(ANGOLA) -- Former Indiana Governor and former Purdue University President Mitch Daniels will deliver the keynote address at Trine University's spring commencement ceremony.
The ceremony will take place Saturday, May 2 at 10 a.m. in the Keith E. Busse/Steel Dynamics Inc. Athletics and Recreation Center on Trine's Angola campus. Graduates from the Angola campus, the Brooks College of Health Professions, and TrineOnline will be recognized.
During the ceremony, the university will also award Daniels an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Trine President Earl D. Brooks II said Daniels' leadership as both governor and a university president has had a lasting impact on Indiana and higher education, and that his experience will provide valuable insight for graduates.
Daniels served two terms as Indiana's governor from 2004 to 2012, when the state moved from a budget deficit to earning its first AAA credit rating and implemented major infrastructure and policy reforms.
He later served as president of Purdue University from 2013 to 2022, where he instituted a tuition freeze that kept tuition and mandatory fees at 2012 levels and worked to reduce student costs.
A second commencement ceremony recognizing students from Trine's Detroit, Phoenix, and Reston, Virginia education centers will be held at 4 p.m. the same day in the ARC.