One lesson discussed by
many graduation speakers is to trust that the dots of these random occurrences will always connect.
Graduation speakers also included Undergraduate Foundation Department Adjunct Assistant Professor Andrew Lenaghan, who was named Distingished Teacher (2015 - 16), and elected student speakers Matthew Boker (M.Arch.»
There have been some
interesting graduation speaker choices this year: President Obama at the University of California, Irvine; actor Ed Helms at Cornell University, former New York Times editor Jill Abramson at Wake Forest University.
Like
most graduation speakers my main qualification would seem to be that I am one of the few people who are even more clueless about what is going on in your lives than your parents and your professors.
From the encouragement of big
name graduation speakers, to sound TED Talk advice and remembering those who are no longer with us, here are 11 examples of words of wisdom from the pages of Entrepreneur.
An article highlighting 2018
graduation speakers at top business schools mentions David Rubenstein, who will deliver the Tuck Investiture address June 9.
Lesley University
Announces Graduation Speakers Boston Herald, 4/29/13 «Graduates at Lesley's two grad schools will be addressed by honorary degree recipients Paul Reville, former Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and television journalist and humanitarian Rev. Liz Walker.»
* Petitioners also challenge the ruling of the District Court that the removal of Fraser's name from the ballot
for graduation speaker violated his due process rights because that sanction was not indicated as a potential punishment in the school's disciplinary rules.
Graduation speakers also included Professor of Fashion Design Adrienne Jones, who was named Distinguished Teacher (2017 - 18) and was honored with a medal designed by Andreas Haji - Georgi (B.I.D.» 17), and elected student speakers David Cutler (B.F.A. Communications Design» 17) and Maria Gabriela Gonzalez Rausell (M.S. Urban Placemaking and Management» 17).
It's a little depressing to be
a graduation speaker because on each occasion you're at least a year older and all the graduates are, of course, the same age.
It was not altogether surprising that President Donald Trump will be Liberty University's
graduation speaker.
Current students were angered by the choice of Mitt Romney for the 2012
graduation speaker.
Last year, for example, he blasted a decision by the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health to invite controversial American leader Linda Sarsour to be
a graduation speaker, charging her with anti-Semitism.
Le Moyne College has recently been through a couple of controversies lately, first about incidents related to its annual «Dolphy Day» student celebration, and then over its choice of Cardinal Timothy Dolan as
its graduation speaker.
One student tipped back her head, revealing a graduation cap that read, on the top, «#Not
my graduation speaker.»
Gloria Steinem was
the graduation speaker... she had been invited by my friend Brenda Feigen, who was then a graduating senior.