Congratulations Class of 2021! #Wellesley2021

Watch the Class of 2021 Commencement Ceremony here!

The Ceremony website also includes videos for the Baccalaureate Celebration, the Baccalaureate Concert, the Sigma Xi Nomination Ceremony, and the Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony, and a Thank You Video Playlist the class of 2021. 

Read more about the Class of 2021 Commencement Speaker – Massachusetts State Rep. Liz Miranda ’02

This year's senior speaker was Lia James '21. You can read her speech here. 

President Dr. Paula A. Johnson's address to the 2021 graduating class can be found here.

Every year during Commencement, the Pinanski Teaching Award is given to as many as three members of the faculty, preferably one in each of the College's three academic areas: the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. The Prize is meant to recognize some particular strength, some style or method or course, or some other describable event that has been especially successful.

This year's recipients were: 

• Rebecca Belisle, Physics
• Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Africana Studies
• Alice T. Friedman, Art

You can read more about them here.