Penn alumna Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” will deliver the 2018 University of Pennsylvania Commencement address on Monday, May 14.
University of Pennsylvania's 262nd Commencement ceremony will feature speaker Andrea Mitchell and seven additional honorees as 5,000 graduates celebrate the culmination of their academic lives at Penn.
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” will deliver the 2018 University of Pennsylvania Commencement address on Monday, May 14, upon receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
Other honorary degree recipients are marine ecosystem research pioneer Sylvia Earle; Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; sociologist and scholar Elihu Katz, Distinguished Trustee Professor Emeritus of Communication at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication; Yannick Nézet-Séguin music director and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the music director designate of the Metropolitan Opera of New York; author and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; and Hamdi Ulukaya, philanthropist and founder, chair, and CEO of Chobani.
Monday, May 14, at 10:15 a.m.
All media must be credentialed in advance. All requests should be made to Amanda Mott at ammott@upenn.edu no later than noon on Friday, May 11.
Credentialed media (photographers, videographers, and reporters) must arrive between 7:30 and 8:45 a.m. NOTE: Media will not be allowed entrance after 8:45 a.m. No free access to the field is permitted before or during the ceremony; two media pools will be set up.
The procession of honorary-degree recipients and about 5,000 graduates will enter Franklin Field at 9:30 a.m. The ceremony begins at 10:15 a.m.
A media platform and multi-box will be available. Additional information about Commencement is available here.
Franklin Field
3rd and Spruce streets
University of Pennsylvania
Franklin Field ticket office at the northwest entrance to Franklin Field located at 33rd and Spring streets just north of Spruce St.