CAMPBELLSVILLE -- Campbellsville University awarded 216 undergraduate and graduate diplomas during two winter commencement ceremonies on Friday.

Kelsey Best of Harrodsburg, who graduated with a political science degree, was the student speaker for the afternoon ceremonies at Ransdell Chapel on the Campbellsville University campus.

Channelle McQueen of London was salutatorian. She received a bachelor's of science degree in interdisciplinary early childhood education.

The graduates receiving degrees are as follows: 28 associate degrees in nursing; three associate of science; six bachelor of arts; two bachelor of music; 65 bachelor of science; 17 bachelor of social work; 18 bachelor of science in business administration; six master of arts in organizational leadership; 29 master of arts in special education; 22 master of business administration; one master of music in music performance; 12 master of theology; and seven master of science in counseling.

Both ceremonies began with an invocation by Dr. Joseph Owens of Lexington, chairman of the Campbellsville University Board of Trustees.