Broadcaster Jane Pauley is speaker for undergraduate ceremony
With award-winning broadcast journalist Jane Pauley as the featured speaker, the University of Indianapolis will offer – for the first time – a live webcast of its undergraduate commencement exercises.
UIndy is providing the streaming video coverage as a service to the public, as well as graduates and family and friends who are unable to attend the 2 p.m. May 1 event in Nicoson Hall. The university’s 2010 graduates, including those at UIndy’s international program sites, hail from 28 states and 23 nations, with international students accounting for 23 percent of the total.
The video feed will be available for viewing in Windows Media format at news.uindy.edu/webcast. A recording of the ceremony will be available on that same page for 90 days afterward.
Pauley, a graduate of Warren Central High School and Indiana University, began her television career at local CBS affiliate WISH-TV. She served as co-host of NBC’s Today from 1976 to 1989 and later anchored the prime-time news magazine Dateline NBC for more than a decade. A member of the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, she has received multiple Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding achievement, the Radio and Television News Directors Association’s Paul White Award for lifetime contribution to electronic journalism and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University, among other honors.
Pauley’s 2004 memoir, Skywriting: A Life out of the Blue, was a New York Times bestseller. She is a highly regarded advocate in the fields of education, mental health and children’s health. Pauley and her husband, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, are the parents of three grown children.
