Baccalaureate Ceremony and Reception
Baccalaureate Ceremony
Friday, May 10 | 5 p.m.
Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center Auditorium
Baccalaureate Reception
Friday, May 10 | 6:30 p.m.
University Student Center Ballroom
Speaker
Dr. D’Angelo Taylor, Vice President for Hope, Unity and Belonging
Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
For more information, visit centralstate.edu/commencement.
Dr. D’Angelo Taylor serves as the inaugural Vice President for Hope, Unity and Belonging (HUB) at Belmont University. In this role, he serves as the architect of the newly created HUB-Belmont’s Office of Hope, Unity and Belonging. As part of this work, Dr. Taylor leads the university’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives in support of its strategic emphasis to embrace hope and inclusive excellence to reweave the social fabric.
Prior to accepting this role at Belmont University, Dr. Taylor was the Vice President for Student Affairs at Central State University. In that role, he was tasked with creating a premier student experience at Ohio’s only public HBCU. Dr. Taylor also served as the Associate Director of the Multicultural Center at the University of Southern Indiana. In that role, he worked to build partnerships with multiple entities at University of Southern Indiana and within the Evansville Tri-State Community.
Dr. Taylor has a passion to assist students to become all they can be and more. He is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.