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
2017
Harvard PBK literary exercises will feature Sherry Turkle and Mark Doty
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony kicks off Commencement week on May 23.
Harvard President Drew Faust Vietnam
Drew Faust, in Ho Chi Minh City, on the Civil War and the Vietnam War
Mark Zuckerberg to speak Harvard Commencement
The University announces Facebook’s CEO as its headliner for May 25.
Harvard Commencement exercises
Guidelines for the gala
2016
News briefs: summer 2016
Chao Center, a Law School alumnus as vice-presidential nominee, sexual-assault lexicon, Gen Ed transition, and more
Harvard honorary-degree recipients of 2016
The honorands of 2016
Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
Harvard Commencement humor
Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement
Harvard 365th Commencement highlights
A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more
Harvard Medalists of 2016
For “extraordinary service to the University”
