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Tufts Commencement 2025

Join us as we celebrate the civic leadership of Tufts 2025 graduates!

Tufts Commencement 2025

Join us as we celebrate the civic leadership of Tufts 2025 graduates!

By the Numbers

The Class of 2025 includes:

  • 15 students majoring in Civic Studies
  • 5 students minoring in Entrepreneurship for Social Impact
  • 7 students minoring in Peace and Justice Studies
  • 21 Tisch Scholars
  • 42 Tisch Summer Fellows
  • 15 Civic Life Ambassadors in Athletics
  • 8 Civic Semester alumni (from our Southwest program!)
  • 46 students in IGL programs
  • 11 Presidential Award for Civic Life recipients
  • 198 Honos Civicus inductees
  • 10 MyTERN students
Civic Semester students pose with Tufts flag in front of a large cactus in the Southwest

Grid of headshots of 2025 Presidential Award for Civic Life honorees

2025 Presidential Award for Civic Life Honorees

Whether leading participatory action initiatives to address food security, advocating for equity and inclusion through tech and community projects, or championing oral health equity for underserved populations, this year’s award recipients have demonstrated a deep commitment to civic engagement with creativity and dedication.

View the Honorees

Honos Civicus Inductees

The Honos Civicus Society selects and publicly recognizes graduating students who engaged in meaningful service and leadership activities or otherwise strengthened civic life on campus and beyond during their time at Tufts. This year, 198 undergraduate and graduate students are inducted.

Ayomide Oloyede Headshot

Congratulations Ayomide Oloyede!

Tisch Scholar Ayomide Oloyede, A25 will give this year's Wendell Phillips Address at Baccalaureate Ceremony.

Learn more about the Wendall Phillips Address

2025 Senior Award Honorees

This year's honorees include students involved in Tisch College programs including Louise Bond, A25, Elizabeth Marte, A25, Charles Mitchell, E25, Oyinkansola Akin-Olugbade, A25, Joel Omolade, A25, and Cathy (Lishan) Yao, A25!
 

Photo of the back of two graduates in caps and gowns with a blue Tufts University banner in between.

2025 MyTERN Graduation Ceremony

Thursday, May. 8 |  6:00 - 8:00pm |  ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center

Please join us for Tufts University’s fifth MyTERN college and reentry program graduation ceremony!

Learn more and Register

Class of 2025 in the News

Congratulations Dr. Jim O'Connell

Longtime friend of Tisch College, Dr. Jim O'Connell is receiving an honorary degree at the Class of 2025 all-university ceremony. Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues established Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) in 1985. BHCHP hosts Tufts University School of Medicine students as part of the Community Service Learning program

He joined us in Fall 2023 for a Solomont Speaker Series event. 

Watch the Conversation on YouTube

Jim O'Connell and Becky Lee in Conversation