Celebrating Your Honors Graduation

It is my pleasure to congratulate you, our University Honors Graduates, as we celebrate your grand accomplishment of BYU Graduation this week! You have demonstrated exceptional commitment to educational engagement, resulting in a broad undergraduate experience and an enhanced ability to create new knowledge via your Honors thesis. I could not be more proud of you. We would all be remiss not to acknowledge the contributions of your family, friends and mentors. I hope you will take the time to thank them individually.

It is sad that conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic do not allow us to meet and celebrate in person; it is a highlight each year for all of us in Honors to see our graduates and their guests, and to reflect on the satisfaction we feel seeing such capable graduates heading out into the world. However, the current situation makes it even more clear to me that the world needs people like you: Honors-educated graduates who are able to think about complex issues, capable of engaging with a diversity of people, and who are not afraid to learn new things. We look to you to lead in your homes, communities and disciplines, and to do all of this with faith, abiding in the love of our God and by the inspiration of the Spirit. Do not hesitate to move forward in ways that will impact the world for good. May God bless you in your next grand adventure.

Congratulations!
Dr. Spencer P. Magleby