News from: CSUSB Palm Desert Campus

Cal State San Bernardino will honor its Class of 2025 with a series of commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, at the Toyota Arena in Ontario. In addition to the in-person ceremonies, each will be livestreamed.

Approximately 3,100 students from both the Palm Desert and San Bernardino campuses have registered to participate in the five ceremonies.

Festivities begin Friday, May 16, with two ceremonies hosted by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. At 1:30 p.m., graduates from the departments of child development, economics, ethnic studies, political science, and psychology will be recognized. Later that evening at 6 p.m., the celebration will continue with graduates from the schools of criminology and criminal justice and social work, and the departments of anthropology, geography and environmental studies, history, social sciences, and sociology.

Saturday, May 17, will feature a full schedule of commencement ceremonies beginning at 9 a.m. with the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration. At 1:30 p.m., the College of Natural Sciences will take the stage, followed by a joint ceremony at 6 p.m. for the College of Arts and Letters and the James R. Watson and Judy Rodriguez Watson College of Education.

Of note, the Watson College of Education will graduate 20 candidates from its doctorate in educational leadership program this spring, the most ever in the history of the university.

During the day’s events, Mary Jane McCoy, a CSUSB alumna and longtime Inland Empire educator, will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. In addition, CSUSB alumnus Paul Granillo, president and CEO of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, will be recognized with a CSU Trustee-Nominated Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

The Toyota Arena is located at 4000 E. Ontario Center Parkway in Ontario.

For more information and for livestream links for each ceremony, visit the CSUSB Commencement webpage.

Located in the heart of the Coachella Valley, the Palm Desert Campus is dedicated to providing a transformative educational experience for students and plays a vital role in expanding access to higher education in the region. With the campus seeing an increase in student enrollment, the new Student Services Building is part of a long-term vision to grow the campus and better serve the needs of its diverse student population.

For more information about the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, contact Mike Singer in the Office of Marketing and Communications at [email protected] or (760) 341-2883, ext. 78107, or visit the PDC website at www.csusb.edu/pdc.