More than 6,100 Carolina students became Carolina alumni over the weekend.
“You aren’t leaving this place, you are actually carrying the best of it with you,” Chancellor Carol L. Folt told the graduates. “Your families, your friends, your coaches, your professors believe in you. We can’t wait to see what you will achieve.”
Our beloved University helped open your eyes to the world. Keep this perspective. Nurture it. It can help you better take the pain and create something useful — possibility even something transcendent — out of it.
We go to universities not to decide which is definitively good and what is definitively bad, but to learn how to think through our discomforts with reason, and how to reason toward fairness, given the infinite complexities of human life.
From commissioned Naval officers to future business leaders, these Tar Heels are primed to take on the biggest issues in the state, country and world.
In the days leading up to Commencement, Chancellor Carol L. Folt and University leaders celebrated with the soon-to-be graduates at smaller graduations hosted by campus groups.