COMMENCEMENT: Honorary degree recipients include an award-winning filmmaker, a sports legend, a geophysicist and the Los Angeles-raised chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Novelist C Pam Zhang, MacArthur Fellow Safiya U. Noble to deliver USC Rossier commencement addresses
COMMENCEMENT: The speakers exemplify the education school’s mission of valuing and respecting the cultural context of local communities and interrogating the systems of power that shape policies and practices.
COMMENCEMENT: The actor, director and humanitarian will address the graduating class at the pharmacy school’s 117th commencement ceremony.
Lewison, who portrayed Ben Gross in the popular Netflix series while studying psychology, will speak during the college’s graduation ceremonies May 10.
The sports icon and equality champion will deliver the keynote address on May 10.
Jackson, a USC Price School alumna, leads the federal government’s largest funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide.
Jette, a leader in the field, will address USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy graduates in May.
The USC alum will speak on May 13 at the Shrine Auditorium. Insecure writer-director-EP Prentice Penny will receive its Mary Pickford Alumni Award.
As California emerged from the pandemic, the university staged seven days of ceremonies for the classes of 2020 and 2021 — and President Carol L. Folt was determined to make it happen.
Faye Demetriou looks back at an unforgettable day in the historic stadium when the Class of 1948 celebrated commencement.