Alumni are invited back to campus Friday, June 6-Sunday, June 8 for a weekend of engaging activities to reconnect and reminisce. Special milestone Reunion events take place for classes ending in zero and five. More information is available at www.mcdaniel.edu/alumniweekend.
Published during Military Appreciation Month, McDaniel has been recognized for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year among the nation’s top schools for military and veteran students and as a Military Spouse Friendly School. McDaniel has annually made the Military Friendly® Schools list since 2009.
Among family and friends, 380 bachelor’s candidates crossed the stage to receive their degrees on Friday, May 23, during McDaniel College’s 155th Commencement ceremony. Military and business leader Linda L. Singh addressed the graduating class, talking to them about power, resilience, self-care, and leaning into the uncertainty of the world. An Honorary Doctor of Public Service was also awarded to former U.S. Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger.
On the eve of their graduation, McDaniel College seniors in the Class of 2025 were honored with academic, activity, and leadership awards. Prior to the event, the graduating seniors took part in the Arch Processional led by McDaniel President Julia Jasken.
At McDaniel’s 2025 Graduate Commencement Ceremony, 283 students celebrated the achievement of earning their master’s degrees, conferred from 22 programs. Two special awards were presented during the ceremony. One student award was given to a master’s degree recipient in the Deaf Education program, while a faculty award was presented to a senior online graduate adjunct lecturer in School Librarianship.
McDaniel College celebrates its 155th Commencement for the Class of 2025. The college's Graduate Commencement Ceremony is Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m. and the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony will be held Friday, May 23, at 1 p.m. Both ceremonies take place in the college’s Gill Center. A live stream of both ceremonies will also be available online at mcdaniel.edu/commencement.
Bernie Vogel, owner of JeannieBird Baking Company, received the 2025 Delta of Maryland Lifelong Learner Award from the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society at McDaniel College during the college's daylong Academic Symposium on Monday, May 5.
Two McDaniel alumni received Trustee Alumni Awards, the highest alumni honor given at McDaniel, during the Trustee-Faculty Dinner held May 2. The 2025 recipients are Jennifer Hill Bubczyk '93, president of Hill Development Group LLC and an active supporter of McDaniel’s Carroll County Scholars program, and Norm Sartorius '69, an acclaimed woodworker known for his fine art wooden spoons.
Update: Sana Askari, junior Political Science, Business Administration, and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies major who presented Esheel, earned the $5,000 top prize as the first-place winner at McDaniel's 2025 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge.
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