Summer Quarter graduation will mark 40,000th graduate!
Graduates of CTI in the late 60s attended ceremonies at Battelle Memorial Institute’s auditorium. The Delaware Hall gymnasium wasn’t built until 1976, and then the ceremonies moved there until the late 80s when attendance grew too large. Since then, most graduation ceremonies have been held at Veteran’s Memorial.
A happy Spring Quarter ’09 graduate celebrates in June.
The commencement ceremony on September 11 will be special for all 400 students earning degrees this Summer Quarter, but it will be a little extra special for the lucky graduate who crosses the stage at Veterans Memorial as the 40,000th graduate of Columbus State! We won’t know who that’s going to be until graduation day, but when the countdown reaches that number, a big announcement will be made and that person will receive a little extra recognition, gifts and a slightly different photograph than the standard “receiving the diploma” shot!
Since Columbus State began as Columbus Area Technician’s School in 1963, there have been 39,911 graduates, including the class of 1965, which totaled 67 grads. That was the same year that the college was renamed Columbus Technical Institute, or “CTI.” Columbus State became a comprehensive community college in 1987.
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Volleyball tonight against Capital
Concert ticket giveaway!
Splat has six sets of tickets to The Flaming Lips concert on Friday, September 18 – during break – at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion. The first six people who email to studentnews@cscc.edu with the subject line: Flaming Lips, will win two tickets to the concert, so hurry and send your email now! And if you’re lucky, maybe lead singer Wayne Coyne will roll through the audience in his famous plastic bubble!
Franklin U. offers free networking seminar September 10
Everyone’s invited to a free symposium about social networking on Thursday, September 10 at 5 p.m. on the Franklin University campus in the Ross Auditorium in Alumni Hall. The symposium will have speakers talking about enhancing your online profile with the latest applications to expand your network and help your career! You can see the flyer online here.