Photo Gallery: Waving goodbye to Ohio State’s Class of ’25
About 10,000 graduating Buckeyes attended Sunday's spring commencement at Ohio Stadium, weathering the rain to receive their diplomas. Universit…
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Charles Bolden Jr. and university speakers address the spring 2025 graduating class
Despite the rain, almost 10,000 Buckeyes attended the 439th commencement ceremony at Ohio State. As graduates and spectators covered themselves …
Commencement Speaker Charles Bolden Jr. gives speech on making history, looking towards the future
While history is crucial, the community that is being built for the future of democracy is just as essential, according to Charles Bolden Jr.’s com…
University graduation ceremony honoring students of color reshapes itself amid DEI rollbacks
Since the 1990s, Ohio State has annually hosted the Afrikan American Farewell Ceremony to honor graduates of color. And if not for the National …
Who is Charles Bolden Jr.? A behind-the-scenes look at this spring’s commencement speaker
Charles Bolden Jr. — U.S. Marine major general, former NASA administrator and the spring 2025 commencement speaker — hopes to impart two lessons to…
Behind the scenes of Chris Pan’s viral commencement speech: The nomination process, Ohio State’s speaker history and who really made the call
As the class of 2024 sat in the ‘Shoe in May, there were dozens of commencement speakers they could have heard from, each one having been nominated to …
Stephanie Hightower dares Buckeyes to be ‘unstoppable’ at autumn 2024 commencement
More than 2,400 graduates and their families gathered in the Schottenstein Center Sunday afternoon for Ohio State’s autumn 2024 commencement ceremo…
President Ted Carter Jr., USG President Bobby McAlpine speak at 2024 Convocation ceremony
Ohio State welcomed its freshman class of Buckeyes — estimated to make up at least 9,000 students as the largest class in the university’s history …
Coroner’s office identifies individual who died at Sunday’s commencement ceremony, says incident is being investigated as death by suicide
A version of this story was published Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. and has since been updated to account for new information from the coroner’s office. …
One person dead after falling from the Bell Tower side of the Shoe Sunday
One person is dead after falling from the Bell Tower side of the Shoe Sunday around 12:20 p.m., Ohio State officials confirmed. Near the southea…