Commencement
Coverage of Harvard’s annual graduation ceremonies, including speeches, profiles, and traditions.
Harvard Commencement 2025
Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.
How Become Harvard Commencement Speaker
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
Eric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Harvard PBK
The Broad Institute president and Wellesley poet will speak at the annual Commencement event.
Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day Speaker
The climate-change advocate and former vice president will address graduating seniors on May 29.
Harvard Portrait: Jason Luke
Harvard’s behind-the-scenes Commencement hero
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard Commencement 2019
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Harvard Commencement exercises 2019
Guidelines for this year’s May gala
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
The labor rights organizer will be honored on May 31.
Harvard Commencement
The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019.
Harvard’s 2018 Latin Orator on Hogwarts
Phoebe Lakin ’18 invokes J.K. Rowling.
Clinton, Raimondo at Commencement 2018
Radcliffe hosts Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholar’s modest roots
