05/28/2026
"The class of 2026 has shown that opportunity can be expanded even in times of disruption—that adult learners, working professionals, caregivers, and students from every corner of the globe can thrive in a learning environment that is flexible, rigorous, and deeply human, even as technology accelerates around us." — Nancy Coleman, Dean, Harvard Division of Continuing Education and University Extension
"Think about newly discovered academic passions and expository arguments you crafted–and will continue to craft–with sound logic, reason, diligent fact checking, and evidence. Skills garnered to support your career, future academic study, and, most importantly, I hope with all my heart, engaged citizenship. — Suzanne Spreadbury, Dean of Harvard Extension School Academic Programs
"We carry evidence. Evidence that learning can coexist with responsibility. That ambition can be patient. Evidence that effort compounds even when no one is watching. And that you can redesign your path, without disregarding your past." — Theo Rowley, ALM Industrial-Organizational Psychology '26
"The most remarkable part of your Harvard journey is what will happen after commencement. Because what you have learnt and the bonds you have created here will endure and shape also your new chapters wherever you will find yourselves in life." — Martina Colombo, CSS '04, Katie Y.F. Yang Prize 2004
