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Former ASU President Lattie Coor to Give Keynote Address
South Mountain Community College will hold its 28th annual Commencement ceremony
on Friday, May 9, at 7 p.m.
The ceremony will be outdoors in the Performing Arts Amphitheatre of the college, 7050 S. 24th St. (just north of Baseline Rd.) ”The Power of Education” is the theme, and former ASU President Lattie Coor will give the keynote address (see profile below). Dr. Eufemia Amabisca, SMCC Education Faculty, will introduce Dr. Coor.
DR. LATTIE COOR TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT MAY 9 COMMENCEMENT
Dr. Lattie F. Coor is president-emeritus, professor and Ernest W. McFarland Chair in Leadership and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, and is chairman and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona.
For the previous 26 years, Lattie Coor served as a university president. He was president of Arizona State University from 1990 to 2002, and president of the University of Vermont from 1976 to 1989.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Coor served as an assistant to the Governor of Michigan and held faculty appointments in Political Science at Washington University . His administrative responsibilities there included those of Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, Director of International Studies, and University Vice Chancellor.
He has held positions with a variety of higher education associations, board and commissions, having served as a founding member and chairman of Division I of the NCAA President’s Commission. He held the position of chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges in 1992-93, and served on the board of directors of the American Council on Education from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2002. He also served on the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities from 1996 to 2002. He served as a trustee of the American College of Greece, Athens, from 1988 to 1998, and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Deer Creek Foundation, St. Louis, since 1983.