ECC’s Fall 2022 commencement ceremonies take place on December 17

Elgin Community College is honored to recognize the fall Class of 2022 with in-person commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 17, in the Building J Events Center at the college’s Spartan Drive Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive in Elgin, Ill. Commencement is presented as two ceremonies: University Transfer degrees at 10 am and Career and Technical programs at 2 pm. Students are assigned to the graduation ceremony based on the credential(s) earned. Both ceremonies will stream live at youtube.com/ElginSpartans.

The 10 am University Transfer ceremony will recognize candidates for the associate in arts, associate in science, associate in fine arts-visual art emphasis, associate in fine arts-music performance emphasis, associate in engineering science, and associate in liberal studies) with student speaker Julio C. Hernandez of Carpentersville.

The 2 pm Career and Technical programs ceremony will recognize candidates for the associate of applied science degrees, vocational specialist certificates, and basic vocational specialist certificates with student speaker Tiffany A. Jensen of Elgin.

ECC President David Sam, PhD, JD, LLM, will deliver the commencement address for both ceremonies. Chair of the Board of Trustees, Jennifer Rakow, and Parul Raval, EdD, professor of education and 2022 Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member award winner, will also provide remarks.

Prior to the commencement ceremonies, on Friday, Dec. 9, at 6 pm, ECC will recognize 27 Fire Academy students who have completed the basic operations firefighter program. This is the largest BOF class in the program’s six-year history.

For more information about ECC’s commencement exercises, please visit elgin.edu/celebrate.