"My humanity is defined by yours.” Elie Wiesel, Dartmouth Commencement, 2006 In 1990, as I sat at my college graduation in my pale blue cap and gown, not listening to the commencement speaker, I never ...

Last year was a tumultuous year for commencement speakers. Some speeches were canceled while others were relocated. There were walkouts, protests and sharp repercussions. On May 11, Harrison Butker, ...

I love to watch commencement speeches. As a speechwriter in my former life, I know there’s no harder job than holding students’ and parents’ attention when they really just want that degree. You’ve ...

This graduation season, the biggest names to deliver commencement addresses to Maryland institutions came from the heights of government and puppeteering.

Dylan Dreyer shared her best professional and life advice during a rousing commencement speech at her alma mater, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (formerly Cook College), in ...

ST. LOUIS — Rain or shine, 3,600 graduates at WashU earned their degrees Monday with big crowds and with a big star at Francis Olympic Field. "We had 17,000 people here, our largest commencement ever ...

Sarah Jessica Parker has been named this year’s Northwestern University commencement speaker. She’s set to address the class of 2026 this spring.

It’s commencement season, and this month, speakers sent the graduates of Maryland’s colleges and universities off to the rest of their lives with these and other necessarily pithy words of wisdom, ...

The story was updated to correct an inaccuracy. Indiana University Bloomington will award degrees to 11,019 undergraduate and graduate students on May 9 and 10, the university’s largest graduating ...