Congratulations. After four years of hard work, you—or your son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter, or neighbor or niece, or other sort of ramen eater—are graduating from college. It wasn’t ...

From the robed procession to the conferring of degrees to the keynote speech meant to inspire students to reflect on their lives and contributions to society, graduation ceremonies are a grand and ...

New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, public intellectual, and high-profile campus figure. A social psychologist ...

When he delivered his address to Northwestern Engineering’s undergraduate Class of 2025, Matthew Skaruppa (’04) spoke mostly about an unexpected subject. “Since this is an engineering convocation, I'm ...

Rutgers University officials canceled the speech alumnus Rami Elghandour was set to deliver at this week’s School of Engineering convocation. But, he delivered his remarks anyway — on YouTube.

Generations have heard Kermit the Frog’s voice from the youngest of ages. So what did the puppet, created by 1960 University of Maryland alumnus Jim Henson, have to say to a graduating class full of ...

You know who you are. When someone you like is censored, you get up in arms. But when the other side is muzzled, you sit on your hands. It’s the oldest trick in the hypocrite’s playbook: free speech ...

Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last ...