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Office of the Registrar
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6298
Fax: 910.521.6328
Email: registrar@uncp.edu

Location: Lumbee Hall, Room 133

School of Graduate Studies
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6271 or 1.866.521.GRAD (4723)
Fax: 910.521.6751
Relay: 1.866.521.GRAD (4723)
Email: grad@uncp.edu

Location: Lindsay Hall, Room 124
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The University of North Carolina at Pembroke will hold separate Commencement ceremonies for students receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees. Approximately 485 undergraduate and 73 graduate students are expected to graduate.

Please refer to the links along the left side of the page for more information.

For general information about Commencement, please call 910.521.6275. For information about tickets, please contact the Office of the Registrar at registrar@uncp.edu. Relay: 910.521.6275 or 910.521.6298 (Registrar)

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT CEREMONY

The 2011 Winter Commencement will be held Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 10 a.m. in the main gym of the English E. Jones Health and Physical Education Center.

Approximately 485 students are expected to graduate. Keynote speaker is New Scruggs '94, sports broacaster and member of the UNCP Board of Trustees.

Entrances to the main gym are located on the west and east sides of the Jones Center.

Parking is available on the west side of the Jones Center (via University Road), east of the James. B. Chavis University Center and east of the Dial Humanities Building (both accessible via Prospect/Odum Road). A shuttle service will be available for those not parking in the handicapped parking area.

Please arrive early. Entrances to the main gym open at 8:30 a.m.

Overflow is in the lobby of the James B. Chavis University Center. Live video and audio will be available.

The UNCP Bookstore will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bookstore merchandise will also be available in the west lobby of the Jones Center in the Shaw-Howington Concessions stand from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

GRAD IMAGES will take a photo of each graduate during the ceremony. Information will be mailed after Commencement.

For more information about the undergraduate Commencement, contact the Office of the Registrar at 910.521.6298 or registrar@uncp.edu.


Schedule of Events

Undergraduates students are to meet in the auxiliary gym of the Jones Center by 8:30 a.m.

Faculty are to robe and line-up in the lobby of Lumbee Hall by 9 a.m.

Administrators are to line-up in the hallway of the Jones Center outside room 1167 by 9 a.m.

The executive staff and Deans are to line-up in Jones Center room 1167 by 9 a.m.

The platform party and Board of Trustees are to line-up in Jones Center room 1167 by 9 a.m.

  8:30 a.m. Entrance to main gym opens for family and guests
  9:55 a.m. Entrance closes; Prelude by University Band
10:00 a.m. Processional of graduates, faculty, and platform party
   
  Commencement Speaker: Newy Scruggs '94, sports broacaster and member of the UNCP Board of Trustees.
   
  A reception will immediately follow the ceremony in the University Center Annex, adjacent to the Givens Performing Arts Center.


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GRADUATE STUDENT CEREMONY

The graduate student ceremony will be held Friday, December 9 at 7 p.m. in the Givens Performing Arts Center.

Approximately 73 students are expected to graduate. Keynote speaker is New Scruggs '94, sports broacaster and member of the UNCP Board of Trustees.

Parking is available on the north and south sides of the Givens Performing Arts Center and the east of the James B. Chavis University Center, accessible via Odum Street/Prospect Road. Handicapped accessible parking is available in the lot directly east of the Chavis University Center and University Center Annex and the small lot north of Givens Performing Arts Center.

Please arrive early. Entrance to the auditorium open at 6:00 p.m. All guests should be seated no later than 6:45 p.m.

The UNCP Bookstore will be selling roses, balloons and greeting cards in the lobby of the GPAC, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

GRAD IMAGES will take a photo of each graduate during the ceremony. Information will be mailed after Commencement.

For more information about the graduate Commencement, contact the School of Graduate Studies at 910.521.6271 or grad@uncp.edu.


Schedule of Events

Graduate students are to meet in the Auxiliary Gym of the Jones Center by 5:45 p.m.

Faculty are to robe and line-up in the first floor of Lumbee Hall while administrators are to robe and line-up in the first floor hallway of the University Center Annex, both by 6 p.m.

Trustees, executive staff, and the platform party, including deans, are to line-up in rooms 203 and 217 of the University Center Annex by 6 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Entrance opens for family and guests
6:55 p.m. Entrance closes; Prelude by University Band
7:00 p.m. Procession of graduates, faculty, and platform party
   
  Commencement Speaker: Newy Scruggs '94, sports broacaster and member of the UNCP Board of Trustees.
   
  A reception will immediately follow the ceremony in the University Center Annex, adjacent to the Givens Performing Arts Center.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Newy Scruggs '94

Newy ScruggsNewy Scruggs '94 could be called a one-man sports media conglomerate.

Before he became an Emmy Award-winning sports anchor for the NBC affiliate in Dallas, Texas, and president of Newdawg Productions and Top Dawg Development companies, he was a student who needed a scholarship to attend Pembroke State University.

Scruggs earned a scholarship and graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communication.

He already had a reputation on campus as a go-to media guy for athletics, and he had begun building his broadcasting resume as a part-time, weekend sports anchor at WBTW-13, the Florence, S.C., CBS affiliate.

From one of the nation’s smallest television markets, Scruggs climbed the ladder of success at KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas, WEWSTV in Cleveland, Ohio and KCOP in Los Angeles, Calif., before landing at KXAS-TV in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

The Dallas Cowboys, the Cleveland Browns and the Los Angeles Lakers are among the professional sports teams he has covered. He can do a good imitation of Shaquille O’Neal, too.

The sky is the limit for his career going forward. It’s a glamorous life under the lights, surrounded by celebrities, but his family and roots keep him grounded. His wife of nine years, Lainie, and he have three girls, Savannah Reese, 7, Sienna Rose, 5, and Sophia Raquel, 5 months.

Scruggs returns often to his home and his roots. He was appointed to the UNCP Board of Trustees in 2009 and was sworn in with his parents, Albert and Theresa Scruggs of Fayetteville, N.C., in attendance.

Before joining the board, Scruggs had begun to pay forward on the scholarship he received as a student. Legend has it, in an interview with the scholarship committee, he vowed that if they invested in him he would repay the university.

In 2003, he established the Newy Scruggs Sports Broadcasting Endowed Scholarship. Nick Phillips, editor of the Pine Needle student newspaper and a dual journalism/broadcasting major, is the 2011-12 recipient of the scholarship.

In 2007, Scruggs returned to the university with several fraternity brothers to establish an endowed scholarship to honor Dr. Sylvester Wooten, a longtime university administrator, who advised Scruggs’ fraternity, Omega Psi Phi. Dr. Wooten, who is retired, was present with his family for the signing of the scholarship.

In 2010, Scruggs returned to meet the recipient of his scholarship at the annual Scholarship Recognition Dinner. He also delivered remarks on behalf of all UNCP’s donors.

In his comments, Scruggs remains bullish on his university and its broadcasting program. “We have a tremendous broadcasting program at UNCP. You can come here and make it. I came here because the broadcasting program gives hands-on experience.”

Scruggs said he owes a great deal to his university. “Great schools are great because people keep putting money back into them, he said. He is a man who has followed his dream and never forgot the people who helped him become successful.

“I am living my dream, and I’ve done things I never thought I would do,” he said. That dream includes doing what he loves best – talking sports, with a major market audience looking on. He has won five Lonestar Emmys to date and owns radio, television and Internet production companies and a real estate investment company.

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BROADCAST

The undergraduate ceremony will be broadcast live by WNCP-TV Channel 6 on Robeson County Time Warner Cable. It will also be aired on Wednesday, December 14 at 8 p.m. and on Friday, December 16 at 8 p.m.

The graduate ceremony is being recorded by WNCP-TV Channel 6 for Robeson County Time Warner Cable. It will also be aired on Wednesday, December 14 at 6 p.m. and on Friday, December 16 at 6 p.m.

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WEBCAST

Archived webcasts of Commencement will be available after Commencement.

Please be patient while the video loads.

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Updated: Monday, December 12, 2011

 

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