Sentences with phrase «commencement speech at»

Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft recently gave a commencement speech at the University of Southern California.

«My family and I were dreading Rudy Guiliani's commencement speech at Middlebury College in Vermont.

His personal philosophy and lessons from this life of social change, along with a full overview of his diverse experience, was the subject of a commencement speech at the University of Technology in Sydney in 2006.

In a 2014 commencement speech at Boston College, Secretary of State John Kerry said, «Ninety - seven percent of the world's scientists tell us this is urgent.»

I'm especially honored to be giving the commencement speech at Green Mountain College for at least two reasons.

Clinton was the first student to deliver a commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969.

September 8 - November 13, 2016 President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 commencement speech at the University of Michigan, laid out his plan titled the Great Society.

In a recent commencement speech at Hampton University, he said, «With iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.»

Also, the ad should come in handy for President Obama who has recently said while making a commencement speech at Hampton University that he isn't aware of how to use an iPad.

Amid all of this, Barra gave a commencement speech at the University of Michigan and was named one of Time magazine's most influential people.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's commencement speech at Bethune - Cookman University, a historically black institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, should've been a generally unremarkable affair, given little notice besides its mark as her first graduation address.

During this year's commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence College, Fareed Zakaria said, «It is the act of writing that forces me to think through them [ideas] and sort them out.»

The actor recently made the commencement speech at Tulane University, offering sage advice to its graduates

She made an incredible commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania reminding students, «You have the inclination and the ability to change your communities, and to change your slice of the world.

President Obama, in his commencement speech at Rutgers University on May 15, 2016

Fagan delivered a commencement speech at her alma mater, University of Colorado, this May, in which she elucidated the danger of caring more about perception than reality, about living for applause, about being addicted to achievement.

But at the start of her yearlong project, she vows to say yes to all of them: She laughs alongside Kimmel, gets real with Oprah, and gives a commencement speech at her alma mater, Dartmouth.

Activists protesting Hillary Clinton's commencement speech at Medgar Evers College over the Clintons» perceived failings in Haiti.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, gave the commencement speech at Le Moyne College on Sunday.

He gave the commencement speech at RCC while still in his early 20s, imploring new graduates that the American dream was -LSB-...]

He gave the commencement speech at RCC while still in his early 20s, imploring new graduates that the American dream was still alive and to believe in it.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the commencement speech at St. Lawrence University this weekend.

«We will abide by the decision, but it's interesting that the judge did not go along with public employees who tried to tell the court there is no financial crisis,» the governor told reporters (including NY1's Grace Rauh) after delivering the commencement speech at Bronx Community College.

I got to do the commencement speech at my alma mater in May of 2014, and I told them that of all the courses I took there, the most life - altering for me was my involvement in the college choir.

For instance, while Page was working for Trump, in July 2016, he traveled to Moscow to give a commencement speech at a Russian university, which certainly would have raised some red flags at the bureau.

A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to «leave before you leave.»

«Big opportunities in life have to be seized,» he said in a commencement speech at Georgia State.

Again, as he said last week at his commencement speech at Howard University, he had no expectations that his election would signal a post racial society.

«I quit my job,» he [told graduates at a commencement speech at his] alma mater in 1999.

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

Tech entrepreneur Drew Houston spoke about the importance of obsessing over your dream during his 2013 commencement speech at MIT.

Social entrepreneur Melinda Gates spoke about the importance of making ethical choices and leaving a mark on humanity during her 2013 commencement speech at Duke University.

«If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,» Jobs said during a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.

Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered the commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday, May 26.

Not exact matches

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the graduation speech at Stanford University, and delivered one of the best commencement addresses of all time.

Finally, Steve Jobs offered plenty of advice on life, death and pursuing your dreams in his 2005 commencement speech made to a graduating class at Stanford.

In a 2007 commencement speech given at the USC School of Law, Charlie Munger said:

Mr. Bernanke said that the near - term outlook remains murky but nonetheless put himself firmly in the optimists» camp in a commencement speech last month at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts.

CNN: Romney to deliver Liberty University commencement speech Mitt Romney will deliver the commencement address at the evangelical Christian university led by Jerry Falwell, Jr., Liberty University said in a Thursday post to their website.

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Bolds is teammates with four - star LB Drew Singleton at Paramus Catholic, where Jim Harbaugh is scheduled to give the commencement speech this year.

Harbaugh is giving the commencement speech to seniors at the school on Thursday, after he hosts a big satellite camp there on Wednesday.

In his 2005 commencement speech to Stanford grads, the amazing Steve Jobs, a college dropout himself and who passed away this week at just 56, talked about how lucky he was that he got fired from Apple — crisis can lead to opportunity — and how lucky he was to do work that he loved:

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.

President Obama addressed the sexual assault scandal in the military during his speech at the Naval Academy commencement address.

President Barack Obama used his speech at Rutgers University's commencement today to praise the 250 - year - old school, while slamming the «anti-intellectualism» in American politics.

Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas delivered the speech at Wilson Commencement Academy on Genesee St. WXXI News presented the speech live on WXXI - AM 1370 and online through our live streaming service at WXXINews.org which you can always access by clicking on the Listen Live button in the upper left hand corner of the page.

Also at 3 p.m., Hunter College holds its spring graduation ceremony, with a commencement address from Arianna Huffington, a speech from Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and a (not so) surprise marriage proposal, the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.