Graduation 2008

Graduation Welcome Remarks
Thomas B. Coburn
President, Naropa University

The greatest honor that comes to me each year as president of Naropa University is to extend this welcome to our graduation ceremony. It is an honor because I know what a tremendous, collaborative effort it has required to get each of you, today's graduates, to this point in your lives. You have done wonderful, transformative work with us, and just as you have grown over the years, so you have helped us grow, as individual faculty and staff members, and as an institution. So my first words of welcome are intertwined with words of thanks for all that you-today's graduates-have done and been during your years with us. Let me be the first-along with the others assembled here today who are not students-to salute you and offer our collective congratulations. Read More...