VIDEO & PHOTOS: President’s Medalists and Honorary Doctorates recognized at CAH Commencement

May 23, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

2022 Graduate President's Medalist stands during the College of Arts and Humanities commencement ceremony.

The 2022 commencement was especially unique as both President’s Medalists and honorary doctorate degrees were awarded to a single college within the university.

College of Arts and Humanities Commencement information

May 13, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Download your College of Arts and Humanities Commencement Program.

Inspired for life: Recent Arts and Humanities grads see early success

May 28, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Interior Design graduate throws her arms wide during commencement at Bulldog Stadium.

We celebrate and congratulate those recent alums who have found their path forward.

Arts and Humanities Students celebrate at in-person commencement

May 19, 2021.Reading time 17 minutes.

The breeze rejuvenated as it passed through the masked students in the warm May evening while graduates congregated outside Bulldog Stadium ahead of commencement. For many, this was among the first gatherings in the 14 months since the quarantine lockdown

2020 Grad Tribute

May 15, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

We want to be the first to congratulate you on your achievements. The College’s faculty and staff join us in applauding you.

English faculty serves as grand marshal for 108th Commencement

May 23, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

As grand marshal, bearing the mace — the ornamented wood staff carried by the Commencement ceremony’s senior faculty member — carried added significance for Henson. Her husband served as the ceremony’s grand marshal and mace-bearer at least three times before his retirement. Zumwalt was back in attendance this year to watch Henson march in.

PHOTOS: Celebrating our 2019 College of Arts and Humanities graduates

May 22, 2019.Reading time 23 minutes.

All that I am and hope to be, I owe to those who believe in me.

On Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18, hundreds of College of Arts and Humanities students celebrated their accomplishment with family, friends, faculty, administrators, and staff. Here are photos from those events.

National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Peede delivers inspiring 2019 CAH Convocation address

May 20, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Jon Parrish Peede, NEH Chairman speaks at the 2019 CAH Convocation.

Full speech…

Join us as we celebrate our 2019 College of Arts and Humanities graduates

May 17, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

The community is invited as the College of Arts and Humanities 2019 Convocation celebrates our graduates at 12:15 p.m., Friday, May 17 at the Save Mart Center. The event will feature guest speaker Jon Parrish Peede the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Meet the 2017 Dean’s Medalists for the College of Arts and Humanities

May 18, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

~ By Kathleen Schock, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com Seven of Fresno State’s schools and colleges, along with the Division of Student Affairs, select an outstanding student to honor as their Dean’s Medalist for the class of 2017, one each from the graduate and undergraduate level. The deans selected the undergraduate and graduate medalist based on academic excellence, community involvement […]

Message from the Dean

All of us in the College of Arts and Humanities hope that you and yours are doing well!

Our faculty have been hard at work, and our college’s students and alumni are pursuing their dreams in a wide variety of fields. We are excited to embark on a new venture with the creation of the M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya. Thanks to a generous gift from the Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation, our campus and community will experience courses and programming dedicated to Gandhian peacemaking and upliftment of everyone in society. We hope you will join us at future events.

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