COMMENCEMENT 1985 : Cal State Long Beach
The 36th annual commencement exercises consisted of nine separate ceremonies on campus over a three-day period beginning Wednesday.
Degrees: 5,046 diplomas were awarded, including 738 graduate degrees.
Speaker: Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction, spoke Friday at the Graduate School of Education ceremony at the Student Union Plaza. He stressed the importance of the state’s ongoing reforms in public education, including the need to encourage more young people to choose teaching as a profession in order to handle the state’s impending teacher shortage. “Getting students to teach is one agenda; preparing them properly and then compensating them is another,” he said. “Thus, we must work hard to improve teacher’s salaries . . . (and) we must break the stereotype that teachers are poorly paid, because it precludes high achievers from considering teaching.”
Other Graduations:
Mount St. Mary’s College: Pat Russell, president, Los Angeles City Council, will speak today to 255 graduating students at the Chalon campus.
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