UNC Asheville 2015 Graduates

May 9 commencement. Photo: Urban News
With 465 graduates receiving degrees, UNC Asheville celebrated the May 9, 2015 commencement. UNC Asheville’s class of 2015 included 257 December graduates and 34 August graduates, for a total of 756.
The May 9 commencement, the first led by Chancellor Mary K. Grant, featured an address by novelist Wiley Cash, a graduate of the class of 2000. Cash will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, as will Michell Hicks, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
