VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 1 | 2023
CLASS OF 2023 COMMENCEMENT
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he School of Public Policy hosted the 2023 commencement on April 14, 2023, at Alumni Park on the Pepperdine University Malibu Campus to recognize the graduating class. The ceremony was opened by Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy Robert Kaufman and the invocation was delivered by Charity Wallace, School of Public Policy Board of Advisors member. Provost of Pepperdine University, Jay Brewster, warmly addressed the graduates by stating, “For each of today’s graduates, we anticipate a bright future guided by wisdom, compassion, humility, and the integrity to prioritize the common good over one’s personal gains. The world desperately needs more leaders to demonstrate these traits.”
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Expands Presence in Washington, DC, Through Joseph and Farima Czyzyk DC Scholars Program
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having a location for Pepperdine’s public policy program in the nation’s capital. Since then, it has been Czyzyk’s passion to see Pepperdine in DC.
Czyzyk’s vision for a larger DC presence for the policy school goes back more than a decade. In 2011 Czyzyk and Ed Feulner, then chair of the board of advisors, walked out of lunch in DC and discussed
“My determination that Pepperdine’s public policy education be available in Washington, DC, made establishing the Czyzyk DC Scholars Program an easy decision, especially as we mark the program’s 25th anniversary,” states Czyzyk. “Today, America needs great leaders. Pepperdine prepares students to be those great leaders. It is also important to me that 90 percent of Pepperdine students
he Pepperdine School of Public Policy has announced a $1 million endowment gift from SPP Board of Advisors chair Joseph Czyzyk, and his wife, Farima. The endowment will support the school’s highly regarded summer program in Washington, DC, which has been renamed the Joseph and Farima Czyzyk DC Scholars Program.
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