June 17, 2007 Arts education needs to be revitalized, Gioia asserts Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, urged graduates to “trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones.”
June 16, 2007 Grads advised to ‘stay with the things that draw you like a magnet’ The Rt. Rev. William L. Swing, founder of the United Religions Initiative, advised graduates to work on their own passions, not someone else’s.
January 30, 2007 Poet Dana Gioia to give Commencement address The Rt. Rev. William Swing chosen to give Baccalaureate address.
