Hackworth , CEO of Aspirian Inc, and chairman of the board of Cirrus Logic, was the commencement speaker at Sunday morning ceremonies granting graduate degrees for the Leavey School of Business, the Graduate School of Engineering, the School of Counseling Psychology and Education, and Pastoral Studies. The SCU School of Law held its commencement on May 15. The SCU undergraduate commencement was held on Saturday. The second-largest group of graduate degrees was in engineering, with more than 277 graduate degrees. Most SCU graduate students are part-time, going to school while pursing careers in Silicon Valley.
Good ethics is good business, or good politics, or good education policy.
It s not a question of either optimizing the bottom line or being ethical at the expense of the bottom line. Hackworth, a San Mateo native, and his wife Joan received honorary degrees, doctors of public service, prior to his delivering the address at the SCU graduate schools commencement at Buck Shaw Stadium. The outdoor speakers shell was flanked by flags of 81 nations, representing the countries and nationalities of SCU students and faculty. Five large banners, representing different areas of study and modeled after the guild signs of medieval Europe, were draped from the stagefront. Hackworth is a member of the Santa Clara University Engineering Advisory Board and the advisory board of the university s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.