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COMMENCEMENT THREAD🎓🧵
#BoiseState will honor more than 2,600 spring graduates during two commencement ceremonies set for May 11 @TacoBellArena, bringing the university’s total graduates for the year to more than 4,500.

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In total, 2,633 Broncos are eligible to receive 3,049 degrees and certificates. Of those, 868 are eligible for honors: 490 cum laude, 304 magna cum laude and 74 summa cum laude. Twenty-two doctoral degrees will be awarded.

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The first celebration will be at 9:30 a.m. for graduates from @BoiseStateCOAS, @BoiseStateCOED and @BoiseStateSPS.

The second celebration at 3:30 p.m. is for graduates from @BoiseStateCOBE, @BoiseStateCOEN, @boisestateCID and College of Health Sciences.

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During the morning commencement ceremony, @hamdiulukaya, founder and CEO of @Chobani, will be awarded an honorary doctorate and speak about his life journey from a small village in eastern Turkey to eastern Idaho.

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During the afternoon commencement ceremony, Judge Sergio Gutierrez, Idaho’s first Latino judge, will receive an honorary doctorate and offer remarks on the American dream. Gutierrez served southwest Idaho from the bench for 25 years.

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Morning commencement speaker Madeline Fluharty graduates #cumlaude with a BFA in Visual Art, emphasis in sculpture. Since 2013, she has been honing her sculpting skills, on campus, under one of the greatest living sculptors in the U.S.

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Afternoon commencement speaker Nardos Ashenafi graduates #summacumlaude with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Nardos is a creative individual whose curiosity and drive to innovate knows no bounds.

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Parking for Spring Commencement is free + open to the public. Available parking includes all Commuter and Reserve parking lots, pay lots, and parking garages on campus. The West Stadium Lot will be reserved for accessible and grad parking.
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Accessible shuttles will be provided to transport Spring Commencement attendees between Lincoln Garage and @TacoBellArena beginning at 7:30 a.m. through the end of the afternoon ceremony, with one break from 12:30-1:30 p.m.

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Seating for Spring Commencement ceremonies will be on a first-come, first-seated basis. For those unable to attend the celebrations in person, live web streams will be hosted on commencement.boisestate.edu and on the #BoiseState Facebook Page: facebook.com/BoiseStateLive/.
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Graduates and Spring Commencement attendees are encouraged to use the #BoiseStateGrad hashtag to share their experience and connect with others.

Additional information and details available at commencement.boisestate.edu.

Congratulations, Class of 2019! 🎓🐴
WE ARE BRONCOS 💙🧡

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"Graduates, congratulations on reaching this important milestone in your lives. Call it sacrifice, commitment, challenge, intellectual curiosity, or tenacity—you dedicated yourself to the life of expanding the mind, and today we celebrate your arrival." - Dr. Schimpf

"You will leave this ceremony today with a sound educational foundation—well-prepared to meet the future. We anticipate seeing great things from all of you as you take your newly acquired skills and knowledge into the world." - Dr. Linda Clark, @IdSBOE
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It is customary for Boise State to confer an honorary doctoral degree upon a deserving individual each spring during this ceremony. Today, we are proud to honor @HamdiUlukaya, founder and CEO of @Chobani.
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"@HamdiUlukaya has demonstrated a lifelong dedication to serving and providing opportunities for thousands to flourish under his leadership. I am pleased to bestow upon him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for contributions to human welfare from Boise State" - Dr. Schimpf

"I can’t believe I’m here. A guy who grew up in the mountains with shepherds… and comes to this country. And makes yogurt. And is invited to speak at this state’s biggest graduation ceremony?
I mean: Are you serious? Nobody is going to believe this." - @hamdiulukaya
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"Conventional wisdom is constant. It is oppressive. It is paralyzing. In my experience, it is almost always, totally and completely, 100 percent … WRONG. And it always has been." - @hamdiulukaya
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"It’s like what my favorite poet, Rumi, who grew up where I grew up, once wrote. He said: “Conventional opinion is the ruin of souls.”
Guess when he wrote that? SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO!" - @hamdiulukaya
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"Forget what conventional wisdom says. Trust your gut. Find the place where you belong.
After all, you are graduating from a school so willing to follow its own path… that it had the courage to ask: Who says that grass has to be GREEN?" - @hamdiulukaya
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"No matter where you go, the @Chobani journey has taught me something special: what matters most, in business and in life, is the difference you make for other people, for your community, for your country, and for the world." - @hamdiulukaya
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"You're about to walk up here and get your diploma. As you walk off the stage, you might feel a little worried. A little hesitant. A little fear about the future. That the world is so big, and you are so small.
Nothing could be further from the truth." - @hamdiulukaya
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"The truth is - you couldn’t be more ready.
As Rumi wrote: “It’s time to unfold your own myth."
Just like that river that Bert Perrine found.
Just like that magic that created Magic Valley.
That power is now part of you.
I can't wait to see what you do with it." - @hamdiulukaya

"Thank you to the faculty, for encouraging us to pursue our dreams, and equipping us with the necessary knowledge and skills to accomplish what we are setting out to do." - Madeline Fluharty, commencement student speaker
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"Graduates of 2019, think about what it is that you’re afraid of? A general rule I’ve tried to set for myself is this, that thing that I’m most afraid of doing, yeah, I should probably do that. That’s the reason I’m standing in front of you today." - Madeline Fluharty
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"So, graduates of 2019, in these coming months and years what is it we are going to let define our lives – Crippling Fear, or bold love? Thank you, and congratulations Boise State graduates." - Madeline Fluharty, commencement student speaker
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In total, 2,633 Broncos are receiving 3,049 degrees and certificates. Of those, 868 are recognized for honors: 490 cum laude, 304 magna cum laude and 74 summa cum laude. Twenty-two doctoral degrees are being awarded.

Congratulations Broncos! We are so proud of you!

Our afternoon commencement graduates and their guests are ALIVE with pride @TacoBellArena! Go Broncos!

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Opening statements from Interim Provost Tony Roark, "Please remember that your educational journey is not over. We sincerely hope that the foundation of learning acquired at Boise State has ignited a passion for education and learning that will last a lifetime."
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Each spring during commencement, an honorary doctorate is awarded to recognize an individual of outstanding accomplishment in scholarship, creativity, public service, education, and human welfare.
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This afternoon’s Honorary Doctorate nominee is especially deserving: the Honorable Judge Sergio Gutierrez, Idaho’s first Latino judge, served southwest Idaho from the bench for 25 years.
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Judge Gutierrez immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico as a young child and went to work in the farm fields when he was 8. He retired from the Idaho Court of Appeals in December 2018, and frequently volunteers his time to promote various diversity, education, and leadership causes.

"I am humbled being recognized for my public and community service. I am very grateful for Dr. @AliciaGarza_ having nominated me. It is especially meaningful to me because my life's journey of public and community service began while attending BSU in 1976." - Judge Gutierrez

"I firmly believe the American Dream is still very much alive. In some respects, the story of my life mirrors the narrative arc of the typical American Dream. From nothing, to something. From migrant farmworker, to respected judge." - Judge Gutierrez
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"My story is that of an immigrant, brought to this country by parents who wanted the best for their children, but lacked the resources to do other than create - by moving to this country - the opportunity for us to succeed or fail on our own." - Judge Gutierrez
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"I realize that common themes of whatever successes I have had are also the components of my American Dream: education, sacrifice, hard work. When I imagine what may come, I envision, as in the words of Tom Brokaw, “the greatest generation” yet. That, my friends, includes you."

Nardos Ashenafi, commencement speaker, graduates summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. Her academic, creative, extra-curricular and service activities, paint a portrait of an individual whose curiosity and drive to innovate knows no bounds.

Since enrolling at #BoiseState in 2015 from her home country of Ethiopia, Nardos has succeeded in converting X-rays of knee joints into 3D models in order to discern what physiological features make patients prone to patella dislocation. #BoiseStateGrad

"I want you to really internalize the fact that we just finished obtaining the greatest, most influential superpower across time and space; one that can be passed by will, expanded by practice and improved with the need for more; KNOWLEDGE." - Nardos Ashenafi
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"We may not have noticed the character we have developed and the power obtained in the middle of assignments and exams, but this is the perfect time to understand the knowledge and experience we have is the backbone to humankind’s greatness." - Nardos Ashenafi
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In total, 2,633 Broncos are receiving 3,049 degrees + certificates. Of those, 868 are recognized for honors: 490 cum laude, 304 magna cum laude and 74 summa cum laude. Twenty-two doctoral degrees are being awarded.
Congratulations Broncos!
We are so proud of you!
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Congratulations, Class of 2019! 🎓🐴
WE ARE BRONCOS 💙🧡

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