COUNTYWIDE : Community Colleges to Award Degrees to About 1,900 Students
About 1,900 students will graduate from Ventura County’s community colleges this week in ceremonies on the three campuses.
At Ventura College, about 800 students will be awarded associate degrees today during the 1:30 p.m. ceremony in the college gym.
The college will also bestow posthumous degrees on two students who died during the school year: Roland Martinez, killed in a drive-by shooting, and Jennifer Laubacher, who died in a traffic accident.
The guest speaker will be Oxnard Mayor Nao Takasugi, a graduate of the college.
Music will be provided by the Ventura College orchestra, with music instructor Frank Salazar conducting.
About 267 students will graduate during Oxnard College’s commencement ceremony at 6 p.m. today on the campus’s Simpson Drive lawn.
Rather than invite an outside speaker for the event, students at the college traditionally address the audience.
On Friday, a record 823 students will receive degrees in Moorpark College’s commencement on the quad in front of the Campus Center.
The speaker for the 5 p.m. ceremony will be lawyer Michael Stoker, a Santa Barbara County supervisor and a former Moorpark College student.
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