Commencement


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker

The basketball player and writer will address Harvard seniors on May 28.

by Nina Pasquini

2025

Commencement and Alumni Events

Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025

by Nell Porter-Brown

News in Brief

Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more

Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker

Physician and author will address the graduation exercises May 29.

by John S. Rosenberg

2024

Widsom of the Aged

Alumni perspectives on Harvard in crisis, and signs of a changed community

by Primus VI

The Week’s Words

Commencement rhetoric on threats to higher education, melding divergent views, doing good, and combating the loss of trust

Commencement Confetti

Seniors’ work plans, Sasha stylin’, reunion sonnet, and more

Commencement 372 7/8

Harvard’s tumultuous year ends in modified festival rites, amid passionate protests.

by John S. Rosenberg

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2024 honorary degree recipients

Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance

Protest interruptions and a call to do “the right thing” 

by Lydialyle Gibson