Commencement on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan is Friday and Saturday.

The class of 2015 will be the 148th to graduate from K-State since the first class graduated in 1867.

Ceremonies begin Friday ( May 15 ) with commencement for the Graduate School at 1 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a native Kansan and former U.S. Senator for nearly two decades will be the commencement speaker and receive an honorary doctorate from Kansas State University, the 129th person to receive the honor.

Commencement for the College of Veterinary Medicine will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday in McCain Auditorium. Dan Thomson, Jones professor of production medicine and epidemiology and director of the Beef Cattle Institute, will deliver the commencement address.

Commencement activities on Saturday, May 16 will range from the College of Arts and Sciences at 8:30 a.m. in Bramlage Coliseum to the College of Engineering at 6:30 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum.

Other ceremonies include the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at 10 a.m. in McCain Auditorium, and in Bramlage Coliseum the College of Education, 11 a.m.,  College of Business Administration, 12:30 p.m. , College of Agriculture, 2:30 p.m., and the College of Human Ecology at 4:30 p.m.