Manhattan College Awards Undergraduate Degrees At 165th Commencement

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College awarded close to 700 degrees in some 40 major fields of study from its five schools in arts, business, education, engineering and science at its 165th Undergraduate Commencement on Sunday, May 20. Students who completed their studies in September 2006, February 2007 and May 2007 participated in the ceremony, which was held at the College’s Draddy Gymnasium.

During the ceremony, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree was presented to Jan Crawford Greenburg, an ABC News legal correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Greenburg, who recently interviewed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice John Paul Stevens, is the author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.

In her keynote address, Greenburg said, “America has settled the West, explored the moon, expanded the boundaries of medicine and science, and opened up worlds that those who went before us could never have imagined. And those who have changed the world, who have dared to discover, who have left this world a better place, all had one thing in common: They listened to the dreams of their heart instead of the criticisms of their peers. They pushed forward, got knocked down and stood again.”

Prior to joining ABC, Greenburg was the national legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune., the Supreme Court correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, and a legal analyst for CBS’s Evening News and Face the Nation.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.