Roughly 32,000 people attended the spring 2012 UNC commencement ceremony in Kenan Stadium, and almost 5,700 received degrees. Five of those degree recipients were senior basketball players Tyler Zeller, Justin Watts, Stewart Cooper, Patrick Crouch, and David Dupont.
Watch and listen as mayor of NYC, Michael Bloomberg, shares his experience, advice, and humor with all in attendance. He even manages a couple of good-natured digs at Duke and one at Harvard.
Additionally, the mayor was awarded an honorary doctors of law degree. Others who received honorary degrees were:
- David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, of Washington, D.C. — doctor of laws degree
- Thomas W. Lambeth ’57, retired executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, of Winston-Salem — doctor of letters degree
- Branford Marsalis, world-renowned saxophonist, of Durham –doctor of music degree
- Katharine Lee Reid, retired director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, of Chapel Hill — doctor of fine arts degree
