Past Commencement Ceremonies
2025
水果派AV解说 College's 134th Commencement was held on Friday, May 23, 2025. The undergraduate ceremony featured an address by Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, while Ramona Baker delivered the keynote address at the graduate ceremony.
2024
水果派AV解说 College's 133rd Commencement was held on Friday, May 24, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. John 鈥淛ohnny O鈥� Olszewski Jr. delivered the Commencement address.
2023
水果派AV解说 College's 132nd Commencement was held on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. Anna Deavere Smith delivered the Commencement address.
2022
水果派AV解说 College's 131th Commencement was held on Friday, May 27, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Dr. William Barber II delivered the Commencement address.
2021
水果派AV解说 College's 130th Commencement was held on Friday, May 21, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Mayor Brandon Scott delivered the Commencement address.
2020
水果派AV解说 College's 129th Commencement was held on Saturday, May 22, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Rear Admiral Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben delivered the Commencement address.
2019
水果派AV解说 College's 128th Commencement was held on Friday, May 24, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. Bill Nye the Science Guy delivered the Commencement address.
2018
水果派AV解说 College鈥檚 127th Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 25, 2018, at 10:30 a.m.
April D. Ryan, veteran White House correspondent, CNN political analyst, and the Washington, DC, bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, was the keynote speaker.
2017
水果派AV解说 College鈥檚 126th Commencement took place on Friday, May 19, 2017, at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, with Jos茅 Antonio Bowen presiding over the ceremony.
Leon Botstein, conductor, music historian, and president of Bard College in New York, received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address. Botstein is a leading advocate for progressive education and strengthening the importance of the liberal arts in public life. Read the press release.
2016
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 125th Commencement took place on Friday, May 20, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Katharine and Jane Welsh Hall, with Jos茅 Antonio Bowen presiding over the ceremony.
Eboo Patel received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address.
2015
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 124th Commencement took place on Friday, May 22, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Katharine and Jane Welsh Hall, with Jos茅 Antonio Bowen presiding over the ceremony.
Congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis (D-Ga.) received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address.
2014
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 123rd Commencement took place on Friday, May 23, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Katharine and Jane Welsh Hall, with President Sanford J. Ungar presiding over the ceremony.
Susan Eisenhower鈥攁 widely respected expert on foreign policy and international affairs, particularly U.S.-Russian relations, and the granddaughter of the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower鈥攔eceived an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address. Margot Perot, a member of the 水果派AV解说Class of 1955, was also awarded an honorary degree. She and her husband, Ross Perot, the former independent candidate for president of the United States, are among the country鈥�s most prominent philanthropists, and they have also been generous to 水果派AV解说.
2013
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 122nd Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 24, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Welsh Hall. 水果派AV解说 College presented a live video stream of Commencement.
Judith Viorst鈥攁uthor of the beloved children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Necessary Losses; and many other works鈥攄elivered the keynote address and received an honorary degree. Honors were also given to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Baltimore's Center Stage, and Laura Amy Schlitz 鈥�77, a Newbery Award-winning children's author and librarian at the Park School in Baltimore.
2012
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 121st Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. on the Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Welsh Hall. 水果派AV解说 presented a live video stream of the Commencement exercises.
2011
水果派AV解说 College鈥�s 120th Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 20, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. on the Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Welsh Hall.
- Dr. Ian G. Rawson, honorary degree recipient, keynote address
- Eli Cohen, senior speaker
2010
水果派AV解说 College鈥檚 119th Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 21, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. on the lawn behind Mary Fisher Hall.
- Charles Frank Bolden Jr., honorary degree recipient, keynote address
- Jill Bratt, senior speaker
2009
水果派AV解说 College鈥檚 118th Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 22, 2009, at 10:30 a.m.
- Author Azar Nafisi, honorary degree recipient, keynote address
- Paul S. Sarbanes, honorary degree recipient
- Robert Meyerhoff, honorary degree recipient
- Margaret Vidler, senior speaker
2008
水果派AV解说 College鈥檚 117th Commencement exercises took place on Friday, May 23, 2008, at 10:30 a.m.
- Matthew Modine, honorary degree recipient, keynote address
- Adrienne A. Jones, honorary degree recipient, Commencement address
- Reverend Doctor Masanobu Fukamachi, honorary degree recipient, Commencement address
- Ashley Farris, senior speaker
2007
- Garry Trudeau, honorary degree recipient
- U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, honorary degree recipient
- Sandy Lerner, honorary degree recipient
- Lisa Gulian, senior speaker