Honorary Degree Symposium: A Conversation With 2024 Honorary Degree Recipient Opal Lee
Please join Provost Elizabeth G. Loboa and the SMU Community as we cordially invite you to the Honorary Degree Symposium featuring a conversation with 2024 Honorary Degree recipient Opal Lee.
Civil Rights Icon and the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee will be in conversation with her granddaughter, Dione Sims, founding executive director of the National Juneteenth Museum. Candice Lucas-Bledsoe, director of the Action Research Center in Dallas and SMU Cox Executive Education facilitator, will moderate the discussion.
This event will take place on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 5 p.m. in the Frances Anne Moody Hall, 6404 Airline Road, Dallas, Texas 75205.
Dedicating the David B. Miller Business Quadrangle, home of the Cox School of Business
Please join the SMU Board of Trustees, SMU President R. Gerald Turner and the Cox School of Business Dean Matthew B. Myers to celebrate the dedication of the new and renovated facilities at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business this Friday, May 3, 2024 at 11:30 a.m.
SMU All-University Commencement May 2024
On Saturday morning, the All-University May Commencement assembles degree candidates from all of SMU’s schools and professional programs. The commencement speaker will offer their congratulations to our newest class of graduates and President Turner will confer degrees. Doctoral students (Ph.D., Ed.D., DE, and DLS) will receive recognition as they cross the stage. All other students receive individual recognition at their school/department ceremonies. At the conclusion of the ceremony, “Varsity” is played and a prayer is said for the new alumni.
Ceremony begins Saturday, May 11, 8:30 AM CDT.
Moody Coliseum, SMU Campus 3009 Binkley Avenue Dallas, Texas.
All times listed are Central time.
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