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For Immediate Release
RE: William E. Trout Speaks at Local Commencement Ceremony
William E. Trout Speaks at Local Commencement Ceremony
May 4, 1999
St. Louis, MO, May, 1999–Missouri Baptist College held their annual commencement ceremony May 1, 1999, at Maryville University’s Simon Athletic Center. The 205 graduates were conferred in degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and certificates in English. The ceremony featured Dr. William E. Troutt, President of Belmont University, as commencement speaker.
Congressionally appointed Troutt was named to and served as chair of the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education. The wide-ranging recommendations of the commission lay out an ambitious agenda for both state legislatures and institutions of higher education to address the affordability of post-secondary education. Many of the national commission’s recommendations will have a direct impact on the higher education community for years to come. Troutt is also the chairman-elect of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, whose membership includes Missouri Baptist College, Maryville University, Fontbonne College, Washington University, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Logan College, and Webster University.
Troutt gained national recognition for Belmont as a pioneer in adapting continuous quality improvement to university leadership and instruction and by winning the 1995 Innovative Management Achievement Award from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Troutt holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy/ religion from Union University, a master’s degree in higher education/ philosophy from the University of Louisville, and a doctorate in higher education from Vanderbilt University. He has completed additional study in economics at Vanderbilt University and in management at both the University of Michigan and Harvard University.
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