The Pursuit of Progress
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns urges the Class of 2022 to be “virtuous and purposeful.”
A Long-Delayed, In-Person Commencement for 2020 and 2021 Graduates, Too
… and the Class of 2020 comes back strong.
A Wise Move
First Commencement on campus.
Tearing Down Walls, Within and Without
A socially distanced—but in-person!—celebration.
Quarantine Commencement
A virtual sendoff to the Class of 2020.
Change the World
“Hopelessness is the enemy of justice.”
Social Justice Activist to Speak
Criminal-justice advocate Bryan Stevenson to speak.
Moments to Remember
Mitchell reports: “You never finish becoming.”
Andrea Mitchell to Speak
Commencement 2018.
“Save a Life, Serve a Cause, Seek the Sublime”
Booker to Class of 2017: Choose to make “a world of change.”
Commencement Speaker: Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey to speak at Commencement.
Storied Ending
Hamilton creator to Class of 2016: “Your stories are essential.”
Class of 2016 Gets Broadway Star
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Commencement speaker
Graduation, Westeros Style
Powers to Class of 2015: “[T]o save the world, start by acting ‘as if’”
Honorary Degrees
Honorands, Commencement 2015.
Graduation, Gangnam Style
Legend to Class of 2014: Go “all in” and “dare to love.”