Xerox CEO to Address Tri-C Graduates

Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio’s largest and oldest community college, will conduct its 41st annual commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m., at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. This year 2,219 students have petitioned to graduate. The fall, spring and summer grads will receive two-year associate degrees in arts, applied business, applied science, science and technical studies.

Anne Mulcahy, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation, will deliver the Commencement address. Mulcahy began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. She was named CEO of Xerox on August 1, 2001, and chairman on January 1, 2002. Mulcahy most recently was president and chief operating officer of Xerox from May 2000 through July 2001. Prior to that, she was president of Xerox’s General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels.

Rebecca Ann Burke is this year’s student speaker. She is graduating Summa Cum Laude with an Associate of Arts degree. The member of Phi Theta Kappa–a Cuyahoga County Board of Health employee who is married and has a seven-year-old son–plans to begin attending Baldwin-Wallace College this fall to study business management and accounting.

Among the other graduates taking part in this year’s commencement ceremony…

More than two dozen Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program (dual high school and Tri-C) students will graduate with an associate degree. One of these students is a high school junior. Another PSEOP student will receive two associate degrees. Another has earned a full-ride to The Juilliard School.

A displaced steelworker from Pennsylvania has commuted home to his family on weekends since he started at Tri-C in August 2005. He has a 3.87 GPA, and will likely be valedictorian of his program.

A Western Campus student who will graduate with a 3.6 GPA will continue her education at a private four-year college after serving as president of a campus organization, a member of Phi Theta Kappa and a singer in a student chorale ensemble. She just happens to be blind.

One grad-to-be with a 4.0 GPA is receiving three associate degrees from Tri-C, and will soon move to Providence, Rhode Island, in order to begin classes at Johnson & Wales University.