CONVOCATION

Spring 2023

Invocation

We are gathered here in celebration of our graduates and of Mohawk College.

May the graduates, their families and friends, our Mohawk Governors and our staff, collectively and individually, continue to seek the strength to put forward in our minds:

All great and good thoughts, intended to unite us.

All generous thoughts, intended to make us celebrate the achievement of others.

All charitable thoughts, intended to make us sensitive to the needs and feelings of others.

May we together invoke all caring, brave, and meaningful acts which are worthy of our true selves.

May we think in truth and in love.

May we act in honesty and in honour.

May we seek out the best in everyone.

And, in doing so, may we find fulfillment, peace, and joy.

The Charge To The Graduates

Graduates, today you are admitted into the fellowship of graduates of Ontario Colleges, an honour bestowed only upon those who have met high standards of conduct and learning.

In the name of Mohawk College, therefore I hereby charge you:

• To safeguard the dignity and ethics of our fellowship;

• To cultivate the spirit of inquiry and innovation;

• To celebrate your role as a local and global citizen;

• To maintain, through study, the fresh viewpoint expected in an age of rapid advancement; and

• To contribute, in all these ways, to society, in order that the dignity of humankind, through you, may be constantly reaffirmed.