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Exuberant celebrations and tears of joy punctuated one of the biggest weekends of the year at ºÚÁÏÍø as the university welcomed its spring Class of 2024 graduates. 

The ºÚÁÏÍø Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at ºÚÁÏÍø’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at 1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200, in Cleveland to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. 

Karamu Ya Wahitimu/Celebración De Los Graduados is an annual tradition celebrating all of ºÚÁÏÍø's graduating African American, Native American, Latinx, Hispanic and Multiracial undergraduate and graduate students.

ºÚÁÏÍø students who started college during the COVID-19 pandemic in Fall 2020 have shown great grit and resilience as they graduate in the class of 2024.

In total, 5,182 degrees will be conferred this spring, consisting of 1,011 associate degrees, 3,092 bachelor’s degrees, 903 master’s degrees, 164 doctoral degrees and 12 educational specialist degrees.

The Flashes Go Further Scholarship Program has awarded nearly $50 million to more than 11,000 ºÚÁÏÍø students since 2021.

This year's May 4 Commemoration remembered the fallen and recognized the spirit of activism that is part of ºÚÁÏÍø's history and the university's foundational values. 

Against the backdrop of a new generation of student activism, the ºÚÁÏÍø community gathered to reflect and remember the student protesters killed and wounded on May 4, 1970.

Commemorative landscapes and how they help produce a sense of empathy and place and foster a connection to help us learn from our past was a theme explored Friday, May 3, by ºÚÁÏÍø Professor Chris Post, Ph.D., speaker for the annual Jerry M. Lewis May 4 Lecture Series and Luncheon.

Tonight, the annual candlelight walk and vigil continues a 53-year tradition as part of this week's May 4 Commemoration.