Provost announces 2010-11 commencement speakers

Seniors Shabrelle Pollock and Andrew Merki have been selected to give the student speeches during the IU-Bloomington undergraduate ceremonies on May 7, Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson announced today.

“Shabrelle and Andrew demonstrate what it means to make the most of an Indiana University education,” Hanson said in a press release. “Their academic credentials are outstanding, and they have brought tremendous energy, enthusiasm and idealism to their many community and service activities. Their commencement speeches will interest and inspire their fellow graduates.”

Merki will speak at the morning ceremony and Pollock will speak in the afternoon.
Patricia R. Miller, co-founder of Vera Bradley Designs and former Indiana Secretary of Commerce, will speak to both undergraduate ceremonies on May 7. William G. Bowen, former president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and of Princeton University, will speak at the ceremony for graduate students.

The commencement ceremony for students in business; education; the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; the School of Public and Environmental Affairs; music; nursing and social work will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and the ceremony for students in the College of Arts and Sciences, continuing studies, informatics and computing, journalism and optometry will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place at Assembly Hall.