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Illumination celebration unites campus and community on Oberlin’s bucolic Tappan Square.

Oberlin College will celebrate the Class of 2023 on Monday, May 22 with a commencement ceremony on Tappan Square beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sadie Owens ’23, a politics major, was selected by the Commencement Class Speaker Search Committee to address the graduating class.

Prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrated for his thoughtful explorations of humanity’s place in the world.

On Sunday, June 5, Oberlin College will celebrate the Class of 2022 with a Commencement ceremony on Tappan Square beginning at 9:30 a.m. Cyril Amanfo ’22, a neuroscience and theater major, was selected by the Commencement Class Speaker Search Committee to address the graduating class. A livestream of the events will be available on the commencement page.

Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua D. Angrist ’82 will deliver the keynote address for the Commencement ceremony honoring the Class of 2022.

Henry Hicks and Joshua Rhodes have been selected to address the Class of 2021 in their commencement ceremonies on May 14.

New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker will give the keynote Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of fine arts. The college will also present honorary degrees to journalist, novelist, and film critic Renata Adler, composer John Harbison, and Paul Quinn College President Michael J. Sorrell.

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day we look back at the civil rights activist's visits to Oberlin College, and the powerful 1965 commencement speech he gave in Tappan Square.

The extraordinary challenges of COVID-19 called for creative planning to send off graduates in a meaningful way.

Apple executive Lisa Jackson will give the keynote Commencement address; scientist Joanne Chory and broadcast journalist Robert Krulwich ’69 will also receive honorary degrees.