Where: Gill Center (Live video streams of both ceremonies will also be available on Commencement day.)
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Undergraduate Ceremony Speaker
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author, Bob Woodward
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward serves as the speaker for the undergraduate ceremony. Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein in 1973, and second in 2002 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The author of 21 bestsellers, including “All the President’s Men” and, most recently, “Peril” on the transition from the Trump to the Biden administration, he has earned nearly every major American journalism award.
Undergraduate Commencement speaker is legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author Bob Woodward.
Graduate Ceremony Speaker
Sharon Love M.S. '76, founder of the One Love Foundation
Sharon Love, who graduated from the college with a master’s degree in Deaf Education in 1976, provides remarks during the graduate ceremony. A retired teacher, Love is determined to bring awareness to domestic violence in honor of her daughter Yeardley, a college lacrosse player who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend just weeks before her graduation. Together with her daughter Lexie, she founded the One Love Foundation, a national nonprofit organization whose goal is to end relationship abuse by educating, empowering, and activating young people in a movement for social change.
Sharon Love M.S. '76 with her daughter Yeardley.
Friday, May 19, 10 a.m.
ROTC Commissioning
Baker Memorial Chapel
Graduating seniors from McDaniel who are part of the Green Terror Battalion Army ROTC program are commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army. Army ROTC has been a tradition at the college since 1919, and the Green Terror Battalion, which includes cadets from McDaniel, Hood College and Mount St. Mary’s, is one of the oldest ROTC programs in the nation.
Friday, May 19, 6:00 p.m.
Senior Arch Processional
Baker Memorial Chapel
Friday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation
Baker Memorial Chapel
Graduating seniors receive academic, activity and leadership awards during McDaniel College’s annual Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation. (Doors open at 6 p.m. for family and friends.)
Senior Week Events
Seniors! Celebrate all you have accomplished and have some fun during Senior Week, May 15-19, 2023.
MONDAY, MAY 15
Late Night Breakfast in GLAR with Games!
TUESDAY, MAY 16
CEO Career Services Sessions with Daniel DeHollander
Happy Hour at The Flood Zone Brewery
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17
Flag Football and Pickleball Tournament
Senior Sings Karaoke
THURSDAY, MAY 17
Spend the day at the O’s game! - Baltimore Orioles Baseball vs. Los Angeles Angels
FRIDAY, MAY 19
Graduation Traditions
Arch Processional
Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation
All-Campus Party
The deadline to order your regalia (cap, gown, hood) online for delivery has passed. The Bookstore has a limited number of regalia available for in person pick-up only in the Roj Student Center. Please do not delay. All commencement participants are required to wear the traditional black regalia.
Celebrate your Graduate
Show your McDaniel Pride with a Class of 2023 yard sign!
McDaniel College solicits potential Commencement speakers who exemplify the mission and values of the college and have made distinguished and notable contributions to society through scholarship or service. Suggestions must be received by December 15 in order to be considered for the upcoming ceremony.
The deadline to order your regalia (cap, gown, hood) online for delivery has passed. The Bookstore has a limited number of regalia available for in person pick-up only in the Roj Student Center. Please do not delay. All commencement participants are required to wear the traditional black regalia.
Celebrate your Graduate
Show your McDaniel Pride with a Class of 2023 yard sign!
McDaniel College solicits potential Commencement speakers who exemplify the mission and values of the college and have made distinguished and notable contributions to society through scholarship or service. Suggestions must be received by December 15 in order to be considered for the upcoming ceremony.
