View commencement programs from the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) from 1992 to 2006 and from the College of Human Ecology from 1992 to 2004, as well as College of Design commencement programs from 2007 to the present. Please note, commencement programs list candidates for degrees who participated in the commencement ceremony of that year. They are not the official degree record.
To access commencement programs from 1877 to 1991 please visit the University's Digital Conservancy.
Commencement Programs 1992–Present
2007
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2007
Location: Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Speaker: Richard Koshalek
Item of note: 2007 marks the first class to graduate from the College of Design.
2008
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Location: Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Speaker: Kaywin Feldman, Director and President, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2009
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009
Location: Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Speaker: Jeremy Kalin, State Representative
2010
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Location: Northrop Memorial Auditorium
Speaker: Hani S. Ayad, AIA
2011
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2011
Location: Mariucci Arena
Speaker: Mauro Porcini, Head of Global Design, 3M, Consumer and Office Business Worldwide
2012
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012
Location: Mariucci Arena
Speaker: John Cary (BA Arch ’99)
2013
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Location: Mariucci Arena
Speaker: Cathy ten Broeke
2014
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: R.T. Rybak, Mayor of Minneapolis, 2002 to 2013
2015
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2015
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: Doug Powell, Design Principal, IBM Design
2016
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: Eric Kaler, President, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
2017
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2017
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: David A. Rubin, Founding Principal of Land Collective
2018
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2018
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speakers: Nancy Skolos, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design; Thomas Wedell, Senior Critic, Rhode Island School of Design
2019
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: Tamara Eagle Bull, FAIA, NCARB, AICAE, President, Encompass Architects, PC
Macebearer: John Cuningham, Founder, Cuningham Group
2020
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2020
Location: Virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
Speaker: Nila R. Leiserowitz, FASID, FIID, (B.S. ’75, Interior Design) Former Regional Managing Principal, Gensler
Macebearer: Linda Mona, (B.S. ’67, Home Ec Ed), Founder, Creative Environments
2021
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Location: Virtual
Speaker: Melvin Carter, Mayor of St. Paul
2022
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Location: Northrop Auditorium
Speaker: Ambreen Tariq, the author of Fatima’s Great Outdoors and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping, a social media initiative that advocates for greater diversity, equity, access, and justice in the outdoors.
Macebearer: William Pedersen, FAIA, FAAR (B.S. ’61, Architecture)
