Baker to have winter commencement

Baker University in Baldwin will honor more than 700 undergraduate, graduate and nursing students with three ceremonies during winter commencement Saturday and Dec. 18 at the Collins Center.

Graduate students from Baker’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies will be recognized Saturday. Graduates in the Master of Business Administration degree program will be honored at 1 p.m. Students in the remaining graduate degree programs will be honored at 4 p.m.

The undergraduate ceremony for candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, and the School of Professional and Graduate Studies will be at 1 p.m. Dec. 18.

Speakers for the ceremonies will be Michael Davis, interim law dean at Kansas University; Cynthia Smith, president and CEO of Sunflower House, a child abuse prevention center in Shawnee; and Kay Schallenkamp, president of Emporia State University.

Davis will speak at the 1 p.m. ceremony Saturday. Smith will speak at the 4 p.m. ceremony Saturday. Schallenkamp will speak at the 1 p.m. Dec. 18 ceremony.