Published: December 06, 2022
155th Commencement To Be Held Friday, Dec. 16
The University of Tampa will hold its 155th commencement Friday, Dec. 16, at 9:30 a.m., at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall.
Kimberly Morris, assistant professor of health sciences and human performance, is the speaker for the ceremony.
The ceremony will include 985 graduates, including 670 bachelor’s degree candidates, 311 master’s degree candidates and four doctoral candidates. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
Kimberly Morris, assistant professor of health sciences and human performance, is the speaker for the ceremony. Morris is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Louise Loy Hunter Award, which is given annually to a UT faculty member for excellence in teaching and cumulative contributions in service and scholarship. She said her speech will be about being “inexhaustibly curious, finding solutions and not just problems, and the next great generation.”
Shelby Jackett, who is graduating with bachelor’s degrees in political science and philosophy with dual minors in history and law, justice and advocacy, will introduce Morris and deliver the challenge to the graduating class.
In the days leading up to the ceremony, several departments will hold hooding ceremonies for their master’s degree candidates:
- Wednesday, Dec. 14
- College of Arts and Letters hooding ceremony, 6 p.m., Ferman Center for the Arts, Charlene A. Gordon Theater
- Thursday, Dec. 15
- Sykes College of Business hooding ceremony, 6 p.m., Falk Theatre
- Department of Nursing hooding and pinning ceremony, 4 p.m., Ferman Center for the Arts, Charlene A. Gordon Theater
- Department of Exercise and Nutrition Science hooding ceremony, 11 a.m., Plant Hall, Music Room
- Physician Assistant Medicine hooding ceremony, 6 p.m., Plant Hall, Fletcher Lounge
- College of Social Sciences, Mathematics and Education hooding ceremony, 6 p.m., Plant Hall, Grand Salon
UT Graduates by the Numbers
Total graduates: 985
Countries represented: 15
% of graduates from Florida: 59
Undergraduate students
Total bachelor’s degree candidates: 670
Summa cum laude (GPA 4.0): 2
Magna cum laude (GPA 3.75 or higher, but less than 4.0): 97
Cum laude (GPA 3.5 or higher, but less than 3.75): 97
Most popular undergraduate majors: finance, marketing, and criminology and criminal justice
Graduate students
Total candidates: 315
With highest honors (GPA 4.0): 28
With honors (GPA 3.9 or higher, but less than 4.0): 39
MBAs awarded: 48
