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"commencement" Definitions
  1. (formal) beginning
  2. (North American English) a ceremony at which students receive their academic degrees or diplomas synonym graduationTopics Educationc2

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Just listen to her commencement speech at Wellesley in 1969, where she was selected as the first-ever student commencement speaker.
Organizers of last year's black commencement said it was open to all graduating students, as was Harvard's official commencement, which was held two days later.
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton, whose first-ever student commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969 kicked off her storied career, will be the college's 2017 commencement speaker.
Washington (CNN)Later this month, President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver the Liberty University commencement address, continuing a tradition of presidential commencement addresses spanning back decades.
Billy Joel has played Madison Square Garden a hundred and six times and delivered eight commencement speeches, but he's never given a commencement speech at the Garden.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the commencement address at his son's ninth-grade graduation last month, bestowing advice that ran counter to many typical commencement speeches.
Cover image: ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MAY 19: Robert F. Smith gives the commencement address during the Morehouse College 135th Commencement at Morehouse College on May 19, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
While commencement was postponed after a student-led petition not to have the ceremony online garnered more than 1,000 signatures, the date and structure of the commencement are still up in the air.
A few hours after the new "Harvard University Black Commencement" for the graduate schools, including the prestigious law, divinity, business, government and medical schools, about 120 students attended the third annual "Latinx" commencement.
Q: You once gave a commencement speech about life lessons.
Commencement ceremonies are wrapping up for the class of 2016.
He repeated the comments at another commencement ceremony on Sunday.
Now commencement speakers are also expected to give some advice.
GUTFELD: Still to come, college commencement speakers are mostly liberal.
President Obama was present and had delivered the commencement speech.
But most were not about to leave their commencement ceremony.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is speaking at Harvard's commencement Thursday.
That's what she said in a commencement address at Yale.
It was held two days before the university's traditional commencement.
That evolution was most apparent in her Wellesley commencement speech.
Carter's commencement focused on Christianity, human rights, equality and justice.
In 2014, John Lewis delivered the commencement address at Emory.
He last spoke at the school's commencement ceremonies in 2012.
Yellen was speaking at a University of Baltimore commencement ceremony.
Weeks later, President Roosevelt gave a commencement address in Virginia.
" - Danielle, 24 "Boy next to me threw up during commencement.
Obama said during a 2015 commencement address at Tuskegee University.
Trump's first commencement speech as president was at Liberty University.
In a commencement address in New York on Wednesday, Mrs.
But it's not one of the hallmarks of commencement addresses.
On Wednesday, it announced commencement of operations at six sites.
Its next commencement ceremony will take place May 26, 85033.
Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey delivered the commencement address at Smith College.
In 2008, Garland, who served on the committee that helped select Harvard's commencement speaker that year, was instrumental in bringing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to his alma mater to deliver her viral commencement address.
Cory Booker The junior New Jersey senator will give the commencement speech at Franklin & Marshall College on May 163 and is set to speak on May 216 at Kean University's commencement in Newark, New Jersey.
The first was this dad-tastic video announcing the commencement address that Zuckerberg filmed with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who gave the commencement address when Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, graduated from Harvard 10 years ago.
She gave the commencement speech at Northwestern's graduation ceremony in 2015.
AND FINALLY ... Helping out Ever wanted to be a commencement speaker?
Brown presented them with the degrees Sunday at its 250th commencement.
Harvard held its first Black Commencement ceremony on May 23, 2017.
Every year around this time, inspirational commencement speeches fill our feeds.
They traced the infection back to a commencement event, Sabeti said.
Last week, Obama spoke at Howard University's commencement address in Washington.
He last spoke at the Air Force academy commencement in 2012.
I&aposm going to be talking about pot and commencement speaking.
GUTFELD: This is exactly what you expect in a commencement address.
So, you also had graduation and commencement right around the corner.
Bob Hope was the commencement speaker at Georgetown University that year.
Trump was set to deliver the university's commencement address on Saturday.
He also delivered the commencement speech to this year's graduating class.
I came back 25 years ago to speak at another commencement.
None of the speakers at the commencement directly addressed CUNY's woes.
This year, Pence will deliver the commencement address at Hillsdale College.
Tim Cook was the commencement speaker and he really stepped out.
Clinton gave her Wellesley commencement speech in the spring of 1969.
He invited Trump to speak at the college's 2017 commencement ceremony.
The graduating class then walks through the gate on Commencement Day.
In her 21992 commencement speech, she denounced materialism and corporate greed.
Paul added that he believed 99% of commencement speakers were liberals.
Both books often read like commencement speeches (good ones, but still).
The 140th commencement at Boston College is scheduled for 20113 a.m.
He offered a warning of sorts in his final commencement address.
Remember, celebrity star power doesn't always guarantee a good commencement speech.
Think of the mood on commencement day: Proud parents dressed up.
Harvard hosted its first commencement for black graduate students this spring.
Should Commencement Events Cater to Smaller Groups Within the Graduating Class?
You can watch his commencement address in the video player above.
Trump gave his first commencement speech as president there in May.
Next week I'm going back for commencement to get my degree.
Last week,  Freedom from Facebook , placed an  ad  in the commencement edition of The Tech, MIT's student newspaper, slamming the social network, just before Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was set to give a commencement address.
" Michael Keaton closed his commencement speech at Kent State with "I'm Batman.
I wrote the post and then I gave the Berkeley commencement speech.
Combs, a college dropout, was a controversial choice for a commencement speaker.
Last year, Bourdain delivered CIA's commencement address and received an honorary doctorate.
Describes an orgy he had on a plane during a college commencement.
GUTFELD: I want to do a commencement address for an online college.
The university held its second black commencement last month on May 22.
Russell Wilson, University of Wisconsin Wilson's Saturday commencement speech was plenty inspiring.
She was selected to be the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony.
Take her Wellesley address on Friday: utterly bonkers for a commencement speech.
As President Johnson said, I spoke at my commencement 48 years ago.
Germany was party to two genocides before the commencement of the Holocaust.
Plus, life in a micro apartment, and our roundup of commencement excerpts.
As Madeline Albright said at my Commencement -- see, I don't remember anything.
And Scott was chosen as commencement speaker through a voluntary audition process.
It is now start of commencement of transition of revolutionary to governance.
Listened to "Blood, Sweat, Tears" on the ride to the commencement ceremony.
Liberty University's commencement ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.
Seniors at many schools are even wondering if they will have commencement.
She gave the commencement address at Wellesley, her alma mater, last month.
But whatever their emotional tone, commencement speeches are a guide to life.
President Trump's meandering commencement speech at Liberty University last weekend drew jabs.
So, the top story: Mark Zuckerberg gave a commencement speech at Harvard.
Biden will speak at noon on Saturday for Cornell's 149th commencement weekend.
Last Sunday, at the university's commencement ceremonies, he received a standing ovation.
Zuckerberg also raised the idea during his May 25 Harvard commencement speech.
MJ also broke up with him following their high school commencement ceremony. 
"This is my class," Smith said at the school's commencement in May.
This applies to medical deferments because they prevent the commencement of proceedings.
"An Evening of Counter-Commencement," also organized by Occupy Museums, was not.
Ellison's commencement speech was filled with quotable tidbits and words of wisdom.
"The feedback I've gotten from the Liberty community is that it was the best commencement speech Liberty has ever had and we've had a lot of good, just phenomenal commencement speakers over the last 44 years," Falwell said.
Like this zinger he delivered while making the commencement speech at MIT's graduation.
Haley was not included in the data because Clemson had multiple commencement ceremonies.
In December 2017, Bourdain delivered CIA's commencement speech and received an honorary doctorate.
The first commencement speech he gave as president, last spring, was at Liberty.
The commencement program did not say how long she was scheduled to speak.
ET. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton delivers Wellesley College's commencement address at 10:30 a.m.
Pence gave another commencement speech on Saturday, at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump initially avoided his administration's scandals at a commencement ceremony Wednesday.
Tonight: Trump plagiarized his commencement speech from Elle Woods in Legally Blonde pic.twitter.
Tonight: Trump plagiarized his commencement speech from Elle Woods in Legally Blonde pic.twitter.
Will Michelle Obama address any of this in her commencement address on Friday?
Obama is beginning his final round of commencement addresses as commander-in-chief.
I know people are still wondering why I didn't speak at the commencement.
Carter, 93, is the third president who has hosted Liberty University's commencement speech.
BECKY QUICK: While we're talking about technology, let's talk about Stanford's commencement speech.
Announces commencement of exchange offer and consent solicitation for Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation.
Because it's true what they tell you at commencement: Your future is bright.
Take our commencement speech quiz here, and share your own pearls of wisdom.
Watch live now as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the Harvard commencement address.
Then she mentioned that last year's commencement speaker was the actor Vin Diesel.
Trump delivered the first commencement speech of his presidency at Liberty in May.
"I gave the commencement speech at the University Michigan in 2013," says Costolo.
He had agreed to deliver the V.M.I. commencement address before he was fired.
He looked forward to delivering a commencement speech at the graduation on Friday.
So, will Morehouse's next commencement speaker feel any pressure to match Smith's generosity?
Trump gave the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
"On my day of graduation I never imagined I would visit foreign countries, I never imagined I would be a commencement speaker, I never imagined I would get into a Twitter war with Donald Trump," Warren said during her commencement speech.
Zuckerberg is slated as the featured speaker at the university's 366th commencement in May.
Since it's a commencement speech we're talking about, this wasn't just The Zuckerberg Show.
But I'm not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose.
The event was separate from Harvard's main commencement, which took place two days later.
Last week, she also gave the commencement speech at Wellesley College, her alma mater.
Last evening at the Dolby Theatre, Janelle Monáe led the commencement of the event.
He almost qualifies as a commencement speaker, or at least a Vermont senator. Yes.
In 2003, Ferrell  sang and danced while delivering the commencement address at Harvard University.
I know people are still wondering why I didn't speak at the 23 commencement.
Immediately after the European elections she will deliver the commencement speech at Harvard University.
For instance, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is speaking at Harvard's commencement on May 30.
He'll deliver a commencement address at Liberty University, the evangelical institution in Lynchburg, Virginia.
It was perhaps the best of the half-dozen commencement addresses I've seen live.
Others kept the theme of gun violence front and center in Sunday's commencement ceremony.
"As previously announced, Angela Merkel will be Harvard's Commencement 2019 speaker," the university said.
Universities are even required to report when officials and lawmakers speak at commencement ceremonies.
Two weeks ago, I was at the commencement ceremony at the Air Force Academy.
Pence is also set to deliver the commencement speech at Liberty University next month.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke at Morgan State's commencement last year.
His grandson, Kace, will have his own commencement May 31, the Tribune-Review reported.
"Without Facemash, I wouldn't have met Priscilla," Zuckerberg said in his Harvard commencement address.
BOSTON — On commencement day at Northern Michigan University, some students protested the speaker, Gov.
Some, like the University of Pennsylvania, have decided to hold their commencement ceremonies virtually.
Franklin was awarded an honorary doctorate at Harvard University's commencement in May of 2014.
The commencement of the new reign is therefore effective as of 13 October 2016.
The packet opens with President Barack Obama's commencement address at Howard University in 2016.
Obama is heading to New Jersey on Sunday to speak at Rutgers University's commencement.
Clinton also delivered the school's commencement address in 1992, when she was first lady.
Obama delivered a commencement address to Hadiya's classmates at King College Prep High School.
Not to the first two hours and 45 minutes of the commencement speech, though.
On May 20, professor Taylor gave the commencement address at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Tim Cook brought his pro-privacy views to his Duke University commencement speech today.
Examples include Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's commencement speech being canceled after receiving death threats for criticizing President Donald Trump and the president of Sonoma State University apologizing for allowing a black student to read a poem critical of police violence at commencement.
During his commencement speech at Duke University today, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the data privacy scandals currently roiling the tech industry, comparing his company to Facebook without mentioning it by name: Video of the commencement (Cook begins at 2:16:50):
"You will find that things are not always fair," Mr. Trump said, blurring the lines between an inspirational, forward-looking commencement speech and talk about himself, much as he did at a commencement address to students at Liberty University in Virginia on Saturday.
The commencement ceremonies on May 10 and 11 will proceed as originally planned, Dubois said.
Before commencement, students walked from the Brown campus to the First Baptist Church in America.
Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
Clinton was the first student to ever speak at the Wellesley College commencement in 1969.
Rye spoke proudly about it this past May in Chapel Hill, as UNC's commencement speaker.
We regret any inconvenience to our readers and look forward to the rest of Commencement.
I watch these commencement speeches at my desk every year, and I'm filled with inspiration.
The commencement of the marathon during the 1908 Summer Olympics at Windsor Castle in London.
Law professor Anita Hill speaks at the commencement ceremony at Wesleyan University in May 2018.
It's a video adaptation of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005.
Here he is in June 1965, for instance, giving the commencement address at Oberlin College.
This past weekend, commencement speech at Yale University the poor kids have already been indoctrinated.
We regret any inconvenience to our users and look forward to the rest of Commencement.
Big surprise, Hillary Clinton and other key Democrats get political during commencement addresses this weekend.
Carter is the third U.S. president, and the first Democrat, Liberty has hosted for commencement.
Very crucial will be the tone of the EU at the commencement of the negotiations.
"Without Facemash, I wouldn't have met Priscilla," Zuckerberg said during the 2017 Harvard commencement ceremony.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a similar argument in his Harvard commencement speech in May.
Nothing that he describes in that long-ago commencement address will help anyone "win" consistently.
It was maybe the most meaningful speech that was given that year at a commencement.
Tim Ryan will be the commencement speaker at Iowa's Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield.
Obama delivered the commencement speech at Alabama's Tuskegee University, a historically black college, in 2015.
A number of prominent Republicans have faced student opposition at commencement speeches this graduation season.
Frazee was first notified of the press conference approximately an hour prior to its commencement.
Zuckerberg follows in the footsteps of Steven Spielberg, who spoke at Harvard's 365th commencement ceremony.
Both students instead gave the speeches on bullhorns outside the auditorium after the commencement ceremony.
Here's President Trump waving goodbye to the press before leaving for the Naval Academy commencement.
Cue the "Pomp and Circumstance" music — it's time for college commencement ceremonies across the country.
Commencement season is upon us, a time when congratulations are given and goodbyes are said.
It was the clip of Rogers's 2001 speech at Middlebury College's commencement that got me.
" Source: Rogers' 2001 commencement address at Middlebury College "Love isn't a state of perfect caring.
She has also gone on to offer words of wisdom at multiple college commencement speeches.
He will deliver a commencement speech at Rutgers University in New Jersey on May 15.
It will be the first-ever commencement speech at Rutgers delivered by a sitting president.
Many college graduates are likely to land job offers in the weeks following their commencement.
Pence will also deliver the commencement addresses at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday.
Cory Booker kicked things off Friday with a commencement address at South Carolina State University.
EDT: Vice President Pence spoke at the Coast Guard commencement ceremony in New London, Conn.
"Let's not be anything today except superficial," Emily says, as they enter a commencement ball.
Tim Cook is also a Duke alum and gave the school's commencement address on Sunday.
In March, San Jose State announced that this year's commencement speaker will be Harry Edwards.
Most recently, he broached the topic in his commencement speech at Tulane University in May.
They have given pep talks to marathoners and delivered commencement speeches to high school students.
Liberty University's commencement speaker last year was Mr. Trump, a personal friend of Mr. Falwell's.
In addition to delivering the commencement address, the vice president also received an honorary degree.
But the announcement that Mr. Pence would be commencement speaker this year drew considerable backlash.
Purdue University Global will let some graduates join its 2020 commencement ceremony through virtual reality.
It's got echoes of older quirky graduation experiments, like this Second Life commencement from 2009.
And she said she had never planned to speak about Israel in the commencement address.
She caused a stir by criticizing, however obliquely, the commencement speaker, a United States senator.
Today, those remarks about the commencement speaker, Senator Edward Brooke, Republican of Massachusetts, seem quaint.
She's also given a TED Talk and was the speaker at the 2008 Harvard Commencement.
During his commencement speech at Harvard in May, Zuckerberg also spoke favorably of such programs.
"Ideas don't come out fully formed," says Zuckerberg in a recent commencement speech at Harvard.
The president will also give the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy next week.
"I am pleased to speak at Liberty University's commencement," Carter said in a news release.
Clinton returned to her alma mater to give the 2017 commencement speech 48 years after becoming the first student to deliver a commencement speech in her role as Wellesley class president — a historic moment that landed her on the pages of Life magazine in 1969.
"No, I'm not over it,"  she confessed  while turning Yale's commencement into a self-pity party.
Two Carnegie Mellon business school graduates attended their commencement ceremony last year using a telepresence robot.
The "Tightrope" singer delivered a heartfelt commencement speech after receiving an honorary degree from the school.
Then their commencement speaker really made their day: He promised to pay off their student loans.
"Barnes could have asked Justice Chimes to authorize the commencement of this litigation," Judge Wolford wrote.
Oprah Winfrey delivered an inspiring commencement address at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta on Saturday morning.
Well, unique is the perfect word to describe the commencement address from Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani.
"Malia's school asked if I wanted to speak at commencement and I said no," Obama said.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was invited to give the commencement speech at Harvard on May 25.
Trump recently gave the commencement address at Liberty University, which was bizarre to say the least.
I just thought it was interesting that both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore gave commencement speeches.
GUTFELD: You know, my opinion on commencement addresses is that the advice they give is terrible.
But I am available if you&aposre talking about to do commencement if anybody is interested.
Cruz asked graduates during her commencement speech in May 2004 at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee.
The President got not one, but two shout-outs in Mindy Kaling's recent Dartmouth commencement speech.
He wrote his commencement speech anyway: "My body aches from missing him so much," Seibert said.
Inbox: Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos following Bethune-Cookman University Commencement Ceremony pic.twitter.
Vice President Mike Pence delivers the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy at 10 a.m.
Secretary of Education Betsy Devos recently gave a commencement speech at historically black Bethune-Cookman University.
Commencement season is around the corner, which means students nationwide will receive their graduation caps soon.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed while giving a commencement speech at the historically Black school.
This morning: President Trump spoke at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's commencement ceremony in Groton, Conn.
" His label says Harvard officials "handpicked" Lil Pump to become the "youngest commencement speaker in history.
Lobster Shop South in Tacoma, Washington, is a specialty seafood restaurant with views of Commencement Bay.
EDT: President Obama delivers the commencement address to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
President Obama is delivering a commencement address at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning.
Zuckerberg spoke of his own economic advantage in his commencement address at Harvard University last year.
In May 2017, Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater, Harvard, as its youngest commencement speaker ever.
But her friend didn't spot her at graduation or any of the celebrations surrounding their commencement.
Trump has close ties to the university's president and delivered a commencement speech there in 2202.
One woman who stood had "#Not my commencement speaker" written on the back of her cap.
Trump will deliver the commencement speech to Liberty University, America's largest Christian college, on Saturday morning.
In a commencement address on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton likewise suggested the platform recklessly disregarded the truth.
John Lewis The civil rights icon and congressman will head Harvard's 22018th commencement on May 223.
Smith first announced the gift while speaking at the class of 2019's commencement in May.
James Martin, a Jesuit priest whose critics say he advances a homosexual agenda, as commencement speaker.
In conjunction with RISD Commencement on Saturday, June 3, the show is open from 10am–6pm.
You gave the commencement speech at Simon's Rock, which I had to look up, at Bard.
Which brings me to Elizabeth Warren's commencement address last Friday at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
In conjunction with RISD Commencement on Saturday, June 2, the show is open from 10am–6pm.
Vice President Pence will give the commencement address this year at the University of Notre Dame.
The key to a good commencement address is not insights or revelations, or even substantive communication.
The former Vice President has also given the commencement speech at two other universities this spring.
Family members held a banner with pictures of Shantil Jones after the Georgia State commencement ceremony.
Calculator It's commencement season, and a new crop of college graduates is entering the job market.
Commencement day — a time for colleges and universities to impart one final lesson on their graduates.
Zuckerberg has repeatedly spoken about the topic, including in his commencement address at Harvard University in May.
Commencement speakers are often presented with honorary degrees from the universities that have invited them to speak.
She will be the first to walk across the stage in Saturday afternoon's commencement ceremony at UNCC.
Former President Barack Obama gave Notre Dame's commencement address in May 2009 — months after his first inauguration.
OK — we might be exaggerating a little, but it sure is a festive option on commencement day.
In 2007, Tunnicliffe gave the commencement address at Olivet and received an honorary degree from the university.
A final internal evaluation study is also planned to be completed prior to commencement of field trials.
" In a statement to PEOPLE, OCPS officials said the district is "reviewing its commencement practices for improvements.
The formal terms of reference and panel members will be published at the commencement of the inquiry.
When I first found out my commencement ceremony would be held on Mother's Day, I was disappointed.
This room represents the commencement and ending of life, and the journey one takes through that terrain.
Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you.
I just feel sorry for the students that had to listen to Al Gore do a commencement.
It includes the awarding of academic, artistic, and athletic prizes and the major address of commencement weekend.
President Donald Trump delivered his first commencement address as president at Liberty University in Virginia on Saturday.
Clinton didn't mention Comey as she gave a commencement speech at a university in New York Thursday.
Anyone who can&apost make the rescheduled ceremonies can return for the regular fall commencement in December.
Texas Southern University in Houston had scheduled Cornyn to be the keynote speaker for commencement Saturday morning.
He of course included traditional commencement admonitions to follow precepts and principles and to provide future leadership.
Vice President Pence touted the 220006,2202 number during a commencement address at the Naval Academy last week.
During his commencement speech to graduating Coast Guard cadets, Trump took a verbal swipe at the press.
A place like Liberty University in Virginia, where Trump himself will deliver the commencement, is another story.
This book, written by a former Navy SEAL, is the result of a commencement speech gone viral.
A link to a campus map of all-gender bathrooms is featured prominently on Yale's commencement website.
On May 26, she will return to her alma mater Wellesley College to give the commencement address.
After walking across the commencement stage, student-loan borrowers typically receive a little break from their lenders.
After the commencement, the RHOC star shared video from Spencer's graduation dinner, where she dined on fish.
I was going to give the entire commencement speech about them but was talked out of it.
She gave the student commencement speech in 1969 and returned again to deliver the address in 1992.
Sanders' commencement speech at Brooklyn College focused on citizens' responsibility to end government corruption and economic equality.
A large group of students just walked out of Notre Dame's commencement during VP Mike Pence's address.
Yale University is promoting new gender-neutral bathrooms on its website ahead of its commencement on Monday.
Zuckerberg also admitted the inequity of his own wealth in his Harvard commencement speech delivered in May.
President Obama took sharp swipes at Mr. Trump on Sunday during his commencement address at Rutgers University.
President Obama is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Rutgers University, starting at 12:50 p.m.
President Trump will deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduation ceremony on Thursday.
President Obama will address graduates of Howard University at this year's commencement ceremony, the school announced Thursday.
The former Democratic presidential nominee will speak on May 85033, the day before the official commencement ceremony.
Former President Carter will deliver the commencement speech at Liberty University in May, the school announced Thursday.
During one of this weekend's commencement ceremonies, we were inappropriately aggressive in rushing students across the stage.
His school's commencement ceremony was on May 25 — but Dunn still got to walk at his graduation.
In 2014, protesters demanded that invitations be rescinded for at least 16 commencement speakers, the foundation said.
We're all familiar with "Pomp & Circumstance," the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement.
"Focus on signal over noise," Musk said at the University of Southern California Commencement Speech in 2014.
Last year, when Gwen's older brother, Carter, graduated, the commencement speaker was Cady Coleman, a retired astronaut.
At Howard University's commencement on May 7, the leader of the free world talked about a superhero.
The college spent $100,000 to rent the minor-league stadium in Tacoma for the commencement on Friday.
We observed the formalities; we laughed, we cried, we got soaking wet (it was a rainy commencement).
During a commencement address, the president lamented how he had been treated, especially by the news media.
Obama will speak at Jackson State University, a historically black university holding its 139th spring commencement ceremony.
Le matin du mariage marquera pour Tshego le commencement de sa propre relation avec la famille royale.
In May, Smith stunned students, their parents and school officials when he announced his offer during commencement.
University commencement speakers in 2017 offered advice that we are used to hearing this time of year.
In 1997, he was the commencement speaker when, at age 79, she graduated from Marymount Manhattan College.
And if you're not planning on attending Cornell's commencement this year, please enjoy this classic video instead:
The tech guru even calls death "the single best invention in life" in a 2005 commencement speech.
Johnson took classes online and at the age of 55, marched in the school's 2015 commencement ceremony.
Hyperallergic reached out to the Whitney for further comment on the counter-commencement but received no response.
The same month as her commencement, F.B.I. agents contacted Ms. Witt, according to the indictment against her.
Mark Zuckerberg gets teary-eyed discussing inequality during his Harvard commencement speech in May Mark Zuckerberg gets teary-eyed discussing inequality during his Harvard commencement speech in May Facebook's tools then bring up local language resources from its partners, including telephone hotlines for suicide prevention and nearby authorities.
NEW YORK – Barbara Bush&aposs widely praised commencement address at Wellesley College is being released as a book.
A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing, Rhimes said at Dartmouth's 2014 commencement speech.
I think by the time I gave the Berkeley commencement speech I was already working on the book.
Franklin was awarded an honorary doctorate at a Harvard University commencement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2014.
As we head into graduation season, a batch of commencement speakers will add their tips to the list.
"Building walls" is not the way of the future, said Obama, during Sunday's commencement speech at Rutgers University.
Secretary of State John Kerry also called out Trump on Friday in his commencement address at Northeastern University.
Young America's Foundation survey on commencement speakers found that zero conservatives were invited to the top 45 universities.
The graduation ceremony's commencement address was delivered by Vice President Mike Pence, who noted the day's historical significance.
So even the heavens are celebrating this morning, joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony.
Justice Stephen Breyer will speak at New York Law School&aposs commencement at Carnegie Hall on June 1.
The recent flurry of graduation ceremonies and commencement speeches may have you fondly reminiscing about your college days.
Forty-eight years after her commencement speech made her a national star, Hillary Clinton returns to Wellesley. pic.twitter.
Jimmy Fallon surprised graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday, with a commencement speech to remember.
Image: GettyHarvard just announced that Facebook founder and aspiring politician Mark Zuckerberg will deliver this year's commencement address.
Vice President Pence gave the commencement address today at Notre Dame University in his home state of Indiana.
Contrary to some reports, Polizzi didn't speak at commencement, but instead just an event hosted by the school.
It seems that the administration at Bethune-Cookman has forgotten what commencement is about and whom it serves.
Pence is the first vice president to deliver a commencement speech at Notre Dame, according to the university.
Simons, the incoming president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, hopes to make black commencement a tradition.
The university did not announce Trump would be making a commencement speech on its website ahead of time.
But in her commencement address at Tulane University on Saturday, she revealed something interesting: she has a tattoo.
Caution: If you attend a campus commencement address this spring, you could be entering a no-Trump zone.
Instead, his gown lay draped over a chair in the front row at Bowie State University's commencement ceremony.
And you can debut as number one at commencement with this cap inspired by the mixtape's cover art.
Let's wrap this up with a quote from President Obama's commencement address, given this weekend at Rutgers University.
Ms. Salinas also delivered a commencement address at a university-wide ceremony earlier in the day without incident.
In 1990, scores of students at Wellesley College had signed a petition protesting her selection as commencement speaker.
"These liberal commencement addresses aren't inspiring, they're divisive," said Spencer Brown, national spokesman for the Young Americas Foundation.
"Look," Peck continued, "we're forced to push commencement services back two days," to audible groans from the class.
Strains of Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1 are echoing across the land this commencement season.
As he worked on his commencement speech, she was writing one of her own — for Penn's undergraduate ceremony.
The other honorees, including the commencement speaker, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, will have mortarboards.
The next morning, he and his friends listened as the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the commencement address.
I believe that the commencement of the "interest on reserves" policy in October 28503 was a total blunder.
In fact, she arrived to her commencement ceremony at Midlands Technical College an hour and a half early.
"To bring about structural change, lasting change, [raising] awareness is not enough," Obama said in his commencement speech.
EDT: Vice President Biden delivers the commencement address to the 2016 graduating class of Syracuse University Law School.
And on May 26, she will return to her alma mater Wellesley College to give the commencement address.
University President Harris Pastides said he would present the degree immediately after the university's commencement ceremony in Columbia.
Politicians are a popular choice for commencement speakers -- and they also tend to make headlines in their speeches.
I can't recall ever reading about a commencement address that focused on the importance of saving and investing.
He gave a series of commencement speeches over the past few weeks, calling for American purpose and unity.
President Trump is scheduled to speak at commencement ceremonies at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday morning.
The foundation maintains a "disinvitation database" of speakers who have been disinvited from college campuses, including at commencement.
Once they ​passed written tests after months of Bible studies, converts ​became participants in a spectacular commencement ceremony.
"We're going to put a little fuel in your bus," Mr. Smith, the commencement speaker, told the crowd.
In 1993, Mr. McCain gave the commencement address at Annapolis: the sorcerer's apprentice, home to inspire the midshipmen.
While yet again the commencement speech at Trump University was given by a raccoon that wandered on stage.
At a commencement address in 2010, Bezos said Gise taught him "it's harder to be kind than clever."
EST: President Trump delivers the commencement address at the Hope for Prisoners Graduation Ceremony in Las Vegas, Nev.
"I built a lot of character as a custodian," she says in 2015 commencement address at Nazareth College.
The chief justice made that statement in May 20163 in a speech at Georgetown University's law school commencement.
Women of the United States Military Academy celebrate after commencement ceremonies in West Point, New York, May 25.
Like her former presidential rival, Clinton is also slated to speak at her alma mater's commencement this May.
"Where you live shouldn't determine whether you get educated," Smith wrote on Instagram after the May commencement ceremony.
This is from when she was a college student, even, because she gave a commencement address at Wellesley.
Some people have joked that his gift raises the bar for commencement speakers everywhere, but given that Smith already had a special relationship with Morehouse College (and that he's one of the richest men in the country), his gesture may not necessarily spark a trend of philanthropic commencement-speech gestures.
Both Airbnb founders accepted honorary degrees at the 2017 commencement ceremony at RISD, where Chesky delivered the keynote speech. 
At Harvard, a recent mumps out break has gotten more 40 students sick just a few weeks before commencement.
The group formed outside a college convocation center where the commencement was held, creating a semicircle around the speakers.
Harvard University held its first commencement for black students in May 2017, two days ahead of the main ceremony.
Women of the United States Military Academy celebrate after commencement ceremonies in West Point, New York, May 226. Rev.
It all started after Winfrey, 65, delivered the commencement address for the graduating class at Colorado College on Sunday.
For job seekers eager to land a position as commencement nears, networking is still your best bet, experts say.
I recently had the privilege and the pleasure of delivering the commencement address at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering.
Smith made the announcement Sunday as he gave the commencement address at the historically black men's college in Atlanta.
Goodall spoke at the University of Redlands commencement ceremony, sharing the obstacles she overcame to conduct her historic research.
"Now, the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you," Roberts said.
President Donald Trump is making the commencement speech today at the US Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony in Connecticut.
The FBI virtually never announces the commencement or termination of ongoing criminal investigations or the discovery of new evidence.
To attend her son Stephan's commencement ceremony, Sharonda Wilson was unable to attend her own from Ferris State University.
Dannel P. Malloy served as commencement speaker at the unusual ceremony held behind prison walls at Cheshire Correctional Institution.
And as she came of age around Commencement Bay, her enchantment with the sea and life therein only deepened.
Dozens of Taylor University faculty members and graduating students walked out of Mike Pence's commencement speech on Saturday morning.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on the need to consider universal basic income for Americans during his Harvard Commencement Speech.
Mark Zuckerberg is an unlikely commencement speaker, something that he acknowledged in his opening remarks at today's graduation ceremony.
Like most wisdom (even the clichéd variety that is overrepresented in commencement addresses), it doesn't go out of style.
Another reason for the temperance in Treasury yields was the commencement of QE programs from those very same countries.
MORE gave the Howard commencement address as a presidential candidate in 2007, and then again as president in 2016.
"Diverse groups make better decisions," Clinton said during his commencement speech at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Time reported.
As graduation season approaches, colleges across the country are locking down commencement speakers to address the class of 2017.
If you're relying on a commencement speaker to set your compass, you may still be confused at day's end.
Trump spoke at the commencement ceremony for Liberty University last year, where he also received an honorary law degree.
I have agreed to be the Commencement Speaker at our GREAT Naval Academy on May 85033th in Annapolis, Maryland.
"There's always someone who wants to slow you down," he said in a commencement address at Harvard last year.
"She wishes the graduates and their families a joyous commencement weekend and success for the future," the statement read.
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Of those who financed college through loans, the class of 2015 left commencement day $20113,000 in debt on average.
He will also speak at Princeton University's Class Day on June 22018 as part of its commencement activities. Sen.
First Mention On March 6, 13, The New-York Times described the commencement exercises at New-York Medical College.
In one 2005 commencement speech, she recounted being called the "token bimbo" at an early job with AT&T.
His last public appearance was on June 15 when he spoke at an elementary school commencement event in Washington.
But you released a book giving advice called Make Trouble, which was based on a commencement speech you gave?
Ellison gave the commencement speech after making a $200 million gift to fund a cancer research center at USC.
No wonder he was invited to give a commencement speech at a Russian university in the summer of 2016.
They have broken the news that commencement will be called off and, sometimes, that tuition will not be refunded.
"I'll meet scores of leaders," Mr. Trump told Coast Guard cadets on Wednesday as he spoke at their commencement.
But it is not a good enough reason to invite a member of the Trump White House to commencement.
"It wasn't a cliff; it was the federal courthouse here in Washington, DC," she said in a commencement speech.
In a 2017 Harvard commencement speech, Zuckerberg said that people were interested in buying Facebook during its early years.
In May, they gave the commencement address at Catholic University; last year, in Philadelphia, Jim opened for the Pope.
It's graduation weekend, and the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry is holding its commencement ceremonies this evening.
When Trump delivered a commencement speech in 2017, the university printed and sold Trump-branded merchandise at the event.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was loudly booed as she delivered a commencement speech at historically black Bethune-Cookman University.
In Harlem in 503, he spoke to an audience of some 15,000 white people as City College's commencement speaker.
Instead, it offers up a peculiar amalgam that's part commencement speech, part policy analysis, and part gentle GOP ribbing.
Taylor is a rising public intellectual, and the students of Hampshire College asked her to be their commencement speaker.
In a surprise appearance Friday, Hillary Clinton delivered a commencement address to graduates of San Francisco&aposs exclusive Hamlin School.
Every run was undertaken with the same character, Alexandra of (Port) Blacksand, one of four available at the game's commencement.
Tracy K. Smith offered the advice Friday during her keynote speech at Wellesley College&aposs commencement ceremony in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
In May, Tillerson delivered a thinly veiled rebuke to the president during a commencement address at the Virginia Military Institute.
Mark Zuckerberg shed tears, threw shade, and got (mildly) political in a commencement speech to his alma mater on Thursday.
"We spent too much time debating," Cook told Tulane University graduates during a commencement speech in New Orleans on Saturday.
"Every generation has had to confront its own demagogues," Bloomberg said at a commencement address at the University of Michigan.
The University of Florida is facing major backlash after some graduates didn't get their righful moment to celebrate at commencement.
It's a professional experience that Rowling discussed in a commencement speech to Harvard University graduates on the theme of failure.
"The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you,'" the "Harry Potter" author said in her commencement speech.
This is MIT's 139th commencement, and Damon will be the first Hollywood star to give the address in 17 years.
Although this exhibition marks the end of formal study, it is the commencement of thirteen promising careers in the arts.
In May, Zucker gave the commencement address at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, at City College.
Here are bits of wisdom for wherever you are in life from some of this year's most memorable commencement speeches.
PERINO: I would say, like, I think that every commencement speech would be more successful if it made no news.
The #MeToo movement has driven up the demand of female speakers during commencement ceremonies, according to the The Associated Press .
"Related stories included "BREAKING: Mork Zinkeltink Zonks all over the Internet" and "OOPS: MINK PINKLEBINK ACCIDENTALLY 'LIKES' OWN COMMENCEMENT SPEECH.
Here, he casts his benevolent gaze upon priests and devotees at the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple awaiting the commencement of rituals.
But Frazee "was first notified of the press conference approximately an hour prior to its commencement," according to his attorney.
Probably not, if you're a salmon swimming in the waters near the mouth of Blair Waterway in Tacoma's Commencement Bay.
Instead of the Crimson's regularly planned special commencement issue, the website showcased some not so flattering photoshops and strange headlines.
But he took a chance on me, and 27 years later I was honored to give the commencement speech there.
Earlier this year, Winfrey delivered the commencement address at Smith College, telling graduates the secret to success is serving others.
Shortly before the vice president delivered the nondenominational Christian liberal arts school's commencement speech, many were seen leaving their seats.
Protesters cited the lack of input from students and faculty regarding the choice of Pence for the ceremony's commencement speech.
Speaking at the school's 150th commencement, Sanders referenced what he dubbed the current "pivotal and dangerous moment" in U.S. history.
Nearly 60,000 students and member of the BCU community signed a petition to prevent Devos from speaking at their commencement.
Trump himself previewed his objectives Wednesday during a commencement address at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
"Don't let anyone tell you your voice doesn't matter," Clinton said in her commencement speech at the all-women school.
The judge ordered that the sensitive documents be sealed for 6 months or until the commencement of any criminal case.
Just 10 days before the Olympic commencement, Mexican military and armed men shot at thousands of student demonstrators in Tlatelolco.
Rowling said it in recounting her own-rags-to-riches journey during a commencement address at Harvard University in 2008.
Sheryl Sandberg addressed the graduating class of 2017 at Virginia Tech's commencement this morning armed with one central theme: resilience.
Cover image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 25, 2017.
Vice President Biden will deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy next month, according to The Associated Press.
And on May 15, Biden will speak at the University of Notre Dame's graduation, but not for the commencement address.
Addressing Rutgers University's class of 2016 at the school's 250th anniversary commencement, Mr. Obama never mentioned Mr. Trump by name.
Bush appeared at the commencement, sharing the podium with Soviet first lady Raisa Gorbachev, who had been a college professor.
Students were being urged to join a demonstration during the traditional university graduation procession that kicks off commencement on Sunday.
Editorial In his recent commencement address at Rutgers University, President Obama focused on the noneconomic reasons for going to college.
"How does one sleep with such memories beneath the pillow?" she wonders at the commencement of her conversations with Lewis.
Today, Oprah Winfrey gave an impassioned commencement speech at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
She spent much of the commencement address talking about how the system is "rigged" against African-Americans and their families.
Over 3,000 people signed a petition opposing DeVos as commencement speaker and calling for the university to rescind the invitiation.
In May 2010, then-Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook gave the commencement speech at his alma mater, Auburn University.
He delivered the commencement address at the Naval Academy last year, and spoke at Liberty University's graduation ceremony in 2017.
Most every president gives a commencement address at a prominent public and private university in addition to the military academies.
The student group tasked with selecting commencement speakers voted to withdraw Maher's invitation, but school officials didn't honor the vote.
One of my best memories is their [Wes's] band, right before our graduation, they were playing at our commencement ball.
Officials canceled spring break and moved commencement up to April 221, rushing to finish the semester before funding goes dry.
First Lady Michelle Obama used her final commencement address to deliver a series of important messages to this year's graduates.
President Barack Obama headed to Rutgers University over the weekend to deliver the commencement address to the class of 2016.
At the University of Maine in Orono, just north of Bangor, decisions are still being weighed about its commencement ceremony.
"The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail," Zuckerberg said in a Harvard University commencement speech in 2017.
The first time there was a conflict, he said, he successfully appealed to school officials to change the commencement ceremonies.
Commencement Addresses Offer Road Maps to the Future They may be cliché-ridden, funny, witty, inspirational, sad and sometimes angry.
In high-profile criminal cases, prosecutors are usually well-prepared far in advance of the commencement of a complex trial.
Gail Collins Wow, Donald Trump can't even give a commencement speech to the military without making it all about him.
In 2008, J.K. Rowling gave a now famous commencement speech at Harvard in which she detailed the benefits of failure.
"Usually commencement is free of this kind of explicit racism, but not this year, which is really sad," he said.
Trump was presented with the honorary degree in 1988, when he was chosen by the graduating class as commencement speaker.
Her tenure as acting attorney general was supposed to be uneventful, Ms. Yates said during ceremonies the day before commencement.
The American Presidency Project's first commencement speech on record dates to 1914, when Woodrow Wilson addressed the U.S. Naval Academy.
Co-founder and board member Evan Williams disparagingly joked about Trump using the platform at a commencement address in May.
Hillary Clinton used her Wellesley College commencement speech to remind us of something important: She's seen obstruction of justice before.
"We have a level of wealth inequality that hurts everyone," Zuckerberg said in his May 2017 commencement address at Harvard.
"We don't want to replace one fossil fuel with another," Bloomberg said in June during a commencement speech at MIT.
In his commencement address on Saturday, Carter said that such discrimination is now an even bigger problem than wealth disparity.
He's also slated to give the commencement speech a few days earlier at the evangelical Liberty University, on May 13.
He is in constant demand as a lecturer across the country, and he's booked for commencement addresses years in advance.
Ellison's commencement speech was quite the coup for the USC class, but there's a good reason why he was there.
What's so interesting is I open the book with Steve Jobs's 2005 commencement address at Stanford, which is justly famous.
On Monday, Rutgers University-Newark said Pierce had withdrawn as the speaker for the school's commencement this week, citing the incident.
As for participating in her own family related affairs, such as weddings, reunions or commencement ceremonies, Zoë draws a hard line.
That crash unfolded a few hours before Defense Secretary Jim Mattis gave the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Cosby, who had received a bachelor's degree from Temple, had long been a commencement speaker and major fundraiser for the university.
The media mogul has been the commencement speaker at numerous schools throughout her impressive career, including Stanford, Harvard and Howard universities.
The group was wrapping up the training program with a kind of commencement ceremony when the Thai police arrived, Kogan added.
Obama used his commencement speech Sunday at Rutgers University to tear into the presumptive GOP nominee, without ever mentioning his name.
Racquel Smith, who was shot in the legs during the attack that killed her husband, received it during Thursday's commencement ceremony.
Zuckerberg's in town because he's finally receiving that degree (an honorary degree) by giving the Commencement speech to be delivered Thursday.
Indeed, Zuckerberg's 6,000-world "manifesto" released earlier this year centered on community, as did his speech at Harvard's commencement in May.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a 2441 Harvard commencement speech that the idea of universal basic income should be explored.
Jacobs was referring to a now-famous commencement speech that Bill and Melinda Gates gave to Stanford University graduates in 2014.
Sweet Briar College commencement speaker and alumna, Nella Gray Barkley, came under fire for criticizing the #MeToo movement during her address.
The late writer David Foster Wallace sounded a similar theme in "This is Water," a commencement address he gave in 2005.
All right, Tyrus, if you are asked to do a commencement speech, would you do it and what would you say?
CEO Tim Cook delivered a blistering attack on his competitors this past weekend, as part of a commencement speech at Stanford.
Each Thursday in May, our #TBT series will highlight some of the best commencement addresses delivered by recent commanders in chief.
"The signing of the agreement marks the commencement of a new chapter of the cooperation between the two companies," it said.
That's mostly a joke, but HRC did talk about how she's been coping during her commencement speech Friday at Wellesley College.
In normal circumstances, we'd suggest you listen to the full speech but, honestly, who ever listens to a full commencement speech.
Prior to delivering a commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday morning, the President remained largely out of the public eye.
Clinton, a political science major (go figure!) who graduated with honors, was the first-ever student speaker at the school's commencement.
Giving the commencement speech at the Parkland, Florida, school — where a gunman killed 17 people during a mass shooting on Feb.
Zuckerberg, one of the university's most famous dropouts, is on campus to deliver the commencement address to the class of 2017.
A week from today, Mark Zuckerberg will take to the stage in Cambridge, MA, to give the 366th Harvard commencement address.
Bush appeared at the Wellesley commencement, sharing the podium with Soviet first lady Raisa Gorbachev, who had been a college professor.
If you made it to the one hour and one minute mark, you got a free commencement address from Eugene Wei.
And in his Harvard commencement speech delivered in June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for universal basic income to increase innovation.
On Monday, Mr. Pierce withdrew from plans to deliver the commencement address at the Newark campus of Rutgers University on Wednesday.
Wearing matching caps and gowns, Williams carried her daughter across the Harvard commencement stage to receive her degree, reports USA Today.
But watching videos of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches on the night before commencement, she recalls, inspired her to speak up.
The University of Florida has suspended a faculty member who rushed mostly black graduates off the stage during a commencement ceremony.
The president delivered the commencement address at the Naval Academy last year, and spoke at Liberty University's graduation ceremony in 2017.
In 1969, Hillary Rodham (like Ephron, a Wellesley woman) was giving a commencement address that won her notice in Life magazine.
Harvard's most famous dropout (okay, maybe second) is going to be giving the commencement speech at the prestigious college's upcoming graduation.
In 2010, Obama spoke at the University of Michigan commencement ceremony and encouraged the crowd to try broadening their news intake.
Vice President Pence will give a commencement speech at Liberty University, he announced Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
More Castro news: He's headed back to New Hampshire on May 12 to deliver the commencement address at New England College.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced Friday he will deliver a commencement speech at the United States Naval Academy next month.
But the irony is that it was pretty amazing to do a commencement speech, considering I never graduated from anywhere really.
"I'm not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose," Zuckerberg said toward the beginning of the address.
It is based on the commencement speech she gave at Barnard College in New York last year that quickly went viral.
At Commencement Day at the California Institute of Technology, where I am pursuing a Ph.D., the speaker was Representative John Lewis.
Your Money Adviser New college graduates may not have been counting the months that have passed since those heady commencement ceremonies.
Edward W. Brooke from Massachusetts gave the commencement address — one that didn't sit well with Clinton and some of her classmates.
The American Presidency Project's first commencement speech on record dates to 1914, when Woodrow Wilson addressed the United States Naval Academy.
Notre Dame said in a statement that he was the first vice president to deliver a commencement address at the university.
The remark came on Wednesday after Mr. Trump gave a commencement address to the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
Joe Biden delivered a commencement speech at the University of Delaware where he addressed the original decision to go to war.
But university administrators never formally recognized the union, despite a high-profile hunger strike and a protest march on commencement morning.
It was standard for all commencement speakers to be given honorary diplomas at that time, Lehigh spokesperson Lori Friedman told CNN.
I'm giving the commencement speech at Virginia Tech this year, the 10th anniversary of the shootings, and it's about collective resilience.
On Saturday, he was sitting on the stage for his graduation from vocational school, where he was the student commencement speaker.
Twenty-five percent of the options vest on the first anniversary of the vesting commencement date, and the remaining 75% of the options vest in 36 monthly instalments for each full month of continuous service provided by the option holder thereafter, such that 100% of the options shall become vested on the fourth anniversary of the vesting commencement date.
Zakaria noted that "at the height of commencement season," many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.
Nearly 400 young men at Morehouse College learned that their commencement speaker — billionaire Robert F. Smith — will pay off their student loans.
Washington (CNN)Stalled Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Sunday returned to his suburban Chicago high school to deliver its commencement address.
Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman, confirmed that the 2016 Democratic nominee will be the commencement speaker at the all-women college in May.
A few rain-soaked yards away, Drew Faust, president of Harvard University, was giving her commencement address for the Class of 2017.
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do," Jobs said in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address.
Jimmy Fallon, host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, surprised seniors at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas commencement this weekend, CNN reports.
Evaluation of the Field Trial Hardware and the performance of individual assays will continue through to commencement of the European field trials.
Former president Bush is awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree during Harvard commencement ceremonies on May 29, 2014, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
FROM COINAGE: 7 Most Expensive Music Videos Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer Rundgren delivered the class of 2017 commencement address.
Winfrey, 65, delivered a rousing speech as she addressed the graduating class at Colorado College during their commencement ceremony on Sunday morning.
But it&aposs that time of year when commencement speakers attempt desperately to impart words of wisdom and inspiration to graduating seniors.
" Genzlinger described the performance shown in the film as a "stand-up comedy routine" that at times "sounds like a commencement address.
Pierce later canceled his commencement speech at Rutgers University-Newark, which was scheduled for Wednesday following his arrest, according to the school.
She's in her cap and gown, at her commencement; she has the sun on her face and the wind in her hair.
Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept the degree on his behalf during the school's spring commencement on May 13.
Fulton and Tracy Martin plan to offer some remarks to the graduates at the commencement, but she admits it will be tough.
Earlier today, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a stirring, emotional, and inspirational commencement speech to graduating students at UC Berkeley.
Pence was delivering the commencement speech after receiving an honorary degree from the Catholic university, located in his home state of Indiana.
I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The quip came during the United States Coast Guard commencement ceremony in New London, Connecticut, where the President delivered the keynote address.
"It's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference," Trump said at a commencement address Saturday.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked to give this year's commencement address at Harvard, he asked for advice from Bill Gates.
Clinton returned to the women's college located outside of Boston, Ma., 48 years after she delivered the student commencement speech in 1969.
College dropout-turned-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally got his degree today, and now he's about to give Harvard's 366th commencement speech.
During a segment on The Tonight Show, Fallon noted that after watching Trump's recent commencement speech at Liberty University, something sounded familiar.
As The Seattle Times reported on Thursday, the threats started after Fox News covered her May 30 commencement speech at Hampshire College.
During a commencement address in 2007, Mr. Patrick outlined a 10-year education proposal that included universal prekindergarten and free community college.
Last week, Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, was faced with hecklers as he delivered a commencement address at Georgetown University.
" He described himself as "stranded at the commencement of my voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail.
To determine what he would say in his speech, Munger asked himself which of the previous commencement speeches he wished were longer.
When I think of the potential of these young people, I often think of our commencement speaker this year: Cristina Jimenez Moreta.
"I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago," Bezos said in the commencement speech he delivered at Princeton in 2010.
"Getting ready to deliver the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy graduation," Trump tweeted shortly after landing in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Currently, in U.S., there are 25 million employees signed the "Arbitration Clause" on commencement stage, that means they can't sue collectively onwards.
Valedictorian Matt Easton said that he is "proud to be a gay son of God" during his commencement speech late last month.
Bush was the graduation speaker at his alma mater, Yale; Reagan gave the commencement address at the historically black college, Tuskegee University.
While delivering their commencement address in May, Smith pledged to pay off all of the Morehouse class of 2019's student loans.
Last month, the comedian delivered a commencement speech for the graduates at Grinnell College in Iowa, which he graduated from in 2001.
I attended commencement with a graduation cap less than half covered in Cheetos and most of them fell off in the heat.
Weekends in May are filled with commencement addresses from the country's entertainers, CEOs and politicians to the new class of college graduates.
"Even that is possible," Trump said, speaking on Air Force One before departing for Lynchburg, Virginia, where he delivered a commencement address.
He recently graduated from Stanford (congratulations, David!) and part of their commencement ceremony is a "Wacky Walk" into the stadium in costume.
It was a theme in his recent commencement address at Harvard and has been mentioned multiple times during his cross-country travels.
Three months after earning her Olympic titles, she accepted a request to be the commencement speaker for Remsen High's class of 2014.
Some schools, however, said they had no mechanism for rescinding honorary degrees, which are largely symbolic and frequently presented to commencement speakers.
The earliest commencement speech on record at the American Presidency Project dates to 1914, when Woodrow Wilson addressed the U.S. Naval Academy.
Liberty University is an evangelical school run by Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. The president gave the school's commencement address in May.
A Thunderbird jet crashed Thursday afternoon following an U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony for which President Obama was the commencement speaker.
The charges, which grew out of a monthslong grand jury investigation, came just as Penn State was beginning its spring commencement weekend.
It was a theme in his recent commencement address at Harvard, and has been mentioned multiple times during his cross-country travels.
Clinton delivered the commencement speech at her alma mater Wellesley College on Friday, 48 years after she delivered their student graduation address.
At the commencement ceremony, Deah's classmate Kaushal Gandhi, one of the founders of DEAH DAY, shows Layla and Farris her tassel charm.
"Specifically, Congress should deny funding for the investigation of any matters that precede the commencement of the 2016 presidential campaign," DeSantis wrote.
It's also a tip he said he'd give to his 22-year-old self in a commencement address to his alma mater.
The allegations against Wilson Security since the commencement of their contracts on Manus Island and Nauru in 2012 are extensive and disturbing.
During that ceremony, she took the stage in a sparkling, tasseled pink dress to perform songs and to give a commencement speech.
Clinton to speak a year ago, after welcoming last year's commencement speaker, Donna Brazile, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
"If you want to see what imposter phenomenon looks like, watch a video of Natalie Portman's commencement speech at Harvard," she says.
At a commencement address on Wednesday, he said that "no politician in history ... has been treated more unfairly," which is pretty flatly false.
He drew fire, for instance, for message he delivered at the 2013 commencement at Morehouse College, the historically black men's college in Atlanta.
The actor and director headed to the African country to give the commencement address for the 2018 Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy graduating class.
Vice President Joe Biden was also at Sunday's commencement, supporting granddaughter Naomi Biden, another member of the Ivy League school's class of 2016.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will deliver the May commencement address at Liberty University, the largest Christian university in the world announced Wednesday.
Notre Dame traditionally selects the new president for its commencement ceremony, but instead chose the vice president over President Donald Trump this year.
As Mirren delivered the commencement address at Tulane University, she said she wanted to tell graduates something they'd remember 40 years from now.
Those comments led many students to turn their back on DeVos at a spring commencement at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college.
Speaking during her commencement address, Sandberg talked about the role that Facebook has played in supporting democracy and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Ahead of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's commencement speech at Harvard today, the school's much-lauded student newspaper had some… interesting headlines to share.
And he again apologized at a separate commencement ceremony Sunday to the students who had been escorted from the stage the previous day.
Savannah Guthrie traded Rockefeller Center for the National Mall this weekend, delivering the George Washington University commencement speech in Washington, D.C. on Sunday.
It's graduation season, a time when some of the biggest names out there take the stage to share their wisdom in commencement speeches.
With that in mind, here are 10 notable commencement speakers by people who have figured out what to do after (or during) college.
Maybe it's the commencement season that's got Al Franken, senator from Minnesota and Saturday Night Live alum, feeling nostalgic for his alma mater.
You get all of the liberal assumptions because, the fact is, the perfect commencement speaker is like a human version of my pillow.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was met with protests Wednesday while giving a commencement speech at a historically black college in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The... Earlier today, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a stirring, emotional, and inspirational commencement speech to graduating students at UC Berkeley.
Even as recently as Wednesday, at a commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy, Trump, ripped the media for its alleged bad treatment.
Schwarzenegger also posted the same photograph to his Instagram account, where he described the commencement speech he gave at the University of Houston.
Ferrell's Houston moment recalls the actor's 2003 commencement address at Harvard, from which Ferrell joked he didn't get a call back from admissions.
Jeb Bush delivered the commencement address last spring; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson spoke at the school in November; and in September, Vermont Sen.
Trump highlighted his support for American icebreaking ships last week during his commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
"I couldn't go to school and educate my kids at the same time," he told CNN after the commencement ceremony on May 5.
In addition, Stanford students said on social media that they planned to carry protest signs as they walk toward the prestigious university's commencement.
Between your commencement speaker and every aunt and uncle at your graduation party, I am sure you are getting a lot of advice.
Notre Dame said in a statement in March that Pence will be the first sitting vice president to give a commencement speech there.
This week, DJI announced a brand new drone, Mark Zuckerberg delivered the Harvard commencement speech and Airbnb's internal data science program was announced.
President Barack Obama used his commencement speech at Rutgers University on Sunday to take a dig at Donald Trump and the Republican party.
After all, let's be real: Commencement speeches can easily fall into the same platitudinous traps we've come to expect at these gatherings. Amirite?
"The commencement of the proceedings has no effect on the negotiation process or CIMIC Group's entitlement to the amounts under negotiation," it added.
Scientists have learned that the sort of enduring fascination that commencement speakers like to praise usually takes time and experience to bloom fully.
Harvard has held similar black graduation ceremonies for undergraduate students in the past and already hosts an additional commencement ceremony for Latinx students.
Other universities, such as Columbia and Stanford, have also held similar commencement ceremonies specifically for black, LGBT, Asian, Latinx and Native American students.
And a legitimate part of Obama's legacy would have been the commencement of an honest debate about how transgendered people should be treated.
While delivering a commencement speech at Howard University on Saturday, President Obama had high praises to sing for Beyoncé, reports the Associated Press.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev symbolically marked the commencement of the project at a meeting in Uzbekistan on Friday.
She gave the commencement addressat her graduation from Wellesley College in 1969 at the age of 22 and later attended Yale Law School.
One highlight of her tenure was welcoming Michelle Obama to the campus last month to deliver her final commencement speech as first lady.
Earlier this year, he was happy to find out I'd be speaking at both my high school and college as the commencement speaker.
Discussions took place over the weekend when Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Duke University to give a commencement address, according to the Journal.
Vice President Pence warned the 2019 graduating class at Liberty University in his commencement address that they would face persecution for their faith.
Friday, she compared President Donald Trump's presidency to that of Richard Nixon's in a fiery commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College.
This story has been updated to reflect the proper location of the Kean University commencement ceremony and to add two additional speeches Sen.
Last year, Trump spoke at the United States Coast Guard Academy commencement, where he notably bemoaned media coverage of his presidency to cadets.
Carter, 85033, became the first current or former Democratic president to speak at Liberty University when he delivered a commencement address in May.
Zuckerberg, in his Harvard University commencement speech last month, warned of both the economic and psychological impact technology will have on future generations.
President Trump is set to deliver his first commencement address since taking office on Saturday morning at Liberty University, America's largest Christian college.
When Ms. Rice was invited in 2014 to speak at the Rutgers University commencement, the advance protests grew so sulfurous that she withdrew.
The "chaos factory" is what Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, called Silicon Valley in a commencement address at Stanford on Sunday.
At her commencement speech at the City College of New York this year, she criticized negative leaders without calling Trump out by name.
Some are exploring "virtual"alternatives, while others are considering inviting seniors back for commencement at a later date or just mailing out diplomas.
Mr. Bowling was quoting a May 2012 commencement speech President Obama gave to the graduating class of Barnard College in New York City.
After my two years at Maryland, I was chosen by a group of deans and administrators to give our graduation's student commencement address.
Finally, for the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation's top colleges are featuring women as commencement speakers.
" In a 2014 commencement speech at the University of Southern California, he offered a similar piece of advice: "Don't just follow the trend.
There, the network's big story was prominently displayed: Mr. Trump had complained of unfair treatment in a commencement address to Coast Guard graduates.
The college's commencement has served as her platform twice before at major turning points in her life, starting almost half a century ago.
Most famously, Smith volunteered to pay off the student loans of Morehouse College's entire graduating class while delivering their commencement address in May.
The president's remarks were sure to overshadow what was intended as a commencement ceremony for prisoners who had graduated a prison reform program.
The secondary commencement ceremony was established to recognize the unique backgrounds of Latino students in a setting that would feel inclusive to them.
For instance, his Coast Guard commencement speech was swallowed up by the news that we've now got a special counsel to investigate … everything.
Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to continue work on Facebook, returning this year to give a commencement speech to new Harvard graduates.
In a 2017 Harvard commencement speech, the entrepreneur says that shortly after launching Facebook, companies were giving him offers to buy the company.
Graduating student Andrea Lorei holds a sign in protest during the 125th Stanford University commencement ceremony on June 12, 2016, in Stanford, California.
In the middle of the commencement ceremony, Brian Swift, president of the Class of 22016, says a few words about his fallen classmate.
At her own commencement ceremonies in June 1969, Clinton — then Hillary Rodham — addressed her fellow graduates as the school's first-ever student speaker.
In the summer that follows her commencement, as she and two besties hostel-hop across Europe, they text, FaceTime and post to Instagram.
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at the Alumni Exercises at Harvard's 216th commencement exercises on May 22016, 2100 (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)Facebook"Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is bad for the environment, bad for the economy, and it puts our children's future at risk," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Getting the word out What we need in our lives: Fewer boring, conventional commencement speeches; more exciting, spoken-word performances, like this Harvard grad's.
President Barack Obama delivered a commencement address at the Air Force Academy on Thursday — not really an occasion for a big partisan political speech.
They're part of an exclusive group of music legends Berklee students put on a private show for the three superstars the night before commencement.
"Every principle behind the rule of law requires the commencement of a process now to make this president a former one," the piece concludes.
Before the merriment of commencement commences, I hope that your years with us here at Rydell have prepared you for the challenges you face.
SUNDAY, MAY 253 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
A week later he'll speak at Rutgers University's 250th anniversary commencement ceremony, held on the public research university's campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
SUNDAY, MAY 21 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
The Brooklyn College Art Department presents the 2017 MFA candidates' thesis exhibition Commencement, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon.
SUNDAY, MAY 12 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
Now, 12 years later, Zuckerberg will be giving the commencement address to Harvard's class of 2017 and nabbing an honorary degree in the process.
Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney on Saturday took a thinly veiled shot at Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, warning against "demagogues" in a commencement address.
This time, Clinton took a swing at our current president while making a speech at Yale's Class Day, part of the school's commencement weekend.
It all began on commencement day in 1989 when Laura Hotchkiss Brown and four friends unfurled a banner across the face of Butler Library.
SUNDAY, MAY 1 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
SUNDAY, MAY 228 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard commencement speech centered around how we can improve life through big projects, equal opportunity and building both local and global community.
When she gave a commencement speech over the weekend at Yale, which has a tradition of funny hats, she brandished a black Russian hat.
The legendary actor gave a commencement speech at Kent State University graduation recently, and he wrapped things up in the most unbelievably wonderful way.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was to participate in commencement at the UC Davis School of Law, but recovering from shoulder surgery forced her to cancel.
SUNDAY, MAY 20400 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
During his commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, Cook praised technology's role in "remaking society," but also warned about letting it go unchecked.
That's the twofold reason he will not be the commencement speaker at his 17-year-old daughter Malia Obama's high school graduation this year.
The university had in the past held similar black graduation ceremonies for undergraduate students, and already had an additional commencement ceremony for Latinx students.
"I thought it was a really inappropriate decision," graduate Laura Rathburn, who joined protestors in walking out on Pence's commencement address, told the Star.
Reliance Jio today announced some changes to its Jio Welcome Offer, which it had launched with the commencement of its commercial services last month.
SUNDAY, MAY 1 ** SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly delivers commencement address and receives honorary degree at Syracuse University.
Speakers cited tried and true rules for commencement speeches to explain why they will not talk about the man everyone else is talking about.
And yet Friday, Clinton appeared in front of the Wellesley College Class of 2017 and delivered a confident, and at times political, commencement speech.
Cruise ship company Celebrity Cruises has announced the commencement of legal same-sex marriages onboard their ships, officiated by the captain in international waters.
Finally, Obama criticized the actions of the students of Rutgers University for blocking speech from Condoleeza Rice from giving a commencement speech in 2014.
"So I missed the commencement, but after the auditorium cleared out, my close friends threw me my own little graduation," he told Select All.
Rapper Lil Pump will not be replacing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the 2019 Harvard commencement speaker, the university confirmed to The Hill Monday.
Soul sisters In a year dominated by tales of sisterhood, survivorship and #MeToo, women are dominating as commencement speakers at the nation's biggest schools.
"The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah unearthed Donald Trump's 2004 Wagner College commencement speech, poking fun at how Trump encouraged graduates to overcome barriers.
"If you're anything like I was on graduation day, maybe you're not feeling so fearless," he said, speaking at Duke University's commencement on Sunday.
Harvard University announced on Tuesday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the featured speaker at the institution's 366th commencement on May 25, 2017.

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