MARQUETTE, MI— Educational innovator and author Milton Chen will deliver the keynote address at Northern Michigan University’s May 4th commencement ceremony.
He is senior fellow and executive director emeritus at the George Lucas Educational Foundation and once served as director of research at Sesame Workshop in New York.
As executive director of GLEF from 1998-2010, Chen led the development and expansion of the nonprofit’s Edutopia.org website on innovative
K-12 learning. At Sesame Workshop, he helped to develop Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard College and a doctorate in communication from Stanford.
Commencement can be viewed live from the Superior Dome on WNMU-TV, Public TV13, beginning at 10:30 a.m. It can also be watched online at www.nmu.edu/commencement.
