What You Need to Know About Rutgers Commencement 2019
Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Sunday, May 19, 10 A.M. Rutgers University–Newark, Wednesday, May 22, 9 A.M. Rutgers University–Camden, Wednesday-Thursday, May 22-23 (Times vary)
An estimated 18,825 graduates will receive degrees from Rutgers this year. They include approximately 12,187 baccalaureate degrees, 4,926 master’s degrees, 1,711 doctorates (including professional doctorates) and one specialist of education degree. Since its founding in 1766, Rutgers has awarded 598,874 academic degrees (excluding the 2019 estimated total).
Locations: HighPoint.com Stadium, Piscataway; Prudential Center, Newark; BB&T Pavilion, Camden
Remarks, New Brunswick: Devin and Jason McCourty, Super Bowl champions, philanthropists and Rutgers alumni (Devin McCourty, Class of 2010; Jason McCourty, Class of 2009), and Suzanne Link (student speaker), president, Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA); human resource management and labor studies and employment relations double major. Hometown: Paramus, N.J.
Honorary Degrees:
Rutgers University-New Brunswick will present honorary degrees to Devin and Jason McCourty (Doctor of Humane Letters), the keynote speakers at commencement, and to Governor Philip Murphy (Doctor of Laws), New Jersey’s governor and former U.S. ambassador to Germany under President Barack Obama.
Rutgers University-Newark will present an honorary degree to Dorothy Roberts (Doctor of Laws), the keynote speaker at commencement. Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law.
Rutgers University-Camden will present honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier and Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, the keynote speaker at the law school commencement.
General Information:
This is Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s ninth commencement at HighPoint.com Stadium, and it is the seventh presided over by President Robert Barchi, whose tenure as Rutgers’ 20th president officially began in September 2012.
Students from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences participate in the Rutgers-New Brunswick commencement, although some individual schools hold convocations in Newark.
The School of Arts and Sciences will hold its convocation in HighPoint.com Stadium at 12:30 p.m. following the Rutgers-New Brunswick commencement. Academic departments should be contacted for information about individual receptions. The remaining schools and colleges will hold convocations or receptions. The schedule follows.
NOTE: Estimated numbers of graduates are from the Office of the University Registrar.
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Thursday, May 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: New Brunswick undergraduate student convocation – Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
Speaker: Jens Molbak, founder of WinWin
Wednesday, May 22, 9 a.m.
Location: Newark undergraduate student convocation – Prudential Center, 25 Lafayette St., Newark (part of Rutgers-Newark's larger commencement ceremony).
Speaker: Dorothy Roberts, scholar of race, gender and the law
Friday, May 24, 4 p.m.
Location: Graduate student convocation – New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Speaker: William J. Federici, retired senior vice president and chief financial officer for
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
1,767 (1,026 New Brunswick and 741 Newark) undergraduate degrees; 1,018 graduate degrees
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF APPLIED AND PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Thursday, May 16, 11 a.m.
Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., New Brunswick
Speaker: Anne Gregory, associate professor, of the School Psychology Program.
65 graduate degrees
MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Thursday, May 16, 2:30 p.m.
Location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Jack Grossbart, independent producer
164 undergraduate degrees, 77 graduate degrees
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
Thursday, May 16, 3 p.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
939 joint undergraduate degrees, 229 graduate degrees
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Friday, May 17, 10 a.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
1,482 graduates
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Friday, May 17, 4 p.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
Speaker: Thomas A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of the Raytheon Company
904 graduates
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Friday, May 17, 5 p.m.
Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., New Brunswick
Speaker: Mark Wade, M.D., director of the Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness
164 graduate degrees
EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY
Saturday, May 18, 9 a.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
Speaker: Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
156 undergraduate degrees, 142 graduate degrees (273 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in other schools’ totals)
DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m.
Location: Antilles Field, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
Rain: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Sheila Y. Oliver, New Jersey Lieutenant Governor
Recognizing 674 graduating seniors enrolled in Douglass Residential College
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS
Saturday, May 18, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
Speaker: Patricia A. (Patti) Lee, SMLR ’95, executive vice president of global learning and development and chief social responsibility officer of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts
130 undergraduate degrees, 140 graduate degrees (449 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in other schools’ totals)
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEW BRUNSWICK COMMENCEMENT
Sunday, May 19, 10 a.m.
Location: HighPoint.com Stadium, Piscataway
Speakers: Devin McCourty and Jason McCourty, Rutgers alumni and Super Bowl LIII champions and Suzanne Link, president, Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA).
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Sunday, May 19, 12:30 p.m.
Location: HighPoint.com Stadium, Piscataway
For information about individual academic department celebrations, contact the departments directly.
5,206 graduates
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY – NAVY
Monday, May 20, 10 a.m.
Location: College Avenue Student Center multipurpose room, 126 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Ambassador Ryan Crocker, former career ambassador for the U.S. Foreign Service, serving as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon between 1990-2012.
Five Navy ensigns to be commissioned and one second lieutenant (Marine Corps) to be commissioned
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Monday, May 20, 10 a.m.
Location: Lawn near College Pond (“Passion Puddle”), New Brunswick
Rain: Louis Brown Athletics Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
680 graduates
NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL
Monday, May 20, 10 a.m.
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Speaker: Torian Easterling, M.D., NJMS ’07
160 medical degrees
NEWARK GRADUATE SCHOOL HOODING
Monday, May 20, 3 p.m.
Location: Paul Robeson Campus Center, Essex Room, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark
Speaker: Shiva Singh, Ph.D., chief of the Undergraduate and Predoctoral Training Branch
in the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health
168 graduates
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Monday, May 20, 3 p.m.
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway
Speaker: Sheila Y. Oliver, New Jersey Lieutenant Governor
721 graduate degrees
RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Monday, May 20, 4 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
155 Doctor of Dental Medicine degrees
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Monday, May 20, 4:30 p.m.
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
381 graduates
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL
Monday, May 20, 7 p.m.
Location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Keith P. Lewis, R.Ph., M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
189 medical degrees
ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Tuesday, May 21, 10 a.m.
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Patricia Devitt Risse, Pharm.D., PHARM’85,’93, president of Precision for Medicine, Oncology and Rare Disease
202 Pharm.D. degrees
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY – ARMY
Tuesday, May 21, 10 a.m.
Location: College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: General Mark A. Milley, 39th Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army
18 second lieutenants to be commissioned
SCHOOL OF NURSING-CAMDEN
Wednesday, May 22, 9 a.m.
Location: BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden
Speaker: Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of the American Nurses Association
254 undergraduate degrees, 6 graduate degrees
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEWARK COMMENCEMENT
Wednesday, May 22, 9 a.m.
Location: Prudential Center, 25 Lafayette St., Newark
Participants:
School of Arts and Sciences-Newark (765 graduates)
University College-Newark (80 graduates)
Graduate School-Newark (168 graduates)
School of Public Affairs and Administration (106 undergraduate degrees and 149 graduate degrees)
School of Criminal Justice (245 undergraduate and 16 graduate degrees)
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick 1,767 (1,026 New Brunswick and 741 Newark) undergraduate degrees and 1,018 graduate degrees
Speaker: Dorothy Roberts, global scholar, law professor and social justice activist. Honorary Doctor of Laws degree recipient.
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY – AIR FORCE
Wednesday, May 22, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Rutgers Academic Building, Room 2125, 15 Seminary Pl., New Brunswick
Speaker: (Ret) Major General Robert Kenny, USAF (Rutgers, 1978; AFROTC Detachment 485).
Six second lieutenants to be commissioned
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL-CAMDEN
Wednesday, May 22, 2 p.m.
Location: BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden
Speaker: Wendy Osefo, (Rutgers-Camden MS, 2012; Ph.D., 2016) assistant professor of education at Johns Hopkins University and a national political commentator.
201 graduates
SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Wednesday, May 22, 5 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Speaker: Denise V. Rodgers, M.D., FAAFP vice chancellor for Interprofessional Programs at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
188 undergraduate degrees, 314 graduate degrees
CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Wednesday, May 22, 6 p.m.
Location: BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden
Speaker: Patrick Harker, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Camden College of Arts and Sciences (639 graduates)
University College-Camden (131 graduates)
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL AT CAMDEN
Thursday, May 23, 9:30 a.m.
Location: BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden
Speaker: Neal Katyal, partner at Hogan Lovells and former Acting Solicitor General of the United States
94 graduates
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Thursday, May 23, 10 a.m.
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Speaker: Catherine Alicia Georges, Ed.D., RN, professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at Lehman College at the City University of New York and member of the AARP board of directors
370 undergraduate degrees, 228 graduate degrees
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-CAMDEN
Thursday, May 23, 2 p.m.
Location: BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden
Speaker: Frank Giordano, president and CEO of the Philly POPS and executive director of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission
402 undergraduate degrees, 111 graduate degrees
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL IN NEWARK
Friday, May 24, 10 a.m.
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Speaker: Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
226 graduates
Learn more about commencement at http://commencement.rutgers.edu