A good commencement speech is not aimed at posterity, proffered to everyone for all time. Instead, it is a temporary moment in which a speaker brings a community together in the moment they share ...

Something funny has happened to the familiar commencement address in the past 10 years. That something is YouTube. Steve Jobs' 2005 address at Stanford, to take just one example, has been viewed ...

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It is commencement season, with universities and colleges in Houston and Texas celebrating the accomplishments of college students earning everything form associates degrees to doctorates.

As campuses grow more polarized, universities weigh speech, protest and political backlash at commencement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Duff delivers the Northeastern University's 2026 Commencement Speech on April 29, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts; Hugh ...