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The commencement speech season is underway and recent grads are soaking up the advice and wisdom from speakers across the country. Last weekend, Michelle Obama spoke at Tuskegee University in Alabama, ...

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You can’t ever predict when a virus will strike, how exactly it will spread. So while it has been months since George Saunders gave his convocation address to graduates of Syracuse University – where ...

We're approaching graduation season again. So it seems like a fitting time to tell the story of the gifts Valerie de la Torre gave her children, Adam and Jessica, when they graduated from college. She ...

It’s that time of year when pomp and circumstance fills the air. Mortar boards and graduation gowns become June’s coolest fashion statement, and eager young minds look forward to the next chapter of ...

Commencement address season has, well, commenced. Every spring, on every college campus across the nation, wisdom is normally blooming. Not this year. Not in the middle of a global pandemic. But fear ...

Plans after graduation: Attend the Schreyer Honors College and Penn State to study engineering. What I think I’ll be doing in 10 years: Settled with a job, and possibly engaging in higher education.