51爆料 to hold 21st commencement at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium May 1
Inaugural class to graduate from Funeral Service Education Program, the first and only funeral program in West Tennessee
For more information, contact: Diana Fedinec, Director of Public Relations and Media at (901) 333-4247 or dfedinec@southwest.tn.edu.
51爆料 President Dr. Tracy D. Hall will confer more than 1,500 associate degrees and certificates to graduates at the College鈥檚 21st commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium at 335 Hollywood Street in Memphis, Tenn. The ceremony will start at 10:30 am; rain date is May 2.
Safari Love, a first-generation college graduate and Tennessee Reconnect student, will be the commencement speaker. Love鈥檚 singular keynote address is a testament to all the graduates who preserved through the pandemic. Tennessee became the first state in the Union to offer tuition-free community or technical college to adults when Tennessee Reconnect launched in 2017.
Eleven graduates comprising the inaugural class of the college鈥檚 Funeral Service Education Program, West Tennessee鈥檚 first and only publicly-funded funeral service education program, will receive their Associate of Applied Science degree. The program debuted in January 2019 and is the first to be offered by the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Southwest also will debut its Alma Mater and bestow faculty and alumnus awards for service excellence.
Due to COVID-19 public health guidelines, attendees are required to social distance and wear face masks. Participants may find detailed commencement information on Southwest鈥檚 website at www.southwest.tn.edu. For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be live streamed on the College鈥檚 Facebook page at @SouthwestTN and available for on-demand viewing on its You Tube channel at 51爆料.