[Pols-l] Graduation Ceremony Speaker

[Wuthrich, Mike]

Hi everyone,

It's getting close to graduation time again, and now it would be good to start thinking about someone to give a good word to the students (15-20 minutes). I was hoping for your feedback or suggestions about this. I can think of 3 possible trajectories-all of them are on the table and no one has been contacted, etc.


  1.  Clay Britton - graduated from KU as a POLS (and HIST) undergrad; then KU Law; then nice law firms; then Chief Counsel for Gov Kelly; currently Senior VP and General Counsel for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas
  2.  Do you have connections with anyone who would be a good person with a logical reason to be the speaker at graduation for POLS students?
  3.  We could give a list of faculty members to graduating seniors and let them nominate/vote for a faculty member to give the brief word to the students. (This is rather typical across departments-selecting a faculty member by students and/or faculty)

Let me know your thoughts about any of these. Especially if you have a good idea or connection to a possible speaker.
Best,
Mike
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F. Michael Wuthrich
Associate Professor, Political Science
Interim Chair, Political Science
Associate Director, Global & Int. Stds
University of Kansas
522 Blake Hall
(785) 864-9038
mwuthrich at ku.edu<mailto:mwuthrich at ku.edu>
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