🎓 "To spend any time here at Columbia is to be confronted with your sense of duty and purpose—along with your well-earned belief in your own ability to make a difference." As we look ahead to President Lee C. Bollinger’s last Commencement as university president on May 17, take a look at these Commencement photos from the last 20 years of ceremonies. Visit our bio link for excerpts from some of President Bollinger's most memorable speeches. #Columbia2023 📷 Eileen Barroso & Chris Taggart #ColumbiaUniversity 🔹 2022 Commencement 🔹 2003 President Bollinger's first Commencement address 🔹 2006 “Devote some part of your live to making knowledge whole again” 🔹 2008 “Yours is a generation of hands-on engagement, service, and giving” 🔹 2016 President Bollinger with honorary degree recipient Ban Ki-moon 🔹 2019 “We must reassert our commitment to open inquiry, to reason, and to the sanctity of knowledge and understanding” 🔹 2021 Columbia's second virtual Commencement, due to COVID-19...