President at Commencement

Honorary Doctorates

2020     Honorable Hannibal Ware (Speaker)
             Eugene Petersen, MD.

2019     Bakari Sellers Esq. (Speaker)
             Cornel A. Williams
             Simon B. Jones-Hendrickson
             Honorable Loretta Lynch

2018     Danny Glover (Speaker)
             Athniel "Addie" Ottley
             Holland Redfield II
             Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, Esq.

2017     Iyanla Vanzant (Speaker)
             Stanley Jacobs
             Ruth E. Thomas

2016     Sir Hillary McDonald Beckles (Speaker)
             Ruth Moolenaar
             Richard A. Schrader, Jr.

2015     Marian Wright Edelman (Speaker)
             Charles W. Turnbull, Ph.D.
             Ruth Harrigan Beagles, Ed.D.

2014     Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Speaker)
             Horace Clarke
             Honorable Ron de Lugo

2013     Kweisi Mfume (Speaker)
             George Tyson
             Honorable Terrence Todman

2012     Beverly Tatum (Speaker)
             Alfred O. Heath, MD.
             Honorable Donna Christensen, MD.

2011     Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D. (Speaker)

2010     Randall Robinson (Speaker)

1991     Ralph M. Paiewonsky