To the Students Graduating in 2021, This has been an academic year unlike any other. We have overcome unfamiliar challenges, and we have experienced loss and grief. Yet through it all, you have found new ways to learn, study, and create. You have affirmed Yale’s mission—showing us, with optimism and urgency, that we must fulfill our responsibilities to one another and to the world. I am grateful for your resilience, creativity, and selflessness, and I congratulate you on approaching the completion of your degree requirements. Today I write to share with you that we will be recognizing your accomplishments and graduation through in-person gatherings on or around May 24, if public health conditions permit. Our celebrations will include graduating students who are studying on campus or remotely this year; however, we regret that we will not be able to invite guests to campus.