PROVO — A noted educator and a Korean humanitarian will be honored this week during Brigham Young University's August commencement exercises.
Neil Postman, chairman of the New York University School of Education's department of culture and communication, will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters.
Hwang Keun Ok will be awarded a Presidential Citation for her service to orphans and the poor in Korea.
An academic processional starting at the parking lot of the Abraham Smoot Building at 3:15 p.m. Thursday will kick off the rites. Commencement will begin at 4 p.m.
Elder Richard G. Scott, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is scheduled to conduct the exercises. He will be joined by BYU President Merrill J. Bateman.
Individual college convocations will start at 8 a.m. Friday in various locations on the Provo campus. Some 2,682 students are scheduled to receive degrees.
Also on Friday, Bateman and his wife, Marilyn, will greet graduates and their parents at a reception from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the BYU Museum of Art.
Postman, a professor at NYU, has written 17 books and more than 200 articles for such distinguished publications as the Harvard Education Review, the New York Times Magazine and Time magazine.
Hwang Keun Ok was principal of the Song Jook Orphanage, where she organized the "Tender Apples" children's choir.
She later organized the Tender Apples Home, an orphanage dedicated to serving the poor. She raised 84 children over a period of 20 years.