Stephen King to Deliver Commencement Address at Vassar College
Vassar CollegeWriter Stephen King will deliver Vassar College's 137th commencement address on Sunday, May 20.
Writer Stephen King will deliver Vassar College's 137th commencement address on Sunday, May 20.
Oscar-winning Director Ang Lee and Educator Ruth Simmons To Speak at NYU's 169th Commencement
Laurie Garrett, the only writer to receive the Peabody, Polk and Pulitzer awards for journalism, will address students, faculty and guests of the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) during ceremonies honoring the Class of 2001.
United States Ambassador to Thailand Richard E. Hecklinger will receive an honorary degree from his alma mater, St. Lawrence University, May 20.
James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will be the commencement speaker at The University of Tulsa's 107th commencement on Saturday, May 5. More than 600 students will receive diplomas during TU's graduation ceremony which begins at 2 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Center, located at Eleventh and Harvard.
Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will be the speaker at Mount Holyoke College's 164th commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 27. Additional honorary degrees will be bestowed.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, renowned gospel singer and folklorist who has devoted her life to promoting the African-American gospel music tradition, will address Barnard College's Class of 2001 at the 108th Commencement on Tuesday, May 15, on Lehman Lawn at Barnard College, 117th Street and Broadway, (rain location: Levien Gymnasium, Columbia University).
Internationally recognized economist Dr. Lester C. Thurow addresses 276 Alma College degree candidates and their families and friends during Commencement ceremonies Saturday, April 21, on campus. Thurow speaks about "Living and Working in a Knowledge-Based Economy."
Giving commencements the personal touch has become a growing challenge, particularly for the nation's large research universities, such as the University at Albany.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will bestow honorary doctoral degrees on Vinton G. Cerf, known as the "Father of the Internet," entertainer and educator Bill Cosby, and renowned sociologist William Julius Wilson.
Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general and a member of the Class of 1960, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26, 2001.
Acclaimed novelist Toni Morrison will be the speaker at Smith College's 123rd commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20, 2001.
Ann Compton, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News.com, is the commencement speaker for Hollins University's 159th graduation ceremony in Roanoke, Virginia.
The Tuck School of Business is pleased to announce that Robert E. Rubin will address the centennial class of 2000 at their investiture ceremony on June 10. Mr. Rubin will also be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dartmouth President James Wright.
The members of the University of Michigan Medical School's 150th graduating class will embark on their medical careers June 9 with the words of the nation's genetic research leader, Francis Collins, echoing in their ears.
Pulitzer Prize-winning environmentalist E.O. Wilson to keynote Connecticut College graduation, May 27.
Benjamin S. Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon and author, advised the Ursinus Class of 2000 that success is about using your God-given talents, developing them to the extent that you lift up and become valuable to the people around you.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a six-time Olympic medalist in track and holder of world and Olympic records, will give the address when DePauw University awards more than 500 bachelor's degrees in its 107th Commencement on May 20.
Actress and School for the Arts alumna Olympia Dukakis will receive an honorary degree at Boston University's 127th commencement exercises on May 21; Tom Wolfe will deliver the BU commencement address.
Lewis University is honoring Philip J. Rock, chairman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, best known for his service in the Illinois State Senate where he held the position of president and majority leader longer than anyone in the state's history.
The Medical College of Wisconsin will honor a leading national advocate for the health and safety of children, two of its trustees and three distinguished faculty members at its 87th commencement exercises on May 20.
Actress Uta Hagen, glass artist Harvey K. Littleton and former Cargill chief executive officer Ernest S. Micek will deliver the "Charge to the Graduates" at University of Wisconsin, Madison, ceremonies May 20-21.
Thomas R. Reardon, President, AMA, told Colorado State University graduates that no matter what your field of study, your success is only going to be found in others, in serving others, in finding the good and the right and the noble in your situation and, then, in sharing it with another person.
George Tenet, the U.S. Director of Central Intelligence; U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and composer Philip Glass are among the featured speakers at Johns Hopkins University commencement ceremonies May 24-25.
Robert A. Skotheim, president of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., will speak at Gustavus Adolphus College's commencement.
Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and opera legend Barbara Conrad, both University of Texas at Austin distinguished alumni, will highlight the University's May 20 evening commencement ceremony.
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, a Democrat from Maine who recently brokered the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland, will deliver the address at Emory University's 155th commencement on May 15.
David Neff, executive editor of "Christianity Today" and "Books & Culture" magazines, will deliver the Samford University commencement address on May 20.
As one of the nation's foremost advocates for enhancing the lives of future generations through health and social service programs, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala will be the guest speaker at New York University School of Medicine's Commencement Day Exercise on May 11.
W. Ian Lipkin, a 1974 graduate of Sarah Lawrence, a physician and molecular neurobiologist will address the graduating class at Sarah Lawrence College's 71st commencement on May 19.
Sworn in two years ago as the 16th Surgeon General of the U.S., David Satcher will address the candidates for professional degrees when he delivers University of Maryland Baltimore's commencement address on May 26.
Rodrigo Rato, deputy prime minister of Spain and minister of the economy and Haas MBA from the class of 1974, will give the commencement address at this year's Haas graduation ceremonies on May 21.
University at Albany Professor John Delano, a nationally known geochemist who is working with NASA to investigate the origins of life, will be the featured speaker at UAlbany's 156th undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 21.
Approximately 2,000 Hofstra University students will take part in commencement activities, May 21 and 22. Speakers include Maurice R. Greenberg, Cy Coleman, Hon. Richard Conway Casey, Jeffrey Lyons, John H. Marburger III, and Raymond A. Jansen.
Vermont's U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders -- the country's only Independent representative in Congress -- will address 44 graduating seniors at Marlboro College's 53rd Commencement on May 14.
Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, innovative dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, and political and civil rights advocate Elizabeth Martinez at the College's 128th commencement on May 29.
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.
Dead Man Walking author and anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, broadcast journalist Bill Kurtis and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson will deliver addresses at the five graduation ceremonies of DePaul's Commencement 2000 weekend June 10 and 11 in Chicago.
The Rev. William J. Byron SJ, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Ethics at Georgetown University and rector of the Georgetown Jesuit Community, will deliver the commencement address at Saint John's University at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, in the Saint John's Abbey Church.
Best-selling author Tom Wolfe will deliver the address at Boston University's 127th commencement exercises Sunday, May 21, at 11 a.m.
The Anderson School announced today that NASDAQ president Alfred Berkeley has been chosen as this year's speaker for commencement on Friday, June 16.
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.
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.
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.
Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes will be the speaker at Grove City College's 120th commencement on May 13.
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.
Georgia Governor Roy Barnes will deliver the address at the University of Georgia School of Law's commencement exercises on May 20.
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.
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn will speak at one of Texas A&M University's commencement exercises May 12.
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.