Hood Magazine Summer 2008

10 HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2008 commencement A milestone was reached this year when the largest graduation in the College’s 115-year history was held in two commencement ceremonies May 17. by Ilene Liszka, Associate Editor 2008 The recent increases in enrollment at Hood that have now translated into larger graduating classes was the impetus for holding separate ceremonies for bachelor’s degree and master’s degree recipients for the ﬁrst time in the College’s history. Degree recipients from the graduate school, which was formed in 1971, have been included in Hood commencements since the ﬁrst Hood master’s degree was awarded in 1973. Since fall 2003, when the College admitted its ﬁrst fully coeducational class, the number of matriculating new, transfer and adult undergraduate students has risen more than 67 percent. Those students are now graduating in record numbers—62 percent more undergraduates received degrees at this year’s ceremony than did ﬁve years ago. This year alone, the graduating class was 40 percent larger than last year’s and 18 percent larger than that of the Class of 1978, which, at 293, previously held the record for the largest ever graduating class. Likewise, more students than ever are enrolling in Hood’s graduate programs—during the same four-year period the graduate school enrollment has increased 15 percent and the graduating class has grown more than 22 percent. The graduate enrollment in the 14 degree programs and the ﬁve certiﬁcate programs comprises more than 40 percent of Hood’s total student population.

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