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 ...
Summer is just on the horizon, which means it's graduation season. And while no one loves sitting through long ceremonies, an amusing, heartfelt or inspiring commencement speech can bring a little joy ...
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 ...
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 ...
HBCUs everywhere are encourage to submit their commencement speech videos and more. HBCU Week NOW is expanding its content to build a digital collection of HBCU commencement speeches and recruitment ...
All across America, commencement speakers this spring are pondering what to write and how to address graduation audiences. Students have finished their high school careers. College students have ...
For many college seniors, whose high school celebrations were upended by the pandemic, this year was their first time to experience the time-honored rituals of graduation: jubilant crowds, caps tossed ...
A past commencement speech given by Harrison Butker is being re-examined in the wake of his controversial address at Benedictine College last weekend. The Chiefs kicker’s address last year to ...
It's that time of year, where college graduates are heading off into the world and everyone from Arianna Huffington to President Obama are tasked with the job to inspire them to fix our broken world.
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 ...