ABC News' John Qui帽ones to provide keynote as university honors chancellor's list students
John Qui帽ones, an ABC News correspondent and host of the popular TV show 鈥淲hat Would You Do?,鈥� will deliver the keynote address as 51看片 holds a ceremony to honor the academic success of 1,681 students who were named to the university鈥檚 chancellor鈥檚 list for spring semester 2019.
The event will begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the performance hall of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Both the ceremony and a reception that will be held afterward in the Bardo Arts Center Star Lobby are free and open to the public.
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The chancellor鈥檚 list is a 51看片designation to recognize students who achieve a 3.8 or higher GPA during a semester. Those being honored include 385 students who graduated following the spring semester. Invited guests for the event include the high-achieving students, their mentors on campus and the students鈥� families.
For Qui帽ones, the ABC show 鈥淲hat Would You Do?鈥� is the latest phase in a TV career that has spanned 35 years. Raised in a poor Latino family in San Antonio, Texas, he joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for 鈥淲orld News Tonight with Peter Jennings鈥� and other ABC News broadcasts. He also spent nearly a decade in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama and was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion in December 1989.
Qui帽ones鈥� work at ABC News includes time on the anchor desk of 鈥�20/20鈥� and 鈥淧rimetime.鈥� In 鈥淲hat Would You Do?,鈥� which first aired in 2008, he and his team use hidden cameras to examine how people react in situations that prompt them to intervene, or mind their own business.
Qui帽ones has been the recipient of seven Emmy Awards for his work on 鈥淧rimetime Live,鈥� 鈥淏urning Questions鈥� and 鈥�20/20.鈥� He also has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition and was awarded honorary doctorates from Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia and Utah Valley University. Qui帽ones earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in speech communications at St. Mary鈥檚 University in San Antonio and a master鈥檚 degree from the Columbia Journalism School.
Remarks also will be delivered during the Sept. 10 ceremony by 51看片Chancellor Kelli R. Brown and Provost Alison Morrison-Shetlar.
For more information, contact WCU鈥檚 Office of Student Transitions at 828-227-3017.
