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Commencement

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
Civic Semester students pose with Tufts flag in front of a large cactus in the Southwest

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

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