President Timothy L. Farnes, Young Men General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will address 3,31 graduates at Brigham Young University-Idaho’s 2025 Fall Semester Commencement on Thursday, December 18, 2025. 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 2,376 bachelor’s degrees and 1,027 associate degrees. Of the graduates, 1,837 are women, and 1,494 are men. Campus-based students make up 2,176 of this semester’s graduates, while 1,628 of the graduates are online students served by BYU-Pathway Worldwide.
President Timothy L. Farnes was sustained as Young Men General President on April 5, 2025. He began serving on August 1, 2025.
His past Church assignments have included Area Seventy, president of the Brazil São Paulo North Mission, stake president, counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, counselor in a bishopric, and full-time missionary in the Brazil Porto Alegre Mission.
President Farnes studied economics at Brigham Young University and later founded multiple companies in several industries, as well as a humanitarian nonprofit doing work in Ghana, Africa.
Timothy Lowell Farnes was born on June 29, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland. He and his wife, Linsey, have five children.
No tickets are needed to attend Commencement. Graduates, parents, and guests can find more information about the 2025 Fall Semester graduation events at byui.edu/graduation.