Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker made headlines prior to the current NFL season for a commencement speech he made at Benedictine ...

For example, I had a phase where ... Tom Brokaw said it was the very best commencement speech he had ever heard, and of course I believed this. And it was much easier to construct than this ...

See the partial transcript and watch the video. Atul Gawande's 2012 speech at Williams College Pushing beyond the tired "take risks!" commencement cliché, the surgeon, writer, and activist took a ...

We have four speeches/video messages for the graduates. The first is from Dr. Tina Pittman Wagers, a Teaching Professor in the department who has emceed our in-person ceremony for the past several ...

Here's a quick list of some of the most memorable speeches of this graduation season: From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly ...

“You have the power to stand for and fight for and vote for healthier conditions that will create a healthier society... Use your education to begin to heal our afflictions.” “Take the torch ...

In this short video, we look at commencement speeches, from Steve Jobs to Whoopi Goldberg, digging into the psychology of it, its gender and cultural undertones, and ultimately trying to discern ...

Leading by example, they urged their peers at graduation ... Speaker Allie Chu described how the act of writing a genuinely vulnerable graduation speech posed a deep challenge for her.

His comments during the commencement address were widely criticized for their insensitivity and discriminatory nature. The speech ... Butker's remarks as a prime example of the harmful rhetoric ...

Not everything that happens to us happens because of us' — Sheryl Sandberg's 2016 speech at UC Berkeley During the Facebook COO's deeply personal commencement speech about resilience at UC ...

We have four speeches/video messages for the graduates. The first is from Dr. Heidi Day, a Teaching Professor in the department who received the Boulder Faculty Assembly's (BFA) 2020 Excellence in ...

However, he put himself in the midst of controversy at the 2024 Benedictine College graduation with his controversial speech ...