Save the Date: August 14, 2026
John M. Greene Hall
Commencement 2026 Schedule of Events | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 12 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| TBD | M.S.W. Commencement Rehearsal | Campus Center Lower Level & John M. Greene Hall |
| Friday, August 14 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| TBA | SSW Ph.D. Graduate Brunch (optional) | Mary Maples Dunn, Pierce Hall |
| TBA | Ph.D. Commencement Rehearsal | Campus Center Lower Level |
| TBA | All Graduating Students assemble and line up | Campus Center Lower Level (Rain location: Basement of John M. Greene Hall) |
| TBA | SSW Commencement (tickets not required) | John M. Greene Hall |
| Immediately following commencement | Commencement Reception for graduating students and their guests (Please limit to four guests per graduate.) | Campus Center |
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Commencement Archive
Commencement Retrospective: August 15, 2025
During our 108 Commencement Ceremony we honored 97 M.S.W. graduates and 4 Ph.D. graduates for their incredible accomplishments. Family, loved ones and friends gathered in John M. Greene Hall to celebrate this important milestone.
"We all walk through this world with our own experiences, beliefs, traumas and ways of seeing. We are all capable of causing harm, or pain or rupture, and we are also capable of repair, humanity, tenderness and kindness. We actively choose which path to take in our interactions with the world. We must mindfully and consciously hold our own internal and external lives with those of others; to be able to know ourselves and to really and deeply see, hear and understand others. To be able to empathize and mentalize, and to hold multiple truths at once.
itself."
-Doctoral Class Speaker Maria Ximena Maldonado-Morales, M.P.H., Ph.D., LCSW
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Commencement Retrospective: August 16, 2024
During our 107 Commencement Ceremony we honored our M.S.W. graduates and Ph.D. graduates for their incredible accomplishments. Family, loved ones and friends gathered in John M. Greene Hall to celebrate this important milestone.
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Commencement Retrospective: August 18, 2023
During our 106 Commencement Ceremony we honored 123 M.S.W. graduates and 6 Ph.D. graduates for their incredible accomplishments. Family, loved ones and friends gathered in John M. Greene Hall to celebrate this important milestone.
"It is time, fellow social workers, for us to reconsider what we do individually and collectively as professionals and to abandon all practices that make us complicit in the status quo. We must reconcile with our positionality, and our seductive and pervasive relationship with capitalism. We can no longer serve the neoliberal agenda and prerogative of the ruling class. We cannot address the major problems that confront society one individual at a time. And we can no longer merely tend to the wounds of a broken system; we must strive to heal the system itself."
-Doctoral Class Speaker Jamie Daniels, M.S.W. '14, Ph.D. '23
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2023 Commencement Ceremony Celebrates Strength and Accountability