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
2023
Larry Wilmore Named College Class Day Speaker
Writer, television producer, comedian, and actor challenges the racial and political status quo.
Larry Bacow’s Parting Push
Allston, higher-education outreach, and free speech make for a busy conclusion to the twenty-ninth president’s Mass Hall tenure.
News in Brief
Commencement speakers, women's hockey investigation, visual-culture curator, and more
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Eating Around Cambridge
A selection of celebratory spots
Commencement Celebrity: Tom Hanks to Address Graduates
The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
Global Health Pioneer Ophelia Dahl to Receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
Guest speakers for Commencement 2023 Literary Exercises
2022
Learners, Grizzled and Downy
An affecting reunion, and Houghton Library accessible to all
by Primus VI
Conferring and Confirming
Harvard’s 371st Commencement, and a celebration for the classes of 2020-2021
