Volume 6, Issue 7 | April 2026
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Sarah Ann Wider Named SUA's 2026 Commencement Speaker
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A scholar of American literature and longtime champion of dialogue, Sarah Ann Wider will deliver SUA's 2026 commencement address. Through her published dialogue with SUA founder Daisaku Ikeda and frequent engagement with the Ikeda Center in Boston, Wider is deeply connected to the university's founding values and offers a vision of education as a lifelong practice to this year's graduates.
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| On SUA's 25th, Katherine King Reflects on Community and Connection
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Katherine King, executive vice president for university community and chief human resources officer, has been with SUA since the early days in Calabasas. As the university marks its 25th year in Aliso Viejo, she looks back on how far it's come.
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| Long Before Graduation, SUA Students Step Into the Professional World
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From a retired FBI analyst to the halls of Microsoft and Nintendo, SUA students spent this spring doing something career fairs rarely offer: discovering not just where they might work, but who they might become.
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"Having ventured into the 21st century, the world is buffeted by storms of division and hatred, forced to set sail without a clear sense of direction. For humanity to enter a new era of expansion, it is now more crucial than ever for people to engage with dogged tenacity in dialogue, a process that bonds person to person, one heart to another, transcending all that divides us."
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— Daisaku Ikeda, Message to the Tenth Commencement Ceremony of the Soka Graduate School, Calabasas Campus
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How a Campus Mentorship Launched a Photojournalism Career
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After graduating in 2025, Keito Newman's campus assignments gave way to major-league hockey, wire-service deadlines, a byline in one of the world's most recognizable newspapers, and a national award for young photojournalists. Newman and SUA staff member and mentor Watchara Phomicinda discuss what it took to get there.
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Remembering Junichi Miura, the Artist Behind SUA's Commencement Paintings
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Junichi Miura, the painter whose annual commencement works became a beloved SUA tradition, died March 9 in Nagano, Japan. He was 73.
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Behind the Scenes With Khai Nguyen
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Khai Nguyen has worked in campus security for four years. In this short video, he talks about what the job actually looks like and what serving the SUA community means to him.
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