Celebrate Change | Harvard GSE Class of 2022 Commencement

For the first time since 2019, graduates in their mortarboards and gowns lined up on Appian Way, preparing to step into the sunshine and across the stage to accept their diplomas. This year’s Commencement ceremony served as a powerful reminder that despite the past few months and years marked by the pandemic, social injustice, declining faith in democracy, war, and violence, the 1,016 members of the graduating class of 2022 — and their faculty — still believe in the transformative power of education.

Video by Carolina Ruggero

Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training leaders to transform education in the United States and around the globe. Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, urban education, and teacher shortages, to name just a few. Our work is shaping how people teach, learn, and lead in schools and colleges as well as in after-school programs, high-tech companies, and international organizations. The HGSE community is pushing the frontiers of education, and the effects of our entrepreneurship are improving the world.