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E 158 ST NEWS RELEASE Elizabeth Alexander, Poet and Mellon Foundation President, to Speak at NYU’s Commencement
Apr 8, 2019 New York
Honorary Degree Recipients also include archivist Abdel Kader Haidara, Librarian of Congress Carla Diane Hayden, acting director of the National Cancer Institute Douglas R. Lowy, and playwright Terrence McNally
NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Board of Trustees Chairman William Berkley today announced the names of those to be honored at the University’s 187th Commencement Exercises, which will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Yankee Stadium.
“Each year for Commencement, we recognize men and women from across the span of human achievement with the University’s highest distinction – an honorary degree. We are especially proud of this year’s group. They are each at the forefront of their fields, and they embody NYU’s core values – the generation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge, and its use in service of humanity,” said NYU President Andrew Hamilton. “A woman whose poetry was chosen to set the tone for a new Presidential administration; a physician leading the battle against cancer; an award- winning playwright whose work has been among Broadway’s most indelible; a woman leading the preservation of the United States' cultural heritage; and a savior of his country’s patrimony. The powerful achievements of each of our honorary degree designees inspire us all to reach ever higher degrees of wisdom, empathy, and understanding.”
Elizabeth Alexander—poet, educator, cultural advocate, and president of the nation’s largest funder in arts and culture, and humanities in higher education, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will address the graduates and guests on behalf of all the degree recipients. Alexander will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa, at the ceremony.
This year’s other recipients of honorary doctorates are:
Abdel Kader Haidara—Malian researcher, manuscripts prospector, director of the private library Mamma Haidara of Timbuktu, and executive chairman of the SAVAMA- DCI NGO responsible for rescuing 400,000 historic manuscripts from destruction by jihadists—will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa.
Carla Diane Hayden—the first woman and the first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress—will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa.
Douglas R. Lowy (MED ’68)—acting director of the National Cancer Institute whose research led to the development of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine—will receive a Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa.
Terrence McNally—four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and author of numerous Broadway plays including Love! Valour! Compassion! and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune—will receive a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, honoris causa.
The “Albert Gallatin Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Society” will be presented to NYU President Emeritus John Sexton for his achievements in higher education, overseeing tremendous growth in NYU’s reach and stature; overseeing the University’s largest increase in the number of Arts and Science faculty; and serving as chief architect of the NYU Global Network University, a network of 11 international academic centers on six continents and degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai.
The “Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City” will be presented to Martin Lipton (LAW '55). A legal innovator, globally revered for his wise counsel, Chairman Emeritus of the NYU Board of Trustees, and a current Trustee of NYU, the NYU School of Law, and NYU Langone Health, Martin Lipton is being recognized for his long history of building civic institutions. From his support for expanding access to higher education to young people of all economic backgrounds to his key role in rescuing the City of New York from bankruptcy, from his contributions to rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11 to his thoughtful, dedicated leadership of crucial civic organizations, he has shown continued commitment to service as an educator and mentor, and as a devoted supporter of NYU.
The “Presidential Medal” will be presented to Yu Lizhong, Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, for his pioneering work in global education as the inaugural leader of the first Sino-US joint research university in partnership with East China Normal University.
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REMARKS FOR ALFONSO E. MORGAN-TERRERO, STUDENT SPEAKER
2019 All-University Commencement
President Hamilton, Trustees, Class of 2019, we’ve made it to the end! Thanks to four years of hard work, patience, and a lot of late night Red Bulls in the Study Lounges and Bobst.
To graduate from NYU is a remarkable achievement; we should all be incredibly proud of ourselves. This week I’ve been asking myself, “How did I get here?” It’s a good thing to ask yourself. Because the answer you arrive at may surprise you.
I’ll tell you a little bit about how I first got here. I arrived at NYU Tisch after having driven down from my family’s small home in the Bronx, in a mini-van packed to the brim with bags of clothes. My Jamaican grandparents anxiously bickered with my Dominican mother about whether or not we’d be on time, while my eldest brother tried to make the ride less stressful by blasting Hot.97 from the speakers—a kind gesture. My success during my years at Cardinal Hayes High School, just a few blocks from here, helped me, initially, to believe that I had what it took to go to NYU. This is where I could finally use the camera I could never afford growing up, where I could learn from the greatest professors in the world about how to truly become a great filmmaker.
But upon arriving, I quickly came to question whether or not I belonged. I spent my first year rooming in a suite with the sons of an Oscar-winning director, a billionaire music producer and a very successful surgeon. Most of the students at Tisch had used cameras before; some had even been on professional film sets. I knew nothing about that. Could I really have much to offer here? Was it some kind of mistake to have been accepted by a place that felt so foreign to me?
But then, one autumn afternoon, a professor challenged me with a central question: Who are you? What can you uniquely contribute to the world?
I responded by reaching into the only truth I knew: the truth found in the immigrant Caribbean communities I grew up in. I showed my classmates and professors interior domestic spaces they had never stepped into. I compelled them to come face to face with people they would otherwise never come to know or speak to…to experience their humanity. That was my unique contribution.
So again, how did I get here? I think the answer is that I, like all of us gathered here today, have always been here. The admissions committee saw us for who we were- in some cases before we saw that clearly for ourselves. And we in turn make this University what it is – after all, NYU is the direct product of what each and every one of us has to offer.
Tomorrow morning I’m flying back to the Dominican Republic, where I’ve spent the last month preparing to shoot my first feature film. It is now funny to think back to that freshman who was asking himself if he had what it took to be a filmmaker. Without NYU I might not be sitting here thinking of myself as one, even though that is what I always was.
And so it seems only fitting that I stand here, in the Bronx, where my life began, now knowing that the key to self-knowledge rests inside of me, as it does inside all of you. My hope is that all of us will carry that power of self-worth with us as we move on to our next endeavors.
Congratulations Class of 2019.