MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
May 07, 2007
Congressman Dennis Kucinich to deliver commencement address for Mandel Center, Mandel School graduation ceremony
U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich, six-term congressman from Cleveland's west side and a former mayor of the city, will deliver this year’s commencement address to the joint Mandel Center and Mandel School 2007 diploma ceremony.
"We are very pleased to have Congressman Kucinich as our speaker,” says Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Dean Grover C. “Cleve” Gilmore. “The Congressman has worked with our students in his local office and has hired our graduates. He knows intimately the value of the education that our students receive. Furthermore, he shares the passion for social justice that is at the heart of the mission of the Mandel School. I expect that his graduation message will be meaningful and memorable."
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Diploma Ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 12 noon at the Temple-Tifereth, 1855 Ansel Road. Parking will be available in the Temple lot off of East 101st Street.
This year, students from the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations will receive their Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) degree with the Mandel School students who will receive a Master of Science in Social Administration (MSSA) degree.
Congressman Kucinich has a public service career that spans more than 30 years.
In 1977, Kucinich first came to national prominence when he was elected mayor of Cleveland at age 31, the youngest person ever to lead a major American city. Fifteen years later, Kucinich won election to the Ohio State Senate. After serving as mayor and state senator, Congressman Kucinich was elected in 1997 to the United States House of Representatives’ 105th Congress where he is currently serving his sixth term. He made a bid for President in 2004 and continues his campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Congressman Kucinich has advocated the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Peace, to make non-violence an organizing principle within our society.
His personal story is equally compelling. Born in Cleveland in 1946, he was the oldest of seven children. By the time he was 17, he and his family had lived in 21 different places. Despite this early adversity, he went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University and, in 1974, a Masters in Speech Communications from the University.
For information about the University’s guidelines about appearances by political figures on campus, please visit: http://www.case.edu/pubaff/govrel/guidelines.html