Profiles of Excellence
In the spring of 1973, James K. Bradford graduated from Holyoke Community College. On Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Commencement, the HCC alum will do it again a full 50 years later, with honors and an associate's degree in visual art.
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'Be authentically you'
President Christina Royal offered her advice and congratulations to the Class of 2023 as she presided over her last HCC Commencement Saturday before her retirement.

'This is huge'
HCC conferred degrees and certificates upon 686 graduates from 72 Massachusetts cities and towns, states as far away as Florida and Texas, and countries including Uganda, and China.

Poetic Lessons
Latinx Studies major and student-poet Mishie Serrano recited an orginal poem as part of HCC's 76th Commencement, "Lessons from Redirections."