{"id":43555,"date":"2016-12-17T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:58:16","slug":"president-hopkins-tells-graduating-wright-state-students-that-caring-for-the-greater-good-is-true-measure-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/12\/17\/president-hopkins-tells-graduating-wright-state-students-that-caring-for-the-greater-good-is-true-measure-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"President Hopkins tells graduating Wright State students that caring for the greater good is true measure of success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President<\/a>True success in life is measured by the way one treats others and how much more a person cares about the greater good than self-interest, Wright State President David R. Hopkins told graduating students at the university\u2019s fall commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n

More than 1,800 students graduated Dec. 17 during the ceremony at the Wright State Nutter Center.<\/p>\n

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Hopkins told the students that their professional accomplishments will be just one component of their success as a human being.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur world needs people like you who will care more about the greater good than just your personal self-interest,\u201d said Hopkins. \u201cAnd I know from my personal interactions with this campus, with this group of graduates, that you are already committed to serving others.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the eighth consecutive year, Wright State was named with distinction to the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll<\/a>, a national measuring stick of volunteering, community service, service learning and civic engagement. About 14,000 Wright State students gave nearly 1.5 million hours of community service and civic engagement last year.<\/p>\n

Hopkins said the nation will look to the graduating students \u2014 as part of the next generation of physicians, nurses, educators, engineers, scientists, journalists and elected officials \u2014 to make a difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when many of us are gone, we will leave this world knowing that we\u2019ve left it in very capable hands \u2014 your hands,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cI believe you may be the greatest generation our world has ever seen. And if you make your life a life that truly matters, you will always be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins singled out for congratulations Lt. Col. Karen Dufour, the first graduate of the College of Nursing and Health’s adult gerontology clinical nurse specialist flight and disaster concentration, in 2012.<\/p>\n

After completing an assignment with the White House medical unit and working with the vice president of the United States, Dufour returned to Wright State to complete her Doctor of Nursing Practice. She received the outstanding graduate award from the Doctor of Nursing Practice program in April, but was unable to attend spring commencement because she was assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

More than 1,150 students will graduate in the fall class of 2016 and another 672 from the summer class. The fall class includes graduates with 748 bachelor\u2019s degrees and 384 master\u2019s as well those awarded associate degrees and post-master\u2019s certificates.<\/p>\n

The fall class features graduates from 47 Ohio counties, including 727 from the 16 counties anchored by Wright State\u2019s Dayton and Lake campuses. Graduates hail from 22 total states.<\/p>\n

The class also includes 234 international students from 16 nations, with India boasting the largest number of foreign graduates with 133.<\/p>\n

The graduating students from the fall class range in age from 20 to 62.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/a>Graduates by college:<\/p>\n