Sentences with phrase «commencement speakers»

Chief Justice John Roberts gave a remarkable commencement speech last month: Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you.

Now Paul L. Caron at TaxProf Blog has a roundup of commencement speakers at law schools nationwide.

«Folos: Commencement Speakers and Webby Awards Main Bar Complaints Rather Than Criminal Prosecution Likely for Bush Lawyers»

Press Release: Pace University Announces Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients: Leaders in Law, Education, the Arts, Business and Philanthropy

From Bill Nye to Barack Obama, commencement speakers across the country encouraged the class of 2015 to «change the world» by changing the planet.

Saar, who explores history and identity through sculpture and mixed - media works, is among a handful of Black artists invited to serve as commencement speakers this spring.

Commencement speakers are being announced at a daily pace, many hailing from business and industry, government, health - care and entrepreneurial backgrounds.

Commencement Speakers Unbowed by Student Slings and Arrows Bloomberg Businessweek, 5/21/14 «At Harvard University, the dean of the Graduate School of Education rejected a request by some students and faculty members to rescind an invitation to Michael Johnston, a state senator in Colorado, who some found objectionable because of his stance on education reform.»

College - admissions officers look for «leadership potential» in applicants, while commencement speakers at all levels address the «future leaders» of America.

«Commencement speakers at CUNY are selected independently by the individual campuses, and the Board [of Trustees] does not approve the process or have any say in the matter,» said Cuomo spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

Over the years, AUN has had commencement speakers of international renown.

I would note that we don't have a baseline for controversial commencement speakers.

I just don't know if we should take into consideration that not all commencement speakers generate the passion that Pence does.

Today's youth seem to share that much formation — a tribute, no doubt, to the efforts of Mr. Rogers, school guidance counselors, high school valedictorians and commencement speakers.

In these cases in particular, there is everywhere a process whereby commencement speakers are chosen.

The intolerance displayed by faculty and students over commencement speakers has to be brought to an end.

Jacqui Shine argues that protesting commencement speakers shows that the graduates have in fact fulfilled the College's mission:

I wonder how many of the thousands of commencement speakers, who have over the years magnanimously informed the graduating class that it is now up to them to solve the problems of the world, have realized that they included the implicit proviso: to solve those problems according to our ideals and our methods, to succeed where we have failed, to take the weight of guilt that we can no longer bear.

According to Falwell, Beck's presence at the podium will «continue Liberty's long tradition of Commencement speakers who are making a positive impact on society in all walks of life.»

There has been much tsk - tsking this college graduation season about students protesting their administration - chosen commencement speakers («College: where kids become leftists,» May 25).

Several 2016 commencement speakers — from actors to politicians — have admonished the Republican presidential nominee, mentioning him either directly by name or with references to his policies.

Mrs. Bush's sense of humor helped make her popular, but her selection as a commencement speaker at Wellesley College in 1990 sparked a debate on what defines feminism.

«To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contravenes what we have been taught over the last four years at Wellesley.»

Consider, for example, how often you learn that a controversial commencement speaker was disinvited to speak after students (and, in some cases, faculty) objected.

«It is my responsibly as a commencement speaker to prepare you for what awaits you in the future.

She was even the commencement speaker at MIT Charm School (yes there is such a thing).

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear a commencement speaker.

Though a well - known commencement speaker is always exciting, I was displeased to discover Boehner's voting record on fiscal issues.

Steel also noted that an editorial in the student newspaper heralded the school's choice of commencement speaker.

That Shine thinks that students ought to be given the occasion to ask hard questions of their commencement speaker is part of the problem.

And because it is about the graduates, it shouldn't be about the commencement speaker, even if that's what some of them want.

Defending her successors, a Smith College alumna argues that protesting a commencement speaker or protesting at commencement fulfills the goals of a Smith Education.

But when a commencement speaker gives her address without any opportunity for those who disagree with her to talk back, the only avenue left is protest, either before the speech or on its occasion.

Let the college president or provost explain that the vocal incivility of a few has deprived this year's graduatse of the privilege of hearing from a commencement speaker who was deemed worthy by those responsible for according that honor.

IMF Director Christine Lagarde's withdrawal as Smith College's commencement speaker is the latest in a series of high - profile commencement follies aptly described by Harvard's Ruth Wisse as «The Closing of the Collegiate Mind.»

She said that something was seriously wrong with feminism today, when a group of Wellesley seniors could repudiate Barbara Bush as their commencement speaker simply because she had chosen to be a full - time wife and mother.

If, as the national media has reported, some Liberty University students absent themselves from their graduation ceremony tomorrow morning in protest of the school's choice of a Mormon commencement speaker, their absence isn't likely to be noticed.

So get up off of the mess of accumulated cushions you call a couch, because this is your college beer graduation, and I'm your commencement speaker.

nobody beats our (class of» 96) commencement speaker.

Paramus Catholic, who will have Jim Harbaugh as a guest commencement speaker this summer, tweeted out a flyer of the schools that...

Last week I got be the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2017 at the school where I teach.

Clinton is scheduled to be the commencement speaker at Medgar Evers College, which has raised objections from several members of the Haitian community who plan to protest the speech and are pushing the college president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invitation.

He was the school's 163rd commencement speaker.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be the commencement speaker at St. John Fisher College on May 9.

Bloomberg L.P. founder Michael Bloomberg, former New York City mayor, will be the spring commencement speaker at Michigan University and has been recommended as the recipient of the honorary degree Doctor of Laws.

Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman, confirmed that the 2016 Democratic nominee will be the commencement speaker at the all - women college in May.

Dr. Jedidiah Ballard, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, served as the commencement speaker for his hometown alma mater Columbia Falls High School.

The class selected surgeon Elizabeth Dreesen, MD, as commencement speaker.

Her accomplishments have also been recognized by the university community with her selection as the University's December 2009 commencement speaker and her service on the 2008 chancellor search committee at UNC - Chapel Hill.

Black Panther star / your boyfriend Chadwick Boseman was the commencement speaker at Howard University's graduation ceremony yesterday.