{"id":22793,"date":"2016-05-02T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=22793"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:46:17","slug":"22793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/05\/02\/22793\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward Speaks at Waynesburg University Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22794\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg1-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waynesberg1\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-22794 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg1-515x300.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Woodward introduces D. Raja for his honorary degree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/john-woodward\/\">John D. Woodward, Jr.<\/a>, <span>Professor of the Practice of International Relations<\/span>\u00a0at the Frederick S. Pardee School\u00a0of Global Studies, participated in the 163rd commencement exercises of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynesburg.edu\/\">Waynesburg University<\/a> on May 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward, a Waynesburg University\u00a0trustee, introduced D. Raja, the commencement speaker, who received an honorary doctorate of humane letters.\u00a0Raja is an accomplished entrepreneur who launched his own consulting and project management practice in 1992, a venture that was to become Computer Enterprises, Inc. He is also active in Pittsburgh politics and hosts a popular weekly radio show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raja&#8217;s\u00a0strong ambition, influential career, and moral and business philosophies serve as examples to students as they prepare to become the leaders and scholars of tomorrow,&#8221; Woodward said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22795\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/05\/Waynesberg2.jpg\" alt=\"Waynesberg2\" width=\"480\" height=\"279\" class=\"wp-image-22795 size-full\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Woodward congratulates D. Raja on his honorary degree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Founded in 1849, Waynesburg University is an institution of higher learning with an undergraduate enrollment of 1,500, located in southwestern Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><span>John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.\u00a0During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in\u00a0the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C.,\u00a0East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. You can read more about him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/john-woodward\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodward  introduced D. Raja, the commencement speaker, who received an honorary doctorate of humane letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[9287,8801,9485,8904,9285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22798,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22793\/revisions\/22798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}