President of the Senate of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Senator the Hon. Julie LaShell Adderley, will headline the list of speakers at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) 101st graduation exercises to be held August 8 to 11, 2024 under the theme Empowered for Excellence: Poised for Greatness. Under 600 graduates will be conferred with degrees and diplomas.
Senator Adderley, a distinguished attorney-at-law and economist, will deliver the keynote address at the first of two Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, August 11 (8:00 a.m.), at which time NCU will bestow upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
The Commencement speaker in the afternoon (2:00 p.m.) will be Dr Paul Douglas, treasurer at the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists World Church. He, too, will be the recipient of an honorary degree -Doctor of Commerce.
In a congratulatory message to the 2024 graduating class, NCU President, Professor Lincoln Edwards said their “achievement today is extremely significant as statistics presented by The Global Economy.com, and other research organisations report that only 27 per cent of Jamaicans are able to access tertiary education, and you are now included in this statistic.”
The graduation exercises begin on Thursday, August 8 in the Gymnatorium on the NCU Mandeville Campus with the staging of the Nursing Thanksgiving and Pinning Service at 9:00 a.m. Guest speaker at this service will be Dr Robert Terrelonge, adjunct professor at Long Island University in New York, United States.
The Consecration Service will be held Friday, August 9 at 7:00 p.m. with guest speaker Pastor Coneil Morgan, who is the coordinator of Adventist Possibility and Evangelism Ministries at the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. On the following day, Saturday, August 10, the Baccalaureate Service will be held 11:00 a.m. followed by the Graduating Class Programme at 4:00 p.m. The Baccalaureate address will be delivered by Pastor Terry Tanis, director of youth, stewardship and family ministries at the Atlantic Caribbean Union of Seventh-day Adventists.
In addition to the conferral of degrees on Sunday, August 11, NCU will present three special awards. University employees Bryan Johnson and David McLean will be awarded the President’s Medallion for 2024. This year’s Product Sample Award will go to NCU alumna from the university’s first nursing graduating class, and now nursing practitioner, Ms. Beverley McPherson. The Department of Nursing is celebrating the 50th anniversary of producing graduates with the Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing.
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