We have tried to be fairly comprehensive in announcing New England college commencements in three posts: The Greatest Lecture Series on Earth? and The Show Goes On and Commencements …… Read more »
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Commencements … Last Call …
New England Commencements … University of Connecticut schools and colleges will hold separate commencements on Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8. Speakers include: National Science Foundation Director France A…. Read more »
Another Swing Through Spring Commencements
Cassidy U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy will keynote Husson University’s 116th commencement on Sunday, May 10 at 2 p.m. at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine…. Read more »
Rounding Out 2015 Commencements: Authors, Entertainers, Pols Among Recently Announced Speakers
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anyone who thinks higher education’s vitality can be reduced to numbers of degrees granted and college rankings, needs to see the diversity and depth of New England’s… Read more »
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gabby Giffords, Senators King, Mitchell Among NE Commencement Speakers
Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, will keynote the undergraduate commencement of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, May… Read more »
From Malawi Leader to Guvs to Actor Redford, More Commencement Speakers at New England Colleges
Joyce Banda, former president of Malawi Naturalist and free-speech advocate Terry Tempest Williams will address the Unity College graduation on Saturday, May 9 at 1 p.m. in the Unity gym…. Read more »
Going Forward on Going Forward: Cue the Commencement Speaker Announcements
Albright While parts of New England were digging out from several feet of snow, a few of the region’s colleges were naming their spring commencement speakers—and not surprisingly, some of… Read more »
Lawmakers, Authors, Entrepreneurs Among Newly Announced Commencement Speakers
Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns Jane Altes, former vice president for academic affairs and interim president of Empire State College, and Daniel B. Ginsberg, former assistant… Read more »
Your Chance to Listen in on the NSA … and Other Commencements
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander. General Electric aviation executive Mike Sims will address graduates at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. on the main quadrangle…. Read more »
Commencements: The Anchor, the Ambassador et al
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power. Judith S. Kaye, former chief judge of New York and of the Court of Appeals and now a lawyer with the Skadden firm,… Read more »