Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen will address the Grinnell College Class of 2011 at the college’s 165th Exercises of Commencement, on Mon., May 23, at 10 a.m. on Central Campus.
The University of Maryland will welcome DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), as the 2011 Spring Commencement speaker. The fourth leader in the union's 41-year history, Smith represents approximately 1,700 NFL players in the collective bargaining union, which is currently negotiating a billion-dollar collective bargaining agreement with league owners.
Best-selling author, reporter, New York Times columnist and three time Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate from Tulane University at its 2011 Commencement, which will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 12 in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of the City of New York, will address graduates of the George Washington University at its Commencement on the National Mall Sunday, May 15, 2011.
Leading motivational speaker on resilience, self-esteem, and family relationships to address graduates on June 12.
Academy Award winning actress and activist Marlee Matlin will be the speaker at the 2010 commencement ceremony for Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Fischler School of Education and Human Services. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 12 in the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., a leading health policy advisor in the Obama administration, will address graduates at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s 115th convocation on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
MacArthur “Genius” Fellow William E. Strickland, Jr., President & CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, will deliver the Babson College commencement address during ceremonies on May 15, 2010, on the Babson campus.
More than 200 individuals will achieve that goal on Saturday, May 15, 2010, when the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USU, graduates the class of 2010.
New York University School of Medicine will hold its 168th annual graduation ceremony on May 13, 2010, at 10 a.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Maria Bartiromo, host of CNBC's “Closing Bell,” host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated “Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo” an alumna and trustee of New York University will address the class of 2010 .
hancellor John Mauceri has announced that Peter Bogdanovich, director of such films as THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, WHAT’S UP, DOC?, PAPER MOON and MASK, and Angus MacLachlan, writer of such films as TATER TOMATER, JUNEBUG and STONE (due out May 7 and starring Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich), will speak at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) commencement ceremonies for college and high school graduates, respectively, on Saturday, May 29.
Canadian officer served as commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda
Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Steitz will return to his alma mater to deliver the commencement address at Lawrence University’s graduation ceremonies June 13.
National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach to address graduates
Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow, a graduate of the Vassar College class of 1985 and a member of the college’s Board of Trustees since 2004, will deliver the address during the 146th Vassar College commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23, 2010.
The 40th anniversaries of the deadly college student protests at Kent State and Jackson State are being commemorated by the creation of a mural at Central Connecticut State University by two faculty members who took part in those protests and were eyewitnesses to the violence.
Joni Eareckson Tada, founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center whose vision is to accelerate Christian ministry in the disability community will serve as keynote speaker for the Biola University undergraduate 2010 commencement ceremony in May.
Economics Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen of Harvard will give Saint Michael's College commencement address to graduates wearing environmentally "green" graduation robes.
Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., M.D., will address the graduating classes at the 186th annual commencement exercises for Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson College of Graduate Studies. He will receive an honorary doctor of science degree during the Monday, May 24th ceremonies at 10:30 a.m., at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on South Broad Street in Philadelphia.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, author and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, will deliver two free public lectures May 14 (Friday) at the University of North Texas, including the keynote address at the doctoral commencement ceremony.
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