The 2005 Commencement Ceremony was held Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 11:00 A.M. at the Office Depot Center located in Sunrise, Florida.

Honorary Degree Citation & Steve Wozniak's Commencement Speech Video Click on the media type above to download.

Honorary Degree Citation
Steve Wozniak, Innovator and Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Steve Wozniak, you have dedicated your life to technological innovation, and to the advancement of educational technology.

As a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, you helped shape the computing industry with your design of Apple Computer's first line of products, the Apple I and II, as well as influencing the design of the popular Macintosh computer.

For your achievements at Apple Computer, you were awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President Ronald Reagan in 1985, which is the highest honor bestowed to American innovators.

You were inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000, and were awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment, and have received numerous awards and recognitions from technology and civic organizations.

Making significant investments of both time and resources in education, you lit "the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers" by adopting California's Los Gatos School District, and providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. You also founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and were the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet, and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

A true believer in education, you earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, and have received an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University.

Steve Wozniak, in acknowledgment of your lifelong commitment to technology and education, the trustees of Nova Southeastern University are proud to award you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, with all of its rights and privileges.

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Center for Psychological Studies
Criminal Justice Institute
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship
Oceanographic Center
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