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Union's Germantown campus
to hold graduation this weekend

Jackson, Tenn. - Union University's Germantown campus will hold its spring 1999 graduation ceremony this Saturday, May 29, at 11 a.m. Commencement will take place in the chapel at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.

Union will grant approximately 70 degrees at the Germantown ceremony. The university offers a bachelor of science in nursing and master's programs in business and education at the suburban Memphis campus, which has been open since fall 1997. Tom Rosebrough, dean of the School of Education and Human Studies at Union, will deliver the Germantown commencement address. The university granted approximately 330 degrees on its Jackson campus, May 22.

Union's Germantown campus graduated its first class of RN-to-BSN nursing students last December. Union has operated a RN-to-BSN program in Germantown since fall of 1997 and has offered a similar program on its Jackson campus since 1979. The RN-to-BSN program was designed to allow registered nurses to earn a bachelor of science in nursing while continuing their professional work.