Taylor Swift will receive an honorary degree from New York University and address graduates during a commencement ceremony in May 2022.
The singer will receive a Doctor of Fine Arts and speak at NYU’s morning commencement event on May 18 at Yankee Stadium. This will be her first degree, since the former teen star was headlining tours the same time she was graduating high school.
The upcoming celebration will honour the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 following the pandemic.
“I cannot overstate how thrilled I am to be coming together in person with graduates, parents, faculty, and honorees for NYU’s Commencement. Since 2019, we have been deprived of Commencement’s festive, communal joy, and its absence has been keenly felt,” says NYU president Andrew Hamilton in a press release. “Few groups of graduates are more deserving of a celebration than these classes: their pursuit of their studies disrupted, isolated by a daunting pandemic, these classes — 2022, 2021, and 2020 — have distinguished themselves with their grit, grace, and forbearance. We reconvene at Yankee Stadium with a renewed sense of appreciation for the act of celebrating together in person, a recognition of our graduates’ enormous achievements, and a respect for their character and perseverance.”
Before accepting her honorary degree, Swift will compete for album of the year at the Grammys happening April 3. Evermore is nominated after Swift’s Folklore became her third career album of the year winner last year.
NO PROBLEMS TODAY JUST CHAMPAGNE🥂 I wanted to share this video with you from when @aaron_dessner and I were doing our fittings for the video and there was a piano, so ofc this happened. SO stoked evermore has been honored like this. Congrats to all our fellow nominees #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/e50IShhoe6
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 23, 2021
Photo credit: via Instagram
