Dr. Henrie Treadwell to Receive Honorary Degree

 

TreadwellHenrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D., executive director and senior advisor, Community Voices, is one of three students to desegregate the University of South Carolina (USC) in 1963.  Dr. Treadwell has dedicated her life's work to improving access to primary health care, disease prevention and other needed services. This August, USC will acknowledge her many accomplishments and she will receive the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.

 

 

The university expects to award more than 1,400 degrees for baccalaureate, master's and professional degree recipients from all eight campuses at 10:30 a.m. in the Colonial Life Arena. The hooding ceremony for doctoral candidates will be at 8:30 a.m. in the Koger Center for the Arts. Thomas Chandler, dean of the Arnold School of Public Health, will be the speaker.

 

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