Heartland Community College
Commencement to be held May 18th
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[May 09, 2018]
NORMAL
Heartland Community College’s 26th annual commencement takes place
Friday, May 18, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at the Grossinger Motors Arena at
101 S. Madison St. in downtown Bloomington.
The ceremony will recognize those graduating with associate degrees
and certificates as well as students from the Heartland Academy for
Learning Opportunities (HALO) and Adult Education program.
Approximately 275 graduates are expected to participate.
Justin Boyd selected as 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
HCC alum Justin Boyd is the College’s 2018 Distinguished Alumni
Award recipient and will be recognized at the commencement ceremony.
Boyd is the tenth recipient of the annual award, which recognizes
individual career achievements and positive community impact while
exhibiting Heartland values.
Justin is a professional Financial Representative with COUNTRY
Financial. Outside of his career Justin volunteers for local
non-profits and community organizations such as Bloomington-Normal
Sunrise Rotary, West Bloomington Revitalization Project, and The
Salvation Army. He has also served on the board of directors for The
McLean County Chamber of Commerce, The Beyond the Books Educational
Foundation, and the Bloomington-Normal Chapter of N.A.I.F.A.
Justin was also selected as one of the “Twenty Under Forty” by The
Pantagraph in 2015 and as “Next Professional of the Year” presented
by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce in 2015.
Justin is actively involved in local government by serving as Chair
of the Bloomington City Planning Commission and a former member of
the Bloomington Downtown Task Force.
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Abigail Jackson selected as student speaker
Heartland’s commencement will include student speaker Abigail Jackson.
Abigail is a Heartland Student Ambassador, “Spokes Student,” and serves as the
Secretary of the HCC Phi Beta Lambda chapter. She grew up in Minier, and
graduated from Olympia High.
Abigail has attended the Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership conference twice. She
also presented a workshop at the Fall Leadership Conference on how to write a
state-winning community service project paper and gave a national-placing
presentation on the same topic.
She will be attending this year’s National Leadership Conference in Baltimore.
After graduation, she is transferring to ISU to pursue a degree in Crop and Soil
Science.
Ruth Mavinga will represent the Adult Education class of 2018
Ruth Mavinga is originally from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She started English as a Second Language at Heartland Community College in 2016.
She recently completed the highest level of the Academic English Program and is
studying in the Business Technology certificate program.
[Steve Fast
Associate Director of Public Information
Heartland Community College] |