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Undergraduate degrees for all Education and Professional Studies majors will be presented at this ceremony. Students will walk across the stage and receive their diplomas from the deans. Professional photos will be taken of each student’s big moment and will be available from Grad Images.
Tickets are required for this ceremony. Guests with mobility concerns (including use of a wheelchair, crutches, cane, walker, and difficulty with stair climbing) are eligible to sit in the limited mobility seating section. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis for guests with mobility concerns and one additional member of their party. Students must register their guests, in advance, through the CEPS commencement registration form. For additional information, please contact CEPS Academic and Student Affairs at 401-277-5160.
2019 Gonfalon Bearer
Eneida Bennett
Major: Human Studies, concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies
Eneida is an excellent representative of the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies. She was perfectly content working as a paralegal for a Providence law firm for 15 years after receiving her associate’s degree in 2001. That all changed in 2013, when Bennett had a conversation with her future mother-in-law who convinced her to continue her studies and get a bachelor’s degree. Unsure of her direction, her advisor urged her to try the Gender and Women’s Studies courses that ultimately gave her a new sense of purpose. When Bennett accepts her bachelor’s degree in Human Studies, she will do so with a new mission. Eneida wants to find a way to make a positive impact on issues that women face every day; to explore social services and community organizations where she can volunteer to help women and hopes to serve on boards that will further the cause.
Venue and Parking
Please note – parking maps for 2020 will be updated soon!
The ceremony will begin in Edwards Auditorium at 9 a.m. (rain or shine), and visitors should park in the Briar Lane lot (Parking lot 1), or Fine Arts lots (Parking lots 6/7).
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