartan teams are bound to win ♪ ♪ They're fighting with a vim ♪ ♪ Rah, rah, rah ♪ ♪ See their team is weak ♪ ♪ We're going to win this game ♪ ♪ Fight, fight!

Rah, team, fight ♪ ♪ Victory for MSU ♪