Commencement
John Legend and Janelle Monáe To Speak at Commencements
Loyola Marymount University will welcome award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter John Legend and Janelle Monáe as the keynote speakers for the 2024 commencement exercises.
SoFi Commencement Marks the Start of Post-Pandemic Life
After months of pandemic distancing, the LMU community gathers again at SoFi Stadium for Commencement Exercises for the classes of 2020 and 2021.
James Lovell
James Lovell, a captain in the U.S. Navy (ret.) and navigator on Apollo 8, delivered the commencement address at the 2014 Commencement Exercises on May 9, 2014.
A Conversation With Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin delivered the Undergraduate Commencement Address on May 11. Her “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” was the basis of the 2012 feature film “Lincoln.” She told the members of the graduating Class of 2013 that there is a direct connection between storytelling and the work of a historian. Goodwin has written several books about U.S. presidents, and her “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt” won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for history. She was interviewed her before her arrival on campus by Peter M. Warren.