Believe in Yourself and Help Others Believe in Themselves, U.S. …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With fewer than eight percent of the U.S. population holding advanced
degrees, those who attain those heights possess both the ability and
responsibility to lift others, said Martha J. Kanter, the U.S. Under
Secretary of Education.

“add your names to the honor
roll of those who walked these corridors and made positive change happen
for decades before you entered these doors.”

“You can do more, you can be more, you can lift others and you can
change and improve our world,” said Kanter, the commencement speaker for
more than 650 advanced-degree recipients from Santa Clara University’s
schools of engineering, business, education and counseling psychology,
and arts and sciences.

SCU’s 161st graduate commencement took place Friday evening
at the University’s Leavey Center.

Reciting a list of prominent SCU alumni including Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta; Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and California Gov.
Jerry Brown, she urged the graduates to “add your names to the honor
roll of those who walked these corridors and made positive change happen
for decades before you entered these doors.”

Kanter is the woman President Obama has tapped to help educate America’s
workforce for the next decade. She is the former chancellor of the
Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which serves more than
45,000 students with a budget of about $400 million. She holds a
doctorate in organization and leadership from the University of San
Francisco; a master’s degree in education with a concentration in
clinical psychology and public practice from Harvard University, and a
bachelor's degree in sociology from Brandeis University.

Other information about the graduate programs at SCU:

Graduates represent 17 states and more than 17 countries, provinces, and
territories.

Engineering
Top Ethnicities: Asian (63%); White (19%);
Other/Unknown (12%); Hispanic (3%)
Gender: 68% Male; 32% Female

Business
Top Ethnicities: Asian (49%); White (25%);
Other/Unknown (20%)
Gender: 65% Male; 35% Female

Education and Counseling Psychology
Top Ethnicities: White
(48%); Hispanic (17%); Other/Unknown (18%); Asian (12%)
Gender: 84%
Female; 16% Male

Arts and Sciences (specifically Pastoral Ministries)
Top
Ethnicities: White (70%); Hispanic (10%); Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (10%)
Gender:
70% Female; 30% Male

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university
located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley,
offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in
arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master’s
and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one
of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master’s universities,
California’s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates
faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more
information, see www.scu.edu.

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