WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024
Virtual University Convocation Program
WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers.
WHEN: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 3 p.m
WHERE: The Convocation ceremony will take place virtually and will be streamed starting at 3 p.m. It can be viewed here once it begins.
WHO: NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek will preside over the ceremony.
Keynoting the ceremony is Gabrielle Rejouis, who graduated from NJIT in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. She was an Albert Dorman Honors Scholar, a 2015 College of Science and Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Student award recipient, and a 2019 Rising Star Alumna award recipient. Gabrielle received her J.D. from Georgetown with a Certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies in 2018. After law school, she worked at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law where she advocated for civil rights protections in tech policy and worker privacy protections. Gabrielle currently works at Color of Change as a senior policy manager on the Media, Culture, and Economic Justice team. She develops campaigns to challenge anticompetitive practices and to ensure effective regulation of the tech industry.
*All First-Year Students must register to participate.