Past Commencement Ceremonies
Commencement 2018
May 20, 2018
“You can be agents for positive change,” educator, cultural anthropologist, and author Johnnetta B. Cole said to the 580 graduates at Trinity College’s 192nd Commencement.
- Read the Commencement address by Johnetta Cole
- Read the president’s charge to the graduating class
- See video content
- Read coverage from the weekend
- See photos
- Download the Commencement program
Commencement 2017
May, 17, 2017
“We must protect freedom of speech. Let people speak their minds, but then do not hesitate to criticize them for spreading falsehoods,” philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett said to the 615 graduates at Trinity College’s 191st Commencement.
- Read the Commencement address by Daniel C. Dennett
- Read the president’s charge to the graduating class
- See video content
- Read coverage from the weekend
- See photos
- Download the Commencement program
Commencement 2016
May 22, 2016
“This is the time that you can best afford to sample all that life has to offer,” William K. Marimow, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, said to the 585 graduates receiving their degrees at Trinity College’s 190th Commencement.
- Listen to the Commencement address by William K. Marimow ’69
- Read the president’s charge to the graduating class
- See video content
- Read coverage from the weekend
- See photos
- Download the Commencement program
Commencement 2015
May 17, 2015
The Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., delivered an inspiring and uplifting Commencement address that called upon Trinity’s 552 graduates “to make your life count in every fashion possible” and to “use your life for things that make for good, for the things that make for beauty, for the things that make for mystery.”