Believe in Yourself and Help Others Believe in Themselves, U.S. Education Under Secretary Urged Santa Clara University Advanced-Degree Graduates

(PressMethod) - With fewer than eight percent of the U.S. population holding advanced degrees, those who attain those heights possess both the ability and responsibility to lift others, said Martha J. Kanter, the U.S. Under Secretary of Education.
"You can do more, you can be more, you can lift others and you can change and improve our world," said Kanter, the commencement speaker for more than 650 advanced-degree recipients from Santa Clara University's schools of engineering, business, education and counseling psychology, and arts and sciences.
SCU's 161st graduate commencement took place Friday evening at the University's Leavey Center.
Reciting a list of prominent SCU alumni including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta; Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and California Gov. Jerry Brown, she urged the graduates to "add your names to the honor roll of those who walked these corridors and made positive change happen for decades before you entered these doors."
Kanter is the woman President Obama has tapped to help educate America's workforce for the next decade. She is the former chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which serves more than 45,000 students with a budget of about $400 million. She holds a doctorate in organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco; a master's degree in education with a concentration in clinical psychology and public practice from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Brandeis University.

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