2019
Commencement Speaker: Robert Lewis, Jr., chief executive officer of The BASE
2018
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: His Excellency, Most. Rev. Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Honorary Degree Recipients: John Agresto, Ph.D., the former president of St. John’s College, and Judith Beck, Ph.D. co-founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
2017
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: John L. Allen, Jr., editor of Crux, and senior Vatican analyst for CNN.
Honorary Degree Recipients: Mary Lou Jennings, executive director of the Sister Thea Bowman Black Catholic Educational Foundation; Roberta Schaefer, Ph.D., founder and first executive director of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau.
2016
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Dr. Carolyn Woo, CEO of Catholic Relief Services.
Honorary Degree Recipients: Dr. James O'Connell, founding physician, and now president, of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Dr. Fred Bayon '65, a member of the University's Board of Trustees for 31 years; and Michael Tsotsis '71, a member of the University's Board of Trustees for 21 years.
2015
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Major General Robert Catalanotti (Ret.) ’80
Honorary Degree Recipient: Terrence W. Macy ‘70, Ph.D. former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS)
2014
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Attorney and humanitarian Frances X. Hogan
Honorary Degree Recipients: Janice “Jan” L. Fuller P’92 and Mark W. Fuller P’92, the Very Reverend Benoît Grière, A.A, Dr. Paul Carpentier, MD, CFCMC ’82
2013
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Richard DesLauriers ’82, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Division
Honorary Degree Recipients: Stephen F. Knott '79, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College; Raymond Lauring, friend and supporter of Assumption University, retired president of Lauring Construction
2012
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Brian Kelly ’83; head football coach for the University of Notre Dame
Honorary Degree Recipients: The Most Rev. Robert J. McManus, bishop of Worcester; Maurice “Moe” Boisvert ’66, president of Youth Opportunities Upheld Inc. (YOU Inc.); and James Welu, director emeritus of Worcester Art Museum
2011
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Rwandan Genocide Survivor and AuthorImmaculée Ilibagiza
Honorary Degree Recipients: Medical doctor, missionary and director of the NPH St. Damien Hospital in Haiti, Fr. Richard Frechette, C.P., D.O. ’74; Thomas Walsh, M.D. ’74, researcher, physician and director of Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program; Susan Woodbury, chair of the board of the George I. Alden Trust
2010
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Richard Lamoureux, A.A. ‘64, superior general of the Assumptionists
Honorary Degree Recipients: Francis R. Carroll, chairman and chief executive officer of the Small Business Service Bureau; civic leaders Donald D’Amour ’64 and Michele D’Amour
2009
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient: Anne Lynam Goddard, president and CEO of the Christian Children's Fund
Honorary Degree Recipients: Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., the John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center; Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., professor of government at Georgetown University