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The Commencement ceremony includes presentation of candidates
for graduation, conferring of degrees by the President and
the Commencement address. No honorary degrees will be presented.
Commencement Ceremony on the Olin Great Lawn
The 2008 ceremony
will begin at 3:00 p.m. (sharp) on the Olin College
Great Lawn.
Each graduate will be called to the stage by name to
receive his/her degree. A photographer will be
recording the event. Information on how to obtain these photographs will available through the Communication Office following
Commencement. The Commencement will be simulcast in the Olin College
auditorium.
** Please note: A Beach Boys concert will begin in Wellesley at 5:00 pm on Sunday, May 18. Traffic into Wellesley Center will be blocked. When departing Olin after the commencement ceremony and subsequent events please avoid Rt 16 and Rt 135 west and pursue alternate routes.
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Commencement Speaker
 James J. Duderstadt, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Dr. James J. Duderstadt is a member of the Olin College President's Council, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, former Chair of the National Science Board, and a member of US Education Secretary Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
Additionally, Dr. Duderstadt is widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia. Having led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996—he presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency was a time of growth and conflict: of sweeping new affirmative-action and equal-opportunity programs, significant financial expansion, and reenergized student activism on issues from apartheid to codes of student conduct. To this end Duderstadt authored "The View from the Helm: Leading the American University During an Era of Change,” a book that is part memoir, part history, and part commentary.
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