{"id":92622,"date":"2025-05-08T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92622"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:53:27","slug":"2025-spring-commencement-keynote-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_08_2025\/2025-spring-commencement-keynote-address","title":{"rendered":"2025 Spring Commencement Keynote Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Klar, an alumnus and president of the Klar Organization, delivered the keynote address at each of UToledo\u2019s two undergraduate ceremonies in Savage Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Klar, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from UToledo in 1969 and a juris doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1973, is a strong supporter of the John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation and the sponsor of its Klar Academy for Leadership Excellence. The Neff College of Business honored Klar with a Pacemaker Award in 2006 and as a Distinguished Alumni in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92623\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0113.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Klar, an alumnus and president of the Klar Organization, delivered the keynote address at each of UToledo\u2019s two undergraduate ceremonies in Savage Arena on Saturday.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0113.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0113-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Klar received a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, at Saturday\u2019s afternoon commencement ceremony. From left, Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; UToledo Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. Kenney; Klar; and UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92624\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0214.jpg\" alt=\"Klar received a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, at Saturday\u2019s afternoon commencement ceremony. From left, Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; UToledo Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. Kenney; Klar; and UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0214.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0214-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, a professor emeritus of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and a former UToledo Board of Trustees member, received a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, at the morning undergraduate ceremony. From left, Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder; Hussain; and UToledo Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. Kenney.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92626\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-9505.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, a professor emeritus of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and a former UToledo Board of Trustees member, received a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, at the morning undergraduate ceremony. From left, Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder; Hussain; and UToledo Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. Kenney.\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-9505.jpg 728w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-9505-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_08_2025\/2025-spring-commencement-keynote-address\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05032025-0113-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Steven Klar, an alumnus and president of the Klar Organization, delivered the keynote address at each of UToledo\u2019s two undergraduate ceremonies in Savage Arena on Saturday.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Steven Klar, an alumnus and president of the Klar Organization, delivered the keynote address at each of UToledo\u2019s two undergraduate ceremonies in Savage Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":92623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,38,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92628,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92622\/revisions\/92628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}