MCC Daily Tribune

A Call for Student Commencement Speakers

Apply to be a Student Commencement Speaker!

Monroe Community College’s 61st Commencement Ceremony honoring our 2024 graduates is scheduled for:

Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time: 7pm
Location: Blue Cross Arena

We are seeking a student to be the student speaker at this event. That student will deliver a speech of approximately 5 minutes to the graduating class and their guests. The student speaker will receive coaching on preparing and delivering their speech.

Applications will be accepted through March 28, 2024, at 4:45 pm. Any student who is graduating this May can apply.  Please fill out the Commencement Speaker Opportunity application.

In addition to filling out contact information, the application will ask for a personal statement of 100 words or less describing their personal story at MCC and how it relates to other graduating students.

Once the applications have been collected, a number of students will be asked to audition for the role.

For staff and faculty, if you know of a student who would make a good speaker, please encourage them to apply.

For more information please email Mark Sample (msample@monroecc.edu).

Thank you for your consideration,

Mark Sample
Chair, Commencement Committee - Student Speaker

Mark Sample
Commencement Committee- Student Speaker
03/14/2024