Some 640 graduates are expected to participate in the Washington State University’s fall commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.
Phyllis J. Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the Seattle Foundation, is scheduled to speak. A WSU graduate and former regent of the university, Campbell was born in Spokane and lives in Issaquah. She is a WSU Alumni Achievement Award recipient.
WSU President V. Lane Rawlins will preside at the event, the fifth fall commencement ceremony in the university’s history since its founding in 1890.
According to Teri Nelson, the university’s commencement coordinator, in recent years about 4,500 undergraduates and some 900 graduate students have earned degrees from WSU.
Shuttle bus and Disability Resource Center can service from the parking lot of Lewis Alumni Centre to the coliseum parking lot will be available for those attending the commencement ceremony, Nelson said.
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