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Southwest Minnesota State University will hold its 47th annual commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9.  Over 695 graduate and undergraduate students are candidates for master’s, bachelor’s and associate’s degrees, with approximately 415 of those candidates participating in the ceremony starting at 10:00 a.m., in the R/A Facility on the SMSU campus in Marshall, Minn. The class of 2015 includes students who will graduate with honors. They are indicated as follows: *Cum Laude 3.30-3.49 grade-point-average); **Magna Cum Laude 3.50-3.79); and ***Summa Cum Laude 3.80-4.0.). A 3.0 average is a grade of ‘B’ and a 4.0 is a grade of ‘A.’
Donovan Woods**, Belleville, will receive a BA in Political Science/BS in Management.