Commencement
Coverage of Harvard’s annual graduation ceremonies, including speeches, profiles, and traditions.
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
2022
Somethings Old, Somethings New
Familiar preliminaries, but with many post-pandemic wrinkles for Harvard’s 371st Commencement, in-person again
Photographs from Commencement Week
A gallery of Jim Harrison’s images from the unique Commencement celebrations for the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
Election results announced
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Gloria Steinem, William Julius Wilson among those recognized—plus a world food humanitarian engaged in Ukraine
Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day
A battler against corruption in a small, threatened nation
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
Loretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Saluting the 2022 Centennial Medalists
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”
Eight graduates commissioned into the armed services at ROTC ceremony
Michelle Wu Tells the Truth
The Boston mayor shares her story at the College’s Class Day 2022.
by Jacob Sweet
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
Designing solutions to the “Great Pulling Apart”
