# @columbia on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-04-25T22:40:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Columbia University (@columbia) — https://gondola.cc/columbia

## Caption

🎓 "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
🔹 2022 A return to in-person Commencement
🔹 2022 Commencement

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