In BREAKING NEWS, President Obama will be speaking at Rutgers commencement. As a Rutgers Alum, this is CRAZY. Why couldn’t this happen a few years ago when I was graduating!
VIA NJ.com:
PISCATAWAY â President Barack Obama will speak at Rutgers University’s 250th anniversary commencement, the White House announced Thursday.
The announcement comes more than two years after Rutgers President Robert Barchi wrote to Obama asking him to speak to the graduating class. This year’s graduation ceremony is on May 15 at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway.
“Rutgers University is one of the oldest universities in the country with a long and distinguished history of advancing research and preparing students with the skills they need to succeed in the new economy,” White House spokesman Keith Maley said in a statement announcing the trip.
Barchi wrote to Obama in the fall of 2013, saying he couldn’t imagine a more inspirational commencement speaker. Obama speaks at only a few commencement ceremonies each year and Rutgers has no record of a sitting U.S. president speaking at its graduation, according to the university.
