Commencement will return with speakers from the Associated Students Organization for this year at El Camino College.

ASO President Danielle Kabboul, 20, and Student Trustee Wesley Marshall, 20, will speak at the event.

“I didn’t know that they were continuing with the student speaker, so it was exciting to have that announced,” Kabboul, a business administration major, said.

Last year, student and keynote speakers were removed from the ceremony and selected student speeches were printed in the event’s program and run online.

The speakers will make “congratulatory remarks,” a part of the ceremony introduced during last year’s event, according to the 2024 Commencement program.

Both speakers will have a couple minutes between them to make brief remarks.

“The importance of community college as a whole, specifically El Camino, that’s kind of what I’m going to touch on,” Marshall, a mechanical engineering major, said.

Commencement for ECC students graduating spring 2025 will be Friday, June 13, at 4 p.m. on Featherstone Field at Murdock Stadium.

“Hopefully it will be a good, kind of cultivating, experience for everybody that’s deciding to attend graduation this year,” Kabboul said.