2016 SJSU iSchool Virtual Convocation
Channel: SJSU School of Information
Date: 2016-05-22

Everyone is invited to attend the one-hour synchronous session on May 21, 2016, from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific. Dr. Sandra Hirsh will open the ceremony with a welcome address. Hirsh will be joined by guest speakers Dr. Mary Schutten, dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts, and our school’s invited convocation speaker, Toby Greenwaltt. 

In addition, the attendees will hear from Kayla Figard, who is the 2016 Ken Haycock award winner. 

Convocation Speaker
Toby Greenwalt is Director of Digital Strategy and Technology Integration at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, where he works to match new models for virtual service with robust, flexible IT infrastructure. In addition to providing strategic guidance for CLP, Toby serves on the advisory committee for ALA's Center for the Future of Libraries. He blogs all too seldom at www.theanalogdivide.com (link is external)and tweets too frequently as @theanalogdivide.

Virtual Convocation Website
A special online graduation platform was built with input from students and faculty and features graduate student profiles, degree presentations, graduating student award winners, and more. Visitors can search by graduate name and post congratulatory messages:

http://ischoolconvocation.sjsu.edu/