I wish our university would stop doing separate graduations for each college and have one large ceremony like most schools. It would be nice if when my graduation comes around in a couple years I graduate with my entire school, not just the thousand or so people in my (rather arbitrary) "college."
We have the size and academic reputation to pull large and important commencement speakers, but the division prevents this from happening. And because all the colleges, except the School of Music and College of Education, are very broad in scope, most students don't get the benefit of having someone in their field speaking at their graduation either. It also puts some double majors in an awkward situation of having to choose one to attend, and not seeing their friends in other academic colleges get recognized.
For example, the speaker at the Fine and Applied Arts Commencement (which is a weird mix of Communications, Sustainable Development, Design, Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts, and Military Science) is a local news anchor. I don't know what North Carolina is like, but growing up in Cleveland a local anchorman visited my elementary school. And while I'm sure his speech will be of interest to the 1/10th of the room that are journalism majors, it's not anything I would tell my friends, or anyone else, about.