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 ...

You can’t ever predict when a virus will strike, how exactly it will spread. So while it has been months since George Saunders gave his convocation address to graduates of Syracuse University – where ...

On Monday, June 16, Sandra Oh shared an Instagram carousel featuring photos of herself delivering the commencement speech to Dartmouth College 2025 graduates “I never attended university myself. Only ...

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before. Megha Vemuri ...

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- A 6-year-old kindergarten student brought a room full of parents, teachers and fellow students to tears with a speech dedicated to his late mom, whom he described as his ...

As college graduates across the country turn their tassels to the left and step into a world full of possibilities — and uncertainties — this year's commencement speakers have given moving speeches ...

Later this month, University of Connecticut alum Rick Mastracchio will tell the engineering school's graduating seniors to reach for the stars (we hope) in a commencement speech from aboard the ...

The U.S. spends more on education than many other countries, yet it has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the world. The problems of education are complicated, and fixing them is a ...

A look at some of the commencement speakers this graduation season. June 1, 2013— -- intro: As high school and college seniors participate in their commencement ceremonies, a long list of ...

Losing a loved one is always upsetting, but for a child the experience can be both traumatic and devastating. Especially if, as is the case with the man in this story, the lost person is a parent.