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On May 12, Chandler-Gilbert Community College honored its graduating class of 2023, which includes 739 graduates who earned 750 degrees.
C-GCC President Dr. Greg Peterson expressed the college’s pride in this class.
“Impressively, the youngest graduate is age 16, with three graduates being dual-enrolled high school students,” Peterson said. “And the oldest graduate is 55-years-young.”
Peterson said the community service completed by the graduates totaled 10,510 hours of service provided. There were also 34 military veterans among this year’s CGCC’s graduates, according to a news release.
There were 116 graduates who had received scholarships. The were 102 honor students and 314 students received academic distinctions by graduating with a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
C-GCC enrollment in 2022-23 includes about 14,000 for-credit students. The college’s population includes 31% first-generation college students and 39% are dual-enrolled high school students.
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Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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