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Edison Community College to graduate
a record number with transfer degrees;
Representative Seaver to speak
A total of 352 associate degrees and certificates will be awarded to students at the Edison Community College commencement on Friday, May 10, at 7 p.m.
The class to be honored at Edison’s 27th annual graduation will be the second largest in the college’s history. The ceremony takes place in the Convocation Center on Edison’s main campus in Piqua.
State Representative Derrick Seaver, who serves Ohio’s 85th district in the upper Miami Valley, provides the commencement address.
For the first time ever, more than 100 Edison graduates will attain associate of arts and associate of science degrees enabling them to enroll as juniors in bachelor’s degree studies at four-year colleges and universities across the country.
Next month, this record number of 112 graduates in the class of 2002 is expected to complete what are termed “university-transfer” programs. Such programs can serve as the full freshman and sophomore years of the bachelor’s degree.
During the 2001-2002 academic year, more than one thousand Edison students requested that their transcripts be forwarded to four-year institutions. This, too, indicates the rising popularity of the university-transfer concept.
Wider student use of the state-mandated transfer module of courses and the expansion of Edison bachelor’s degree completion programs and partnerships were cited as the major reasons for the big increase in the number of 2002 transfer graduates.
New four-year completion programs available online and on the Edison campus enable associate degree students to earn bachelor’s degrees at private institutions without leaving the upper Miami Valley. In addition, Edison courses in the module are automatically accepted throughout Ohio by all four-year state schools such as Miami, Bowling Green, Ohio State, and Wright State.
While the Class of 2002 includes a majority of students from Edison’s service area of Darke, Miami, and Shelby counties, a larger number than usual lives in counties outside this particular three-county region.
Shelby, western Auglaize, and Champaign counties comprise the legislative district served by Seaver, the commencement speaker, who became Ohio’s youngest representative at age 18 back on Election Day 2000. He currently attends Wright State.
Seaver is the head of the state’s Young Politicians of America group. He is the founder and sitting chairman of the Auglaize County Young Democrats. Four times, he has been chosen director for the Ohio Young Democrats eleven-county region.
The Minster resident was born in February of 1982 in the Butler County community of Oxford. He is a member of the Minster Civics Association.
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