Law School Ceremony

Congressman Dave Camp represents the people of the 4th Congressional District of Michigan, which is comprised of portions of the state’s central and northern regions. He is also the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Albion College in 1975, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego in 1978.

As the head of the Committee on Ways and Means, Camp is helping to set the nation’s economic, health care and social welfare policies. His committee has sole jurisdiction over tax policy and oversees tariff and trade laws, Medicare, Social Security, and welfare and unemployment programs.

Recognized for “decisive breakthroughs” on significant legislation since his first days in Congress, Camp’s signature issues include making America more competitive by lowering and simplifying tax rates for individuals, families and employers; reforming health care to focus on wellness and prevention; expanding access to quality, affordable health care through tax free savings accounts; protecting the welfare of the nation’s children through family focused foster care and adoption programs; and, promoting the production and use of alternative energy, which is a growing industry in Michigan and the 4th Congressional District.

Camp was born and raised in Midland, Mich., and currently resides there with his wife and three children.

Graduate Schools Ceremony

Carolyn Y. Woo, PhD, is president and chief executive officer (CEO), of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the Catholic bishops of the United States to serve survivors of World War II in Europe, CRS has become one of the world’s largest and most respected international relief and development agencies, reaching more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries each year.

Before coming to CRS in January 2012, Dr. Woo served from 1997 to 2011 as dean of the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. During her tenure, the Mendoza College was frequently recognized as the nation’s leading business school in ethics education and research, and received top ranking in 2010 and 2011 for its undergraduate business program from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Prior to the University of Notre Dame, she served as associate executive vice president for academic affairs at Purdue University.

Dr. Woo was born and raised in Hong Kong, and immigrated to the United States to attend Purdue University, where she received her BS, MSIA and PhD degrees. During her academic career, her teaching and research interests included corporate and competitive strategy, entrepreneurship, management of innovation and change, and organizational systems.

Dr. Woo and husband David E. Bartkus reside in Baltimore and have two sons, Ryan and Justin.

Morning Undergraduate Ceremony: College of Arts & Sciences
Honorary Degree Recipient

As founder and chief executive officer (CEO), of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of nearly 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an “everyone a changemaker™” world.

Drayton has been a social entrepreneur since an early age. During his years as an undergraduate at Harvard and a law student at Yale, he launched a number of organizations, including Yale Legislative Services and Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences.

From 1977 to 1981, Drayton served as assistant administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he launched emissions trading (the basis of the Kyoto Protocol) and other reforms. In 1981, he founded both Ashoka and Save EPA, the predecessor to Environmental Safety. With the support that he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow in 1984, he was able to devote himself fully to Ashoka. In addition to his current role as chairman and CEO of Ashoka, he is the chair of Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working!

Drayton has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. In 1996, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his leadership in public service. In 1999, Common Cause awarded him its Public Service Achievement Award. In 2005, he received the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award and was selected as one of “America’s Best Leaders” by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2006, he was recognized as being one of Harvard University’s 100 “Most Influential Alumni.” In 2007, he received the Duke University Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship’s (CASE) Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award, the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s 2007 Honorary Fellow Award, and the Goi Peace Foundation’s Peace Award. In 2009, he was named Honorary Fellow at Oxford’s Balliol College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Yale University. In 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate from NYU, as well as the Essl Social Prize for his work creating and building the field of social entrepreneurship. In 2011, he received Honorary Doctorates from Babson College and Marquette University. Most recently, Drayton received the John W. Gardner Leadership Award from Independent Sector, the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s Social Entrepreneurship Award, and the Prince of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation, Spain’s highest honor.

Afternoon Undergraduate Ceremony: School of Business Administration & Engineering Program

Albert (Al) P. Carey is chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, a unit of PepsiCo. PepsiCo owns the world’s largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales each. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other foods and beverages that are household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Carey is responsible for overseeing all aspects of PepsiCo’s beverage business across North, South and Central America. He joined PepsiCo in 1981, and has served in a variety of positions, including director, Trade Development, Frito-Lay North America (FLNA); vice president, National Sales, FLNA; vice president/general manager, Foodservice, FLNA; division president, FLNA West; chief operating officer, FLNA; senior vice president, Sales, Pepsi-Cola North America (PCNA); senior vice president, Sales and Retailer Strategies, PCNA; chief operating officer, PepsiCo Beverages and Foods; president, PepsiCo Sales; and most recently as president and chief executive officer, FLNA. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing all of FLNA - the company’s most profitable operating division and largest North American business.

Before joining PepsiCo, Carey worked at Procter & Gamble. He is based in Somers, N.Y.