ASU Undergraduate Commencement Spring 2025

Описание: About 13,700 undergraduates gathered to celebrate with their families and loved ones at the Spring 2025 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony held at Mountain America Stadium.

ASU President Michael Crow addressed the crowd, saying that ASU’s charter was born out of the battle for democracy that started 250 years ago when American colonists took up arms against the British — before the Declaration of Independence was signed.

“That led to inalienable rights guaranteed for each of you sitting in this stadium,” he said.

“The one we focus on is the right to learn — to be the person you want to be.”

Crow said that ASU exists to create lifelong learners.

“We want you to be able to adapt, to be able to adjust and to recognize how to move our country forward,” he said.

Elizabeth Alexander, a multiple Pulitzer Prize finalist and now the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, received an honorary degree for contributions to the cultural health of American society.

She told the crowd how she knew Arizona native and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (for whom ASU’s law college is named) years ago in Washington, D.C., when O’Connor ran a small exercise class for women in the neighborhood.

“It was not just a morning exercise routine. It was the importance of community large and small, and accountability to each other and interest and care in other people as whole people,” she said.

Alexander urged the graduates to cherish and strengthen their communities.

“It is the communities we build, not our individual achievements alone, that have the greatest impact on our collective American experiment,” she said.

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