After having spent their final year at Stanislaus State in virtual and online spaces due to the pandemic, graduates from the Class of 2021 assembled on campus this week for the ultimate in-person event: Stanislaus State’s 61st Commencement.  

The University hosted six ceremonies for the Class of 2021 over three days, May 26-28, in the campus’s outdoor amphitheater. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Stan State celebrated 3,051 graduates. 

Stanislaus State awarded Central Valley community advocate, civic servant and retired educator Kenni Friedman an Honorary Doctorate of Humane 

As shock swept across the United States following George Floyd’s murder last May, Associate Professor of Psychology Aletha Harven could see that Stanislaus State’s c

Phoebe Roberts, a Stanislaus State Master of English Literature student, thought making a documentary-style presentation of her research project, “Poison and Femininity on the

The long wait finally ended for Stanislaus State’s Class of 2020 as graduates returned to campus one year later to celebrate the culmination of their hard work during the University’s first in-person Commencement ceremonies since 2019.  

Coaxed out of retirement in 2019 to lend stability as Stanislaus State’s interim associate vice president for Student Affairs, Andy Klingelhoefer was officially thanked by the University when he was n

The Class of 2021 completed its final year at Stanislaus State remotely, but Bethany Harper, Marcus Garrett Ruddicks and Riley Nicole Taylor continued to thrive academically and earned cumulative 4.0 grade-point averages during their Warrior years. 

They share the 2021 Metzger-Geiger Award for their accomplishments. 

Two months into their final college semester, members of Stanislaus State’s Class of 2020, like others across the nation, pivoted to online learning and completed their education remotely because of COVID-19.  

Further, the Class of 2020 waited a year for its commencement, and during that event, held in three ceremonies on the Stan State campus, Baylee Chance, Carina Garcia and Evan Moffitt were announced as co-winners of the Metzer-Geiger Award. 

Heather Dunn Carlton joined the Stanislaus State community when she officially became the associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students on April 12, 2021. Carlton spent the previous 14 years as the associate dean of students at the University of the Pacific, which she believes will help her as she takes on her new role at Stan State.

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