Commencement Exercises Celebrate Newest Alumni

View from stage of crowd at commencement
April 18, 2018

St. John’s University’s 148th academic year will culminate in annual Commencement ceremonies featuring speakers representing the Church, academia, law, education, the sciences, the US military, and business.

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises

Saturday, May 19; 10 a.m.; Great Lawn, Staten Island Campus
Lt. General Michael A. Rocco ’83CBA, Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, United States Marine Corps

Sunday, May 20; 10 a.m.; Great Lawn, Queens Campus
His Eminence Luis Antonio Gokim Cardinal Tagle, D.D., S.Th.D, Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila

Graduate Commencement Exercises

Queens Campus

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Monday, May 14; 6 p.m.; Carnesecca Arena
S. William (Sandy) Zito, Ph.D. ’66P, Senior Associate Dean for Assessment and Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University

The School of Education

Tuesday, May 15; 6 p.m.; Carnesecca Arena
Reginald Landeau, Jr. ’12Ed.D., Master Principal, George J. Ryan Middle School 216, Fresh Meadows, NY; Chief Executive Officer of Inspire Leadership, LLC; and Adjunct Professor, St. John’s University

The Peter J. Tobin College of Business

Wednesday, May 16; 6 p.m.; Carnesecca Arena
Pascal Desroches ’86CBA, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and member of St. John’s University Board of Governors

St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Thursday, May 17; 6 p.m.; Carnesecca Arena
Recipient of the Doctor of Commercial Science: Richard Charles Nerod ’59C, Retired Group Executive Vice President, International Operations, General Motors Corporation
Ceremony Speaker: Julie B. Schnur ’00G, ’03Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy; Member, Center for Behavioral Oncology; and Co-Director, Integrative Behavioral Medicine Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

College of Professional Studies

Friday, May 18; 5 p.m.; Carnesecca Arena
Stephen J. Gold ’82SVC, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Stephen J. Gold Advisors, LLC, and member of the St. John’s University College of Professional Studies Advisory Board

St. John’s School of Law

Sunday, June 3; Noon; Carnesecca Arena, Queens Campus
Hon. Preet Bharara, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU School
of Law, and Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Rome

Sunday, June 10; 6 p.m.; Courtyard, Rome Campus
Irena Loloci ’09G, Policy and Programme Consultant, United Nations World Food Programme

For more information, please visit stjohns.edu/commencement.