FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Darlene Robertson
Dean of Student Services
937.769.1820
drobertson@mcgregor.edu
Antioch University McGregor Announces
2008 Commencement Speaker
Yellow Springs, Ohio—On Sunday, June 29th, Antioch University McGregor will be holding its commencement ceremony from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M in the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in downtown Dayton. McGregor is honored to announce that the commencement speaker will be the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, Eric D. Fingerhut. Mr. Fingerhut was appointed Chancellor on March 14, 2007. He served as Ohio State Senator in 1991-92 and from 1999-2006 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-94.
Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Fingerhut served as an attorney in the Older Person’s Law Office of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, as an attorney with the Cleveland firm of Hahn, Loeser & Parks, and as the Associate Director of Cleveland Works. Mr. Fingerhut served as Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Solutions (formerly the Federation for Community Planning,) a non-profit organization that takes the lead in planning and advocacy on health and human services issues in Greater Cleveland. From 2005-07, Mr. Fingerhut joined the Business Administration faculty of Baldwin-Wallace College as the Director of Economic Development Education and Entrepreneurship. He also served as a Senior Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University.
A 1977 graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, Mr. Fingerhut earned a Bachelor of Science degree with highest honors from Northwestern University in 1981 and a law degree from the Stanford University School of Law in 1984. In his first year at the Ohio Board of Regents, Chancellor Fingerhut worked with Governor Ted Strickland to create the University System of Ohio (USO), closely linking all public colleges and universities in Ohio. He is also leading a process that will result in a higher education master plan for Ohio. The plan addresses the unique role of independent colleges and recognizes the increasing role of adult learners, McGregor’s key audience.
Antioch University McGregor contributes to the betterment of the individual and the community by fostering academic excellence and providing socially responsive, flexible and innovative education programs for adult learners. McGregor features a wide array of bachelor’s degree completion majors, master’s programs in conflict resolution, management, education and individualized liberal and professional studies programs.
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