Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rearview shot of a group of university students standing outside on graduation day Donovan Livingston knew the stakes were high ...

Hilary Duff, Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Jackman are among the celebrities imparting their words of wisdom to 2026 college graduates Several musicians, athletes, actors and authors have been tapped ...

Every year, celebrities, businesspeople, politicians, artists, and more get asked to address a graduating class in a commencement speech. The moment, which is usually equally exciting to the honoree ...

Somehow they made it worse. We recently completed graduation season, a time for celebrating precious milestones. After nearly two years of antisemitic campus unrest, you would expect that elite ...

Kermit the Frog practices his University of Maryland commencement address in College Park on May 22. (Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post) Regarding Matt Bai’s May 25 Sunday Opinion column, ...

From the robed procession to the conferring of degrees to the keynote speech meant to inspire students to reflect on their lives and contributions to society, graduation ceremonies are a grand and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina is no stranger to celebrity guest speakers at university commencement ceremonies. Between 2020-2024, Duke ...

From getting dumped to fighting for your reproductive rights, we picked out our favorite (and one not-so favorite) speeches from this year's round of graduations. Okay, so we understand that ...

On May 31, 1969, the first student speaker to address a Wellesley College graduation took the stage. You already know her name: Hillary Rodham. The future first lady and secretary of state — who later ...

A student speaker was recently disciplined by NYU for giving an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian speech at his school’s commencement ceremony. NYU apparently rejected the idea that the address should ...

If we promise to make a better world, as graduation speakers urge us to do, it seems that we should be able to urge them to make graduation a better day. It doesn't take much to make everyone happy.

Donovan Livingston knew the stakes were high this year when he was asked to deliver a commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches. Ten years ago, he was ...