USC Beaufort celebrated Commencement exercises on Friday, April 26, awarding bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
The ceremony took place outdoors on the library plaza on the Bluffton campus with USCB Chancellor Al M. Panu presiding. University of South Carolina system president Michael Amiridis addressed the graduates, their families, faculty, staff and honored guests.
USC conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service to entrepreneur, environmentalist and philanthropist Richard (Dick) Stewart of Beaufort, and Rev. Alex Glenn, USCB Class of 2020, delivered the invocation and benediction.
USCB awarded 366 degrees in the academic year 2023-24, to 101 students in December and 265 students last week.