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Mark Thompson, president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company, will address the University’s Graduate Commencement on Saturday, May 16, at 1 p.m. He will receive a doctor of laws degree, too.
The SHU class of 2015 includes 1,026 undergraduates who will have earned associate and bachelor’s degrees and 907 graduate students who will have earned master’s degrees, professional certificates and doctorates. The ceremonies for both graduate and undergraduate students will take place at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport.
He was appointed to the U.S.Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become secretary of state. He left the Senate in 1995 as the Senate majority leader, a position he had held since January 1989. Mitchell received an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
As President Clinton's envoy he helped negotiate the Belfast Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998. For his service, he received numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given by the U.S. government; the Philadelphia Liberty Medal; the Truman Institute Peace Prize; and the United Nations (UNESCO) Peace Prize.
Thompson became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company in November 2012.
In the autumn of 2012, Thompson was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford. He is currently developing the lectures he gave at Oxford into a book that will be published in 2015.
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