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Highlights/News

The End of Yet Another Swarthmore Tradition? Commencement 2022: Reflections from Students, Alumni

President Valerie Smith shared an email on Tuesday, Nov. 2 providing an official announcement regarding the location of Commencement for the Class…

November 18, 2021
Opinion

Swarthmore Concedes Institutional Integrity for a Mertz Field Graduation

Over Garnet weekend, President Valerie Smith and Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Terhune made public for the first time the College’s…

November 11, 2021
Highlights/News

Class of 2021 To Have In-Person and Virtual Commencement

Last year, for the first time in Swarthmore’s history, commencement was held virtually due to an emergency campus evacuation because of rapidly…

April 9, 2021
Around Campus/News

Calendar changes shorten honors exam period

Last week, Provost Tom Stephenson emailed students and faculty the official academic calendar schedule for the spring of 2017. The new calendar…

November 5, 2015
Around Campus/News

Musician, judge, and plant geneticist to receive honorary degrees

At this spring’s Commencement ceremony, Interim President Constance Hungerford will bestow honorary degrees on an esteemed musician and educator, a Delaware Supreme…

January 29, 2015
Columns/Opinion/The Swarthmore Conservative

Are commencement addresses where ‘free speech’ ends?

Another year, another college commencement controversy. This time, however, it’s not at Swarthmore. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a women’s rights advocate and critic…

April 17, 2014
President Rebecca Chopp addresses the audience at Swarthmore's Commencement ceremony in 2010. Vice President for College and Community Relations Maurice Eldridge '61 is pictured onstage to the right of Chopp, in the front row. Photo by Ellen Sanchez-Huerta '13
News

Honorary Degree Committee Aimed at Ideological Neutrality, Individual Merits

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…

April 10, 2013
Around Campus/News

Choice of Zoellick as Commencement Speaker Sparks Debate

When Swarthmore announced that alumnus and former President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick ’75 would be the 2013 commencement speaker and…

April 4, 2013
Columns/Opinion/The Swarthmore Conservative

Zoellick: A Serious Choice

Over the last week, the College’s decision to invite former World Bank President Robert Zoellick ’75 to deliver a graduation speech and…

March 28, 2013
Around Campus/News

Honorary Degree Recipients Announced

At the college’s 140th commencement, approximately 350 current students will receive diplomas. But undergraduates won’t be the only ones receiving degrees. At…

March 7, 2013

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