Merit Pages News
(May 31, 2023) — Rebecca Conti of Killingworth was among 804 students awarded degrees at Salve Regina University’s seventy-third commencement ceremony on May 18, 2023, in Newport, Rhode Island. Conti graduated magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education and Elementary Education. Salve Regina President Kelli Armstrong conferred 804 degrees in total during the ceremony, including 589 bachelor’s degrees, 207 master’s degrees and eight doctoral degrees.
More than 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at Salve Regina from across the United States and around the world in forty-eight undergraduate majors, thirteen master’s degree programs, numerous combined bachelor’s/master’s programs, and doctoral programs in behavior analysis, humanities, international relations and nursing. The Salve Compass program, the university’s signature four-year experiential framework connecting college to career, empowers students to explore, define and pursue their academic and professional goals through intentional and transformational programming. The university is also home to the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, a multidisciplinary research center focused at the intersection of politics, policies and ideas.
