All undergraduates at St. Edmund Hall received a personal tutor.
Younger people are also volunteering more, he told the 443 undergraduate and 49 graduate students receiving degrees on the New London campus.
At the school's Bronx campus on May 21, 1,450 undergraduates and 1,350 graduate students received degrees.
Minority students make up about a quarter of most classes, and roughly half the school's 4,700 undergraduates receive financial aid, according to the university.
Each year, five graduate students and five undergraduates receive awards of $2,500 each.
An undergraduate who nervously questioned one of his views in an essay received the marginal comment "No offence is possible.
Juilliard now "has no equal in the world," he told the 107 undergraduate and 106 graduate students receiving their degrees.
Nearly half the 14.7 million undergraduates at two- and four-year institutions never receive degrees.
Some 330 undergraduate and graduate students received degrees today at Sarah Lawrence's 70th commencement exercises.
Annually more than six hundred undergraduates and one hundred graduate students receive such supports.