graduation

Though I very much wish Sasha Obama could stay eight years old forever because that would mean we were in a time…

A high school valedictorian in Kentucky was barred from delivering his commencement address on Friday, after the…

In 2011, former Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi collected $32,000 for a speaking engagement at Rutgers…

On Saturday, April 30, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the commencement address at the…

In Mississippi, if you cheer at a graduation, you might catch a charge.

If you’ve ever sat through a valedictorian’s speech (in high school or college), you know that while their five…

“Brothers; brothers from other mothers; sisters; roommates; ‘roommates’; meemaws and papaws; Aunt Ronnys; Uncle…

On Friday, Mellody Hobson delivered USC’s commencement address during a downpour and asked the graduates to remember…

After a North Carolina high school student was sent home in tears on the last day of her senior year for wearing a…

A high school in Florida is charging parents $200 for "premium" seats with a better view of their child's…

On Thursday, Megan Sugg graduated almost a month early from Glen Burnie High School in Maryland. The occasion, which…

High schoolers at graduation tend to do all kinds of things to decorate their mortarboards. The words "Hi Mom" are…

Like cicadas, law school graduates working as bartenders, feral cats prowling the abandoned alleyways of Detroit,…

I graduated from college four years ago. I know four years probably seems like an infinitesimal blip to many readers…

Other than George Washington, George Washington Carver, Washington Irving, or Martha Washington, who’d be the best…

Here's a commencement speech by David McCullough Jr., an English teacher at a Massachusetts high school, who took…

"My fellow honorary degree recipients who I am so proud to be in the company of — we have an architect, and a…

It's the time of year when the internet is deluged with condescending lists of "advice for graduates"—stuff like…