The entire graduating class of 1965 and their families didn’t even fill the bleachers of the campus’s old gymnasium (now the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History). Then 74 bachelor’s degrees were conferred.
This year’s class numbered more than 5,100, including the first graduates of UNLV’s School of Dental Medicine. The university now holds two spring ceremonies, as well as a winter ceremony, in the Thomas & Mack Center to accommodate its growing numbers of new alumni. This year UNLV saw a 22 percent jump over 2005 in the number of graduates.
