December 2025 Commencement Recap

Landmark College conferred 36 associate degrees, 8 bachelor's degrees, and 28 post-baccalaureate certificates to graduating students during a commencement ceremony held on Saturday, December 20, 2025 in the Click Family Sports Center. 

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Program 

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Academic Awards

The Community Service Award is given to the students who have unselfishly given of themselves and to the activities of the Landmark College community. 

 

The Academic Deans’ Award is given to the student who has best demonstrated the qualities that define academic success at Landmark College. These qualities include hard work, seriousness toward learning, intellectual development, and measurable achievement, such as grades.

 

The Undergraduate Research Award is given to students who exhibit active engagement in a research project in any discipline under the supervision of a faculty/staff member for at least one semester or intersession term. 

 

The Charles Drake Award is given to a student who has inspired the community by his or her personal qualities. This student is not a quitter and lives in the tradition of Dr. Charles Drake, whose vision and courage helped found the College. This student gives 100 percent, goes the extra mile, and perseveres in pursuit of his or her goals. This student helps the rest of us realize that we have more resources to draw upon than we think, and helps us keep going when we feel discouraged.

 

The President’s Award is given to the student who has best exemplified the principles we believe in here at Landmark College. The student is talented and energetic, meets difficulties head on, works hard, and is dedicated to his or her studies. This student also finds time to contribute to the well-being of other persons and to the life of the Landmark College community as a whole.

 

Class Gift 

 

December 2025 Graduates 

Associate of Arts in Business:

Associate of Arts in General Studies:

Associate of Arts in Liberal Studies:

Associate of Science in Biology:

Oz Kersten
Ben Paplawsky
Hannah Phillips-Nish

Associate of Science in Computer Science:

Associate of Science in Life Science:

Bachelor of Communication & Entrepreneurial Leadership:

Each baccalaureate student was required to complete a capstone project of their choosing.

Nailah Quail-Parker: “Falling Through the Cracks: Intersectionality and Neurodiversity”

 

Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Arts:

Each baccalaureate student was required to complete a capstone project of their choosing.

Trinket Guth*°: “Writing on Fire: An Ecstatic Verse Novel”
Brianna Rivera: “Pulling Back My Curtains”
Felicia Rivera*: “Mosaic of Self”

 

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies 

Each baccalaureate student was required to complete a capstone project of their choosing.

Isabelle Bachman: “Photographic Interpretations of the History of Disability”
Daniel Cabaniss*: “Crooked: The Effects of Partisan Gerrymandering in Modern America”
Mars Prigal: “Mental Health and Academic Performance”
 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science:

Each baccalaureate student was required to complete a capstone project of their choosing.

Marcus Aluia*: “Platformer: A Python based 2D game”
 

Certificate in Learning Differences and Neurodiversity:

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° Golden Key Honor Society
* Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
€ Honors Program
^ Communication
Ω Psychology
μ Humanities
¤ Education
¥ Integrated Arts
β Computer Science
♦ AIE-STEMPLOS scholars are a group of students at Landmark College that receive scholarship funds from the NSF and participate in cohort activities related to identifying and participating in internship activities. Students are in the AS or BS Life