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Sal Khan to receive honorary degree from Johns Hopkins
The Khan Academy founder is also set to deliver the 2025 commencement address on May 22.
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Pranavi Sharma - Mon, 19, May 2025
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Sal Khan. / Forbes
Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, will receive an honorary degree from Johns Hopkins University during its 2025 Commencement ceremony on May 22.
Khan is one of four recipients of this year’s honorary degrees, alongside AFRO publisher Toni Draper, JHU board chair Lou Forster, and Hopkins astrophysicist and data scientist Alex Szalay.
"This year's honorary degree recipients have all had transformational impacts—on how we learn, on the city of Baltimore, on our understanding of our universe, and on the trajectory of the university itself," JHU President Ron Daniels said in a statement. "We are delighted to bestow Johns Hopkins' highest honor on these four people who share our fundamental interest in cultivating a capacity for learning, on our campuses, in Baltimore, and around the world."
Khan is widely credited with changing how education is delivered. He started Khan Academy, a nonprofit platform offering free online instructional content, after tutoring his 12-year-old cousin in math in 2004.
His videos gained traction on YouTube, and by 2009, he left his day job to focus on the venture full-time. Today, Khan Academy’s educational content is available in more than 50 languages and has reached over 170 million users across more than 190 countries.
The university’s commencement ceremony will take place at Homewood Field in Baltimore.
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