First Lady Michelle Obama waves to the first full four year graduates of the Univ of California at Merced on Saturday.
The University of California’s newest campus, at Merced, reached a milestone yesterday as its first freshman class moved all the way to graduation, and the nation’s first lady, Michelle Obama, was there to congratulate them. Members of the class had mounted an intense lobbying campaign to secure her as their commencement speaker, and theirs was the only invitation she accepted.
“You inspired me, you touched me,” she said of that campaign in her remarks to the graduating class. Making public service the theme of her speech, Ms. Obama urged the graduates to “dream big, think broadly about your life, and please make giving back to your community a part of that vision.”
The Merced campus, which opened in 2005, enrolls 2,700 students now and plans to eventually enlarge to 25,000 students. The usually placid campus was swarming with police officers and Secret Service agents on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported. The extra security and other expenses associated with the first lady’s visit will cost about $700,000, of which the campus has raised about $160,000 through donations, according to the Times.*** Ace! is a member of the EducationUSA global educational advising network affiliated with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. We provide free EducationUSA counseling services to students in the northern provinces of Thailand, and our faculty of U.S.-trained Test Prep Experts can help you with cost-effective result-driven training programs for SAT-1, SAT-2, and TOEFL ***
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