Matteson to speak at SRU commencement

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Diplomas will be presented to nearly 500 Slippery Rock University undergraduate, master’s degree and doctor of physical therapy candidates Dec. 15 during the university’s 118th commencement.

Dr. Carol Matteson, president of Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass., and a Slippery Rock graduate, will deliver the commencement address at 1:30 p.m. in Morrow Field House.

Matteson, a nationally recognized leader and champion for the advancement of higher education, received her bachelor of science degree from Slippery Rock. She later earned her master’s degree at the University of Oregon and her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

She returned to Slippery Rock to teach in the physical education department and later in what was then the department of economics and business. She also served as an assistant to the president and as director of the University’s Continuing Education and Evening College.

In 1991, Matteson was named a “Distinguished Educator” in Pennsylvania, and in 1999 she received Slippery Rock University’s Outstanding Alumni Award. She helped launch SRU’s Claire R. Schmieler Leadership Institute for Professional Women.

In 1999 she created the Carol Matteson Women’s Basketball and Track and Field Scholarship, which has been presented to seven female athletes. She also established the Katherine M. Moore Memorial Fund in 1989 to honor Moore, a 1975 SRU graduate and coordinator in SRU’s McLachlan Student Health Center. The Moore scholarship has been awarded to 13 students.