Commencement season is upon us again, as those long in the tooth and sometimes in wind, impart their wisdom to graduates. What separates the good speeches from the bad and the ugly? Emotion, humor and ...

Commencement speeches are meant to inspire young folks concluding their academic careers as they take their hard-earned degrees and embark on their professional journeys. But that’s not exactly what ...

College graduation season this year is nearly here — and scores of schools already have announced their commencement speakers ahead of the special occasion. As students of higher education finish up ...

About 30 students left their seats Sunday as Jerry Seinfeld prepared to deliver the commencement speech at Duke University's graduation ceremony in North Carolina. The walkout started when University ...

"Harrison Butker, Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Champion Kicker, stood firm in his convictions during his powerful commencement address at Benedictine College," the site read. "With courage and ...

President Joe Biden is expected to deliver the commencement speech at Howard University this month, a historically Black university in Washington. The commencement is scheduled for May 13. The White ...

Rollins College's Elizabeth Bonker urged fellow graduates to use their voices. A college valedictorian who has not spoken since the age of 15 months due to autism delivered a moving commencement ...

Graduation is a big deal, but as students across the country learned over the past few weeks, it’s maybe a bigger deal depending on who is giving the big commencement speech to help usher them into ...

Remote-graduation season finished out with commencement speeches from New York power couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez for the New York Public Schools graduation ceremony. “Jen and I are both ...

A graduating student at Duke University faced heavy criticism after delivering a commencement address that shared “striking similarities” with a Harvard University graduation speech from 2014. During ...

WASHINGTON — A commencement address by the No. 2 Senate Republican was canceled Friday after opposition from students at the historically black university where he was scheduled to speak. The ...