The University of Utah’s Class of 2019 includes 8,465 graduates — with more than 4,260 men, 4,086 women and 114 nonbinary and unidentified students. They come from all 50 states and 68 countries. They range from 18 years old to 72. They received degrees in communication and economics, and biology and accounting. And psychology. And engineering. And so on.
“Find a way to bring us together,” keynote speaker the Rev. France A. Davis said at the university’s commencement ceremony Thursday night. Davis said nobody — “absolutely nobody" — had done that before, and in spite of growing polarization in the U.