Pedro Reyes, the associate vice chancellor for academic planning and assessment at the University of Texas in Austin, was in Madison Tuesday night to give the commencement address for the 16th annual high school completion recognition ceremony at Madison Area Technical College.
He addressed a group of about 450 graduates and their friends and families during a standing-room-only commencement ceremony in the Mitby Theatre at the Truax campus.
….Reyes, who studied English for two semesters at MATC before transferring to UW-Madison, where he eventually earned his Ph.D., said he came to Madison without knowing one word of English.