Overview
- Ford addressed Arizona State University undergraduates Monday at Mountain America Stadium before more than 14,000 students in the school’s largest class.
- He received an honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters and pressed graduates to lead, saying their generation holds the power to force change.
- The actor framed conservation as a social justice issue and called for respect for Indigenous communities and progress toward protecting 30% of land and seas by 2030.
- ASU reported 22,631 total spring graduates, including 8,373 online students, a 16% year-over-year rise that signals the university’s expanding access efforts.
- Ford tied his message to his years of carpentry before Star Wars and to decades with Conservation International, where he has served since 1991.