Southern Arkansas University is scheduled to recognize 101 graduate students and 143 undergraduates during two Fall Commencement ceremonies at 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday, December 11, 2015.
Both ceremonies will take place in the gymnasium at the W.T. Watson Center. The 5 p.m. graduation will include students from the School of Graduate Studies and the Rankin College of Business. The 7 p.m. ceremony will feature students from the College of Education, the College of Liberal and Performing Arts and the College of Science and Engineering.
SAU 2015 Honor Professor Tim Daniels will provide both commencement addresses. Daniels, a 1977 graduate of 
SAU, recently retired as associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Biology at SAU. He also served as president of the SAU Faculty Senate.
For nearly 30 years, he typically spent two days a week in K-12 public school classrooms delivering model science lessons to teachers and their students. The program has been identified as a National Exemplary Program by the U.S. Department of Education. He has developed more than 50 model lessons for the K-12 sciences. He also provides around 25 days of professional development for K-12 teachers annually, both throughout Arkansas and in neighboring states.
Daniels works with the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock as a curriculum development team leader in science and technology. He is a past science director for the Arkansas Statewide Systematic Initiative of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. He was also hired to write and script AETN’s “Making the Grade” films.
