Shasta College announces its 66th Annual Commencement ceremony which will take place on Friday, May 20, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Memorial Stadium (football field). To date, there are 885 applications for diplomas, 190 applications for certificates, and approximately 495 confirmed participants in the commencement ceremony.
Dr. Helen Benjamin, Chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District, is this year’s commencement speaker. Dr. Benjamin is in her eleventh year as Chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District (District). Dr. Benjamin has a Bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish from Bishop College in Texas where she graduated magna cum laude, and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. She has never lost sight of her roots as a teacher, having taught high school English in the Dallas Independent School District, and looks for opportunities to turn challenges into teachable moments.
Dr. Benjamin is a board member of the Kennedy-King Scholarship Memorial College Scholarship Fund, a county-wide effort to provide District students financial support to continue their educational goals at a four-year or graduate institution. At the state level, Dr. Benjamin serves as the immediate Past Chair of the California Community College League Board of Directors. At the national level, she is a member of the Presidents’ Round Table, an affiliate organization of the National Council on Black American Affairs, and is a member of President Obama’s Commission on the Future. In addition, Dr. Benjamin serves on the board of Excelsior College located in Albany, New York.
We congratulate all of our graduates and certificate recipients on this outstanding educational achievement.
