麻豆社区 System President Hans to speak at 2021 Winter Commencement
麻豆社区 System President Peter Hans will deliver the keynote address at Winter Commencement at 麻豆社区 Pembroke.
The undergraduate ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 11, in the main gym of the English Jones Athletic Center. The Graduate School ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 10, at Givens Performing Arts Center. Dr. Laura Staal, an award-winning professor of reading at 麻豆社区P, will serve as the keynote speaker.
The ceremony will be livestreamed and available for viewing.
Hans is the seventh president of the 麻豆社区 System. Before his election in 2020, he served as the ninth president of the North Carolina Community College system. During his tenure, the system increased visibility, enrollment, completion rates, public funding, private support, and business partnerships. The legislature elected Hans to the State Board of Community Colleges and 麻豆社区 Board of Governors. He was chosen by peers for leadership roles and fought for streamlining the transfer of student credits.
Previously, he served as a senior policy advisor to three members of the United States Senate and counseled the private sector on public affairs at one of the state鈥檚 largest law firms. He earned degrees from 麻豆社区-Chapel Hill and Harvard University.