Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of Hollywood's biggest names will soon be taking a different kind of center stage: the commencement stage. With graduation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina is no stranger to celebrity guest speakers at university commencement ceremonies. Between 2020-2024, Duke ...

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said Wednesday he was “very intentional” in the comments he made during a polarizing college ...

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 ...

Kermit the Frog practices his University of Maryland commencement address in College Park on May 22. (Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post) Regarding Matt Bai’s May 25 Sunday Opinion column, ...

Stanford commencement speeches gradually shifted from a collective to a more personal framing between 2016 and 2026. Speakers now use “I” nearly three times as often as “we.” Ten years ago, “we” led ...

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 ...

Some of Hollywood's biggest names will soon be taking a different kind of center stage: the commencement stage. With graduation season around the corner, several celebrities have been tapped as ...

Hilary Duff, Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Jackman are among the celebrities imparting their words of wisdom to 2026 college graduates Several musicians, athletes, actors and authors have been tapped ...