Taylor University will confer degrees on 405 students during its 2025 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 24.
The Commencement Ceremony is an event that showcases the institution’s academic rigor with its long-standing Christian traditions.
The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Kesler Student Activities Center. Seating will be available starting at 8:30 a.m., and tickets are not required for entry according to the university website. The university confirmed there will be ample seating for all graduates and their guests.
This year’s class is the first to have entered Taylor alongside President D. Michael Lindsay, who began his presidency in 2021.
“I have a particular affinity to the class of 2025,” Lindsay said. “We entered Taylor together and we journeyed together over the past four years. In this very special season, I wish the class the very best, hopes and prayers for the future, and I give thanks to the Lord for the work He has done in and through them.”
Lindsay will deliver the commencement address, and will be joined by Senior Afia Asamoah.
Senior Afia Asamoah, a biology investigations and applications major with a chemistry minor from Kumasi, Ghana, will deliver the senior address. Asamoah plans to reflect on the meaning of a life well lived. Shehopes to draw connections between personal growth and collective experience through poetry that she has written specially for the event.
According to Assistant Registrar Vince Small, the graduating class includes 220 women and 185 men. Twenty-one students will receive master of arts degrees and 381 are earning bachelor’s degrees: 188 bachelors of science, 180 bachelors of arts, 13 bachelors of fine arts and three bachelors of music.
Thirty-four students have completed more than one major.
The graduates represent 27 U.S. states and 18 foreign countries, including Ghana, India, Germany, the Philippines and Haiti, underscoring Taylor’s expanding global reach.
Academic achievement remains a hallmark of Taylor’s mission. Of the baccalaureate recipients, 248 are graduating with honors, including 82 summa cum laude, 104 magna cum laude and 62 cum laude distinctions. Eighteen students are on track to graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The ceremony will also feature the conferral of honorary degrees on Bishop Oscar M. Muriu (Doctor of Divinity), Daphna L. Tobey (Doctor of Business) and Dr. Carlos A. Campo (Doctor of Humane Letters). They will be recognized for their Christian leadership and public impact.
Graduates will receive Bibles and servant towels during the ceremony, rituals that symbolize Taylor’s dual commitments to spiritual grounding and servant leadership. The event will conclude with a choral benediction and recessional featuring Ode to Joy and Back Home Again in Indiana.
The year ending ceremony marks the addition of the Class of 2025 to the university’s alumni network, now totaling more than 27,000 worldwide.
For full details and livestream access, visit www.taylor.edu/events/commencement/
