Marsha Johnson Evans, national executive director of Girl Scouts of the USA, will deliver her commencement address, "Your Best Foot Forward," at the College of Saint Benedict on Saturday, May 20, at 2 p.m. in the Clemens Field House of the Haehn Campus Center.
The Anderson School announced today that NASDAQ president Alfred Berkeley has been chosen as this year's speaker for commencement on Friday, June 16.
Melanie Zeck, a Kokomo (Ind.) senior, will relate how values learned from "Sesame Street" characters can guide college graduates in a speech she will give at Indiana State University's 129th commencement on May 6.
More than 500 undergraduate students will receive their degrees, and nine distinguished individuals will be honored when Trinity College holds its 174th Commencement on May 21.
Writer Ellen L. Gilchrist and former Clinton administration chief of staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III will share the honor of sending the University of Arkansas Class of 2000 into the world at this year's commencement on May 13, and both will receive honorary degrees.
Georgia Governor Roy Barnes will deliver the address at the University of Georgia School of Law's commencement exercises on May 20.
Mary Patterson McPherson, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be the commencement speaker at Mount Holyoke College's 163rd commencement ceremonies on May 21.
Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes will be the speaker at Grove City College's 120th commencement on May 13.
Neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson, a once-troubled youth who is now director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and author of such inspirational books as "Gifted Hands," will speak at Ursinus College Commencement on May 13.
St. Lawrence University's commencement ceremonies will be held on campus on May 21, at the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle, or in Appleton Arena in the event of inclement weather.
On May 6, 2000, the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University will host a conference on the ways that membership in multiple societies challenges traditional notions of citizenship and nationhood, assimilation and identity.
Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer and social critic, will be Scripps College's commencement speaker on May 14.
Michigan First Lady Michelle Engler will be the featured speaker at Northern Michigan University commencement exercises, April 29, and she will also receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree from NMU.
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist David S. Broder will serve as the commencement speaker for the class of 2000 during Muhlenberg College's 152nd Commencement Exercises, May 21.
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn will speak at one of Texas A&M University's commencement exercises May 12.
The University of Washington has selected Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the U.S., to be the commencement speaker in ceremonies to be held June 10.
Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland, College Park's May commencement.
Lech Walesa, workers' rights advocate, former president of Poland, and the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will deliver the commencement address at Middlebury College's graduation ceremony and he will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
The first woman to summit three of the world's 8,000 meter peaks, Charlotte Fox, will speak at the Hollins University commencement; she will be sharing insight about her ordeal on Mt. Everest during the three-week period in which climbers annually scale the mountain.
Margaret Urquhart, chief operations officer and executive vice president of Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp., will deliver the address at the Babcock Graduate School of Management's annual hooding ceremony on May 14.
Donna E. Shalala, secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, will deliver the North Carolina State University Commencement address on Saturday, May 20, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Raleigh.
An all-day conference on West Nile Encephalitis will be held at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Saturday, April 29; the event is free and is open to the public.
Leading Christian author and commentator Charles W. Colson will speak to graduates and their families at commencement ceremonies May 6 and 7 at Wheaton College.
Georgia's senior U.S. senator, Paul Coverdell, will speak at the University of Georgia's spring semester commencement on May 13.
Sir Brian Urquhart, a British former U.N. undersecretary, will deliver the address at Hamilton College's 188th commencement on May 21; his talk is entitled, "Nationalism, Globalism and Common Sense."
United Press International White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas has accepted Ohio University's invitation to speak at two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on June 10.
The University of Michigan will award honorary degrees to William Ferris, David Halberstam, David Hermelin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Lawrence Kasdan, and Martinus J.G. Veltman.
Two individuals who have made significant contributions to national and international financial and scientific communities, James D. Wolfensohn and Rita R. Colwell, will speak at Michigan State University's spring commencement ceremonies, May 5.
David Halberstam, author and journalist, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, musician and historian, will give commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies on April 28-30.
Eavan Boland, described as one of Ireland's most influential poets, will be the speaker at Bucknell's 150th Commencement on May 21.
A list of Spring 2000 commencement speakers at several colleges and universities across the nation.
United States Congresswoman Diana DeGette, a 1979 Colorado College alumna, will speak during Colorado College's 2000 commencement ceremony scheduled for Monday, May 22, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on campus.
Helen Thomas, White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, will deliver the commencement address for the University of San Francisco's College of Arts and Sciences on May 19.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Commencement 2000, May 13.
United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, will give the address May 20 at Southern Methodist University's 85th annual commencement ceremony.
John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., a leader in Internet networking, will deliver Wake Forest University's commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 15.
Herbert W. Boyer, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who co-founded Genentech, Inc., the company considered the pioneer in the field of biotechnology, will be the main speaker at the University of Pittsburgh's 2000 commencement ceremonies, April 30.
Geraldine Laybourne, the CEO of Oxygen Media and among the most prominent women in both the management and creative sides of media in the U.S. today, will deliver Vassar College's 136th commencement address on Sun., May 21.
Kevin O'Connor, CEO and co-founder of DoubleClick, the world's first web advertising network, will speak at the Spring Commencement of the University of Michigan College of Engineering on Sat., April 29.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi A. Annan, will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame's 155th Commencement on Sun., May 21.
Legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite, award-winning actress Julie Andrews, and underwater explorer Robert Ballard will be among the speakers for the 2000-2001 season of Southern Methodist University's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series.
Gerard 't Hooft, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present "A Confrontation with Infinity" at Boston University's Metcalf Science Center on Tues., April 25, 2000.
Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, will deliver the commencement address at her alma mater, Agnes Scott College, on Saturday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m.
The interdisciplinary conference "Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, His World," will take place at Hofstra University, April 27 to 29; speakers include Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson and the author of "The Wilde Album."
The 10th Annual Purdue University Bug Bowl on April 15 and 16 will be filled with as much action, including cricket spitting and roach racing, as a Boilermaker football game.
Students in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration take over every aspect of the world's oldest and largest teaching hotel, Hotel Ezra Cornell, where they wine, dine, house and cater to some of the biggest names in the hospitality industry.
Deborah Daro will deliver the 10th Louise Ranier Makofsky Lecture in Child Welfare, and Myra Hettleman will be honored with the 10th Annual Louise Ranier Makofsky Award in Child Welfare.
Smith College panelists will join stand-up comic-turned-talk-show-host Bill Maher in staging a mock version of "Politically Incorrect," in order to discuss race relations, multiculturalism and campus diversity.
An international colloquium, "Berlioz: Past, Present, Future," at Smith College is the first in a series of events around the world designed to honor Berlioz on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Cornell students will spend their spring break (March 23-25) stabilizing the isolation ward, a neglected, historically important, building on the island between lower Manhattan and Jersey City that once was the gateway to America for millions of immigrants.
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