Carter, who will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree, will speak at commencement exercises at 3 p.m. May 7 in the Colonial Center. Students receiving baccalaureate, master’s, and professional degrees at the ceremony will be from the Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Information Technology, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Arnold School of Public Health, and College of Social Work.

Humpheys, who will receive an honorary doctor of literature degree, will speak at ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. May 8 in the Colonial Center. Students receiving baccalaureate, master’s, and professional degrees will be from the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management; College of Education; School of the Environment; College of Liberal Arts; School of Music; College of Science and Mathematics; Fort Jackson Military Base Program; Interdisciplinary Programs; and Honors College.

The Columbia campus expects to award more than 3,000 degrees including five associate degrees, 1,911 baccalaureate degrees, 24 Pharm.D. degrees, 26 graduate certificates, 1,101 master’s degrees, and 25 specialists degrees.

The School of Law will award 229 degrees at commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. May 7 on the Horseshoe. Francis P. “Frank” Mood, former interim dean of the School of Law and a lawyer with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd in Columbia, will be the speaker. He will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Koger Center.

The School of Medicine will award 67 degrees at commencement exercises at 12:30 p.m. May 7 in the Koger Center. Benjamin Dunlap, president of Wofford College and a former USC professor of English, will be the speaker.

The Graduate School will award 163 degrees at its doctoral hooding and commencement ceremony at 8:30 a.m. May 8 in the Koger Center. Arlene Andrews of the College of Social Work will be the speaker.

Commencement exercises at USC’s other campuses include:

• USC Lancaster will award 100 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 5 in the Bundy Auditorium of the James Bradley Arts and Sciences Building. Jean H. Toal, chief justice of the S.C. Supreme Court, will be the speaker.

• USC Aiken will award 28 associate degrees, 307 baccalaureate degrees, and three master’s degrees at 7 p.m. May 6 in the Student Activities Center. Jerry Odom, USC’s executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, will be the speaker.

• USC Spartanburg will award 33 associate degrees, 380 baccalaureate degrees, and eight master’s degrees at 7 p.m. May 8 on the Quad behind the Administrative Building. Tom Barton, president of Greenville Technical College, will be the speaker.

• USC Salkehatchie will award 94 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 10 in the Salkehatchie Conference Center. Mike Tollin, executive director of Tollin-Robbins Productions and director of the motion picture Radio, which was filmed on the Salkehatchie campus, will be the speaker.

• USC Union will award 60 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 11 in the auditorium of the campus’ main building. Jerry Odom, USC’s executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, will be the speaker.

• USC Sumter will award 76 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 12 in the Nettles Building Auditorium. Sixty baccalaureate degrees will be awarded to students who successfully completed the necessary course work in bachelor's degree programs offered on the USC Sumter campus through cooperative agreements with USC sister campuses USC Aiken, USC Columbia, and USC Spartanburg. Marjory H. Wentworth, poet laureate of South Carolina, will be the speaker.

• USC Beaufort will award 32 associate degrees at 6 p.m. May 13 on the lawn of the Performing Arts Center. Glenda E. Gilmore, the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and a former history teacher at Beaufort High School, will be the speaker.

Carter is president, chief executive officer, and trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps before beginning a career in journalism and public affairs. He came to national prominence in the late 1970s as a U.S. State Department spokesman during the Iranian hostage crisis and went on to become a sought after and distinguished educator, anchorman, correspondent, panelist, commentator, producer, and reporter on public affairs that won him, among other honors, four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award.

Humphreys, an award-winning novelist and a native of Charleston, is a graduate of Duke University, where she studied creative writing under Southern author Reynolds Price. She also earned a master’s of arts degree from Yale University and pursued a Ph.D. in English at the University of Texas at Austin. Humphreys taught literature for seven years at Baptist College of Charleston before dedicating herself to full-time writing. Her first novel, Dreams of Sleep, was published in 1984 and received the Ernest Hemingway Prize for First Fiction from the PEN American Center. Her other works include Rich in Love, The Fireman’s Fair, and Nowhere Else on Earth.

Henderson, who directed the World Health Organization’s smallpox eradication effort from 1966 to 1977, received an AB in 1950 from Oberlin College and a medical degree in 1954 from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Immediately after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Henderson was appointed as the U.S. government's first Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness to help create a plan to defend against a biological attack on the United States.

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