UNCG 2025 SPRING COMMENCEMENT
Thursday and Friday, May 8-9, at First Horizon Coliseum
Courtesy of Brian Clarey, with UNCG media
GREENSBORO, NC – At UNC Greensboro’s 2025 commencement ceremonies, students and their families will gather for the pomp and circumstance, but also to witness UNCG’s tradition of educational access on display as the University confers 2,855 degrees to this year’s graduates.
On Thursday, May 8, the doctoral and master’s ceremony will award 112 doctoral degrees and 593 Master’s degrees. Dr. Archana (Anu) Hegde will address the graduates before they cross the stage to receive their diplomas and doctoral hoods at the First Horizon Coliseum (formerly the Greensboro Coliseum).
The undergraduate commencement will honor 2,150 graduates on Friday, May 9 at First Horizon Coliseum. There, faculty will march in, the Chancellor will praise the students’ hard work, tassels will be turned and the UNCG bell will ring. These traditions will bookend a student speaker, Myieh Leggette. A Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Humanities and General Psychology, Leggette has juggled studies with work as an emergency room nurse.
CLASS OF 2025 HIGHLIGHTS
Psychology major Truly Morgan will graduate as her 95-year-old grandmother, Sarah Lewis Morgan ’50, watches from the audience. Sarah attended Woman’s College from 1946-1950.*
Jyesha McKinney, a first-generation college student who has taken advantage of educational opportunities her grandmother never had, will follow her grandmother’s example into a nursing career.*
Samy Mendoza is graduating with degrees in Human Development and & Family Studies and Communications Studies as he wraps his term as SGA vice president. Graduating early at the young age of 19, Mendoza will return to his hometown of Faison, NC, where he is accepting a position as an advisor for college-bound high school students.*
Also among this year’s Spartan graduates is the student who has been the engaging personality behind the Spiro the Spartan mascot for the last two years. He’ll trade the Spartan costume for a cap and gown and cross the stage with a marketing degree from the Bryan School of Business.*
An honorary Doctor of Letters degree will be conferred upon Connie Kotis during Thursday’s ceremony for her contributions to the creative and performing arts
WHO: Graduates, friends, and families
WHAT: UNCG 2025 Spring Commencement
WHEN: Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9 — 10 a.m. start time
. (TV entrance 9:30 am)
WHERE: First Horizon Coliseum