The university’s 245th anniversary commencement Sunday, May 15 at 10 a.m.
An estimated 12,890 graduates – a record, for the second consecutive year – will receive degrees from Rutgers this year. They include approximately 8,634 baccalaureate degrees, 2,999 master’s degrees and 1,257 doctorates (including professional doctorates).
Location: Rutgers Stadium, Busch Campus, Piscataway
Remarks: Toni Morrison, author, Nobel Laureate. Morrison became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1993). She taught at Rutgers, 1983-1984. Morrison will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
Besides Toni Morrison, Rutgers will present honorary degrees in New Brunswick to Ernesto J. Cortés Jr., community activist and co-director of the national nonprofit Industrial Areas Foundation (Doctor of Laws), and Brooke Mackenzie Ellison, stem cell research advocate, author and educator (Doctor of Humane Letters). The Honorable Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor, legal scholar and assistant to President Obama, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at her alma mater, Rutgers-School of Law-Newark, where, she will be keynote speaker at its convocation on May 27.
General information:
This is the first universitywide commencement to be held at the new Rutgers Stadium. All undergraduate and graduate degrees are conferred at this ceremony. The School of Arts and Sciences will graduate 4,816 seniors and hold individual department receptions. The remaining schools and colleges will hold convocations or receptions. The schedule follows.
NOTE: Estimated numbers of graduates are from the Office of the University Registrar.
IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND PISCATAWAY
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY
Friday, May 13, 6 p.m.
Location: Neilson Dining Room, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Saturday, May 14, 10 a.m.
Location: Antilles Field, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
Speaker: Charlotte Bunch, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor in Gender Studies, Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences; founding director and senior scholar, Center for Women’s Global Leadership; longtime activist, author and organizer in women’s, civil and human rights movements
MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Saturday, May 14, 2 p.m.
140 graduating seniors, 69 graduate degrees (20 Doctor of Musical Arts, 15 Master of Music and 34 Master of Fine Arts)
Location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Peter Schjeldahl, author and art critic at The New Yorker
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m.
450 master’s degrees
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
GRADUATE SCHOOL-NEW BRUNSWICK
Sunday, May 15, 8 a.m. (breakfast at 7 a.m.)
932 graduates
Location: Tent, D Field (next to Stadium) Busch Campus, Piscataway
SCHOOL OF ARTS and SCIENCES
Sunday, May 15, 10 a.m. (during Commencement)
4,816 graduating seniors
Location: Rutgers Stadium, Busch Campus, Piscataway
Speaker: Executive Dean Douglas Greenberg. Alumnus (1969)
For information about individual academic department ceremonies, click here.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF APPLIED AND PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Sunday, May 15, 12:30 p.m.
60 graduate degrees
Location: Life Sciences Building Atrium, 145 Bevier Road, Busch Campus, Piscataway
Speakers: Dean Stanley Messer; Rosalind Dorlen, clinical psychologist, president, GSAPP Alumni Organization and Class of 1977; Distinguished Professor Emeritus Cyril Franks
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Sunday, May 15, 1:30 p.m.
322 graduates (300 master’s, 22 doctorates)
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave. New Brunswick
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Sunday, May 15, 1:30 p.m.
503 graduates
Location: Tent, D Field (next to Stadium) Busch Campus, Piscataway
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
(Undergraduate-New Brunswick)
Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.
360 undergraduate joint degrees (recipients are also counted in their college totals)
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
Speaker: Gary M. Cohen, executive vice president, BD. Alumnus (1980 Bachelor of Arts, 1983 MBA)
EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY
Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.
125 graduate degrees (120 undergraduate joint degrees counted in their college totals)
Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., New Brunswick
Speaker: Christopher Daggett, former administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; former commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; gubernatorial candidate (2009)
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.
592 graduates
Location: Lawn near College Pond (“Passion Puddle”), George H. Cook Campus, New Brunswick
Rain: Monday, May 16, 10 a.m., Louis Brown Athletics Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
Sunday, May 15, 6 p.m.
170 graduate degrees (690 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS
Sunday, May 15, 7 p.m.
26 undergraduate degrees, 130 graduate degrees (additional 90 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speakers: Members of the Class of 2011, with their programs and hometowns – Zachary W. Lerner, Bachelor of Science in Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Washington, D.C.; Huong Thi “Mary” Le Evans, Master of Labor and Employment Relations, South Plainfield; Susan H. Tsai, Master of Human Resource Management, Annandale; William M. Dwyer, industrial relations manager, PSEG Services Corp., Newark; president, SMLR Alumni and Friends, Class of 1997.
ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Monday, May 16, 10 a.m.
212 Pharm.D. degrees
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Peter Gillies, director, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Rutgers
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY
Monday, May 16, 3 p.m.
11 Army and four Air Force second lieutenants to be commissioned
Location: Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Ave. New Brunswick
Speaker: Retired Brig. Gen. Bruce B. Bingham, U.S. Army; executive director, Capstone Advisory Group LLC, New York. Rutgers College, Class of 1968
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Monday, May 16, 10 a.m.
515 undergraduate and 667 graduate degrees
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: Marc E. Berson, chair, The Fidelco Group, Millburn. Alumnus, Rutgers College (1966), Rutgers School of Law-Newark (1968)
Joint Convocation
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Monday, May 16, 2 p.m.
591 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-NEWARK
96 graduates
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning Jeffersonian scholar, Harvard Law School history professor and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Tuesday, May 17, 10 a.m.
126 undergraduate and 81 graduate degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St.
Speaker: Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior adviser for nursing
Joint Convocation
GRADUATE SCHOOL-NEWARK
Tuesday, May 17, 2 p.m.
254 graduates
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ADMINISTRATION
Six undergraduate and 97 graduate degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St.
Speaker: Joan Morrell, professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers-Newark
SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Wednesday, May 18, 10 a.m.
136 undergraduate and 15 master’s degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St.
Speaker: John H. Lamb, director, National Institute of Justice
SCHOOL OF LAW-NEWARK
Friday, May 27, 10 a.m.
245 graduates
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: The Honorable Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University professor; assistant to President Obama and special adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Distinguished alumna (1976)
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-CAMDEN
Thursday, May 19, 9 a.m.
265 undergraduate degrees, 85 advanced degrees
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Thomas A. Cellucci, chief commercialization officer; director, Office of Public-Private Partnerships; acting director, Research and Development Partnership Group, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Alumnus (1991, MBA)
Student Speakers: Stephanie Varnum, Class of 2011 (MBA) and Michael Bruder (undergraduate)
SCHOOL OF LAW-CAMDEN
Thursday, May 19, 1 p.m.
235 graduates
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Scott Turow, acclaimed best-selling author and attorney
Joint Convocation
CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Thursday, May 19, 6 p.m.
665 graduates
GRADUATE SCHOOL-CAMDEN
143 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-CAMDEN
164 graduates
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Margaret Marsh, executive dean, Rutgers-Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Alumna (1967, 1969, 1974)
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