The 2025 Spring Commencement will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 10 at Kenan Stadium.
Mia Hamm '94, a world-renowned soccer player, will deliver the commencement address. The two-time Olympic gold medalist helped lead the Tar Heels to NCAA championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993. Read more about Hamm.
More details about the ceremony will be announced at a later date.
The Class of 2024 excelled in the classroom, served their community, conducted research, won national championships and made memories that will last a lifetime.
After years of hard work, late nights and a lot of determination in the face of a pandemic, they’ve made lasting impacts at Carolina and left their heelprints on campus.
Carolina celebrates the Class of 2024 under the lightsInterim Chancellor Lee H. Roberts presided over the May 11 ceremony at Kenan Stadium that celebrated the roughly 4,265 undergraduates, 1,530 master’s degree students and 884 doctoral students.
Meet the graduatesGet to know our Class of 2024 and learn more about their paths to Commencement and how they excelled at Carolina.
Graduates celebrate their achievementsAhead of Carolina's Spring Commencement Saturday evening, our graduating students celebrated their years of hard work and diligence at graduations across campus.
View the 2024 Spring Commencement Program
Michelle Dorrance is a world-renowned dancer and choreographer. A MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, she has been described by The New Yorker as “one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today.”
Deitre Epps is a longtime champion of pursuing equity and community well-being through education, training and technical assistance for health, human services and education leaders. Epps is founder and CEO of R.A.C.E. (Results Achieved through Community Engagement) for Equity, a Durham-based organization that helps nonprofits, government agencies and other groups center equity in their work and strengthen their leadership capacity and cultural responsiveness.
A highly esteemed North Carolinian, Howard Lee has rendered outstanding service to the state and this University in numerous ways over more than six decades. The son of a Georgia sharecropper, Lee graduated from Fort Valley State College before enrolling as a graduate student at Carolina, where he earned a Master of Social Work in 1966. Three years later, he was elected mayor of Chapel Hill, becoming the first African American to be elected mayor of a majority-white Southern city since Reconstruction.
Richard Y. Stevens is an attorney, a distinguished public servant and a triple alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill who has served the state and university in numerous ways. During his five terms as a North Carolina State Senator, Stevens was the senior budget leader under both Republican and Democratic majorities. He worked across the aisle to ensure effective governance and fought to preserve funding for higher education during the Great Recession.