MIT dean to speak at TAMS commencement

Robert M. Randolph, senior associate dean for student life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the featured speaker at the commencement ceremony for the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at UNT on May 10.

Approximately 155 students are expected to receive TAMS diplomas this year. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. in the Main Auditorium. In addition to Randolph, speakers at this year's commencement will include graduating students Erin Nixon and Adam Sears, who were chosen to speak by their fellow TAMS students through an election.

During the ceremony, Alfred F. Hurley, UNT System chancellor, and his wife, Joanna, will be named honorary TAMS alumni. The Hurleys were instrumental in creating TAMS on the UNT campus in 1987.

Randolph received his undergraduate degree from Abilene Christian University. He holds graduate degrees from Pepperdine University, Yale University Divinity School, Brandeis University and Andover Newton Theological School. He has taught at Southern Connecticut State College, Pepperdine University and Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass., where he also served as chaplain.

Recently at MIT, he has been teaching a freshman seminar, "The Abrahamic Faiths: Conversations Between Jews, Christians and Muslims." In 1994, he helped to establish a new Religious Activities Center at MIT.

Randolph has been at MIT since 1979 and helped to develop the Office of Student Assistance Services and the International Students' Office. He also currently serves on the Board of Ministry at Harvard University and is an affiliated minister at Memorial Church on the Harvard campus. He serves as the senior minister of the Brookline, Mass., Church of Christ.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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