The pop star will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree on May 18.
NYU is inscribe its Swiftie epoch . The university just announced that pop star Taylor Swift will deliver a manner of speaking and accept a Doctor of Fine Arts , honoris causa , at this year ’s NYU Commencement .
After a two - year hiatus due to the pandemic , NYU will sum up its graduation exercise ceremonial occasion at Yankee Stadium on May 18 , celebrating the classes of 2020 , 2021 , and 2022 . For the first metre in the university ’s account , the event will be a " double header , " grant honorary degrees to both fleet and lifelong handicap rights preach Judith Heumann .
An 11 - metre Grammy winner , Swift will be awarded her first stage and surrender a speech at the morning ceremony , which will keep 2022 graduates starting at 11 am . In the evening , Heumann will address the Classes of 2020 and 2021 starting at 6 postmortem examination .
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The many awards and honors Swift has take in so far in her life history inspired NYU to present her a Doctor of Fine Arts . Swift is the first - ever female creative person to win the Grammy for Album of the Year three times , and she is the most - awarded artist ever in the account of the American Music Awards . She also won the Briton for International Female Solo Artist of the Year in 2015 , and was Billboard Music Awards ' first - ever Woman of the Decade recipient .
NYU President Andrew Hamilton is welcome the three graduating classes with pollyannaish enthusiasm . " Since 2019 , we have been deprived of Commencement ’s festive , communal joyousness , and its absence has been keenly felt , " said President Hamilton . " Few groups of graduates are more worth of a celebration than these class : their pursuit of their studies disrupt , isolate by a intimidating pandemic , these classes—2022 , 2021 , and 2020 — have pick out themselves with their guts , grace , and patience . We reconvene at Yankee Stadium with a renew good sense of grasp for the turn of celebrating together in person , a recognition of our graduates ' enormous accomplishment , and a respect for their character and perseverance . "
