Elder Clark G. Gilbert, General Authority Seventy and Commissioner of the Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will address 3,090 graduates at Brigham Young University-Idaho’s 2024 Fall Semester Commencement on Thursday, December 19, 2024. The event will be held at 12:45 p.m. in the BYU-Idaho Center and streamed live at byui.edu/live/video.
The university will award 2,325 bachelor’s degrees and 875 associate degrees. Of the graduates, 1,737 are women, and 1,353 are men. Campus-based students make up 1,694 of this semester’s graduates, while 1,396 of the graduates are online students, and 1,484 of those graduating started their college career as BYU-Pathway Worldwide students.
Elder Gilbert was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on April 3, 2021. He currently serves as the Commissioner of the Church Educational System. At the time of his call, he had been serving as an Area Seventy in the Utah Area.
Elder Gilbert received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in Asian studies from Stanford University, and a doctorate from Harvard University. He worked as a professor of entrepreneurial management at Harvard University. He was later the chief executive officer of the Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media. In 2015, he became president of BYU–Idaho and was subsequently appointed as the inaugural president of BYU–Pathway Worldwide in 2017.
Elder Gilbert and his wife Christine married in 1994 and are the parents of eight children and one grandchild.
No tickets are needed to attend Commencement. Graduates, parents, and guests can find more information about the 2024 Fall Semester graduation events at byui.edu/graduation.