We're counting down to the big event!
Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
We are excited to invite the Rush community to attend Rush University’s 53rd Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 2 p.m. at the Credit Union 1 Arena. Please mark your calendars to help us recognize the graduating class of 2025.
For additional commencement details, planning information and safety protocols please see below and direct any commencement related questions to RU_Commencement@rush.edu.
Congratulations graduates! We look forward to celebrating you and your tremendous achievements!
Meet your 2025 Commencement speakers
Rush is excited to announce that Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and political analyst, MSNBC, will be the event’s honorary speaker.
For three decades, Robinson worked in a variety of positions at the Washington Post including foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London; foreign editor; and assistant managing editor in charge of the Post’s award-winning Style section. Robinson has sat down with presidents, world leaders and the Queen of England.
An author of a number of books, he has written about race in Brazil and music in Cuba, covered a heavyweight championship fight, witnessed riots in Philadelphia and a murder trial in the deepest Amazon. He was also the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race that resulted in the election of America’s first African American president. Through his writing, Robinson picks American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and revelatory new ways.
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