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Meet Your 2024 Student Commencement Speaker
May 10, 2024
Communications Staff
Julia Maskin will represent the Class of 2024 as the student commencement speaker on May 27 at Tappan Square. Maskin’s Oberlin experience has been marked by her deep connections to student life...
Rhiannon Giddens to Deliver Commencement Address to Class of 2024
April 10, 2024
Office of Communications
Grammy-winning musician and Oberlin alum will receive an honorary doctorate.
Lighting the Way
June 8, 2023
Maura Johnston
Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz ’81 first found her spark at Oberlin.
Meet the 2023 Student Commencement Speaker
May 11, 2023
Office of Communications
Oberlin College will celebrate the Class of 2023 on Monday, May 22 with a commencement ceremony on Tappan Square beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sadie Owens ’23, a politics major, was selected by the Commencement Class Speaker Search Committee to address the graduating class.
Richard Powers to Deliver Commencement Address to Class of 2023
April 17, 2023
Office of Communications
Prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrated for his thoughtful explorations of humanity’s place in the world.
Meet the 2022 Student Commencement Speaker
May 26, 2022
Office of Communications
On Sunday, June 5, Oberlin College will celebrate the Class of 2022 with a Commencement ceremony on Tappan Square beginning at 9:30 a.m. Cyril Amanfo ’22, a neuroscience and theater major, was selected by the Commencement Class Speaker Search Committee to address the graduating class. A livestream of the events will be available on the commencement page.
Nobel Prize Winner Joshua D. Angrist ’82 to Deliver Commencement Address
May 3, 2022
Office of Communications
Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua D. Angrist ’82 will deliver the keynote address for the Commencement ceremony honoring the Class of 2022.
Meet the 2021 Student Commencement Speakers
May 10, 2021
Communications Staff
Henry Hicks and Joshua Rhodes have been selected to address the Class of 2021 in their commencement ceremonies on May 14.
2021 Commencement Celebrations will be held May 14
May 7, 2021
Communications Staff
New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker will give the keynote Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of fine arts. The college will also present honorary degrees to journalist, novelist, and film critic Renata Adler, composer John Harbison, and Paul Quinn College President Michael J. Sorrell.
'Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution'
January 15, 2021
Office of Communications
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day we look back at the civil rights activist's visits to Oberlin College, and the powerful 1965 commencement speech he gave in Tappan Square.