As college graduates across the country turn their tassels to the left and step into a world full of possibilities — and uncertainties — this year's commencement speakers have given moving speeches ...

A student speaker was recently disciplined by NYU for giving an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian speech at his school’s commencement ceremony. NYU apparently rejected the idea that the address should ...

As Jim Stephens approached the podium at the University of Alabama’s main graduation ceremony in May 2007, the United States was entering its fourth year of the Iraq War, with troops across the region ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned the 2025 class president from Friday's graduation commencement ceremony after she delivered a pro-Palestinian speech at an event Thursday. The ...

Students erupted in jeers Friday as MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles delivered her graduation speech to the Class of 2025. The protests were in support of Megha Vemuri, the class president who was banned ...

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before. Megha Vemuri ...

Kermit the Frog practices his University of Maryland commencement address in College Park on May 22. (Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post) Regarding Matt Bai’s May 25 Sunday Opinion column, ...

For the first time in his second term, President Donald Trump will address graduating students with a commencement speech at the University of Alabama on May 1. Trump announced the plans in an April ...

A student speaker was recently disciplined by NYU for giving an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian speech at his school’s commencement ceremony. NYU apparently rejected the idea that the address should ...

Students disrupt MIT chancellor at graduation after class president banned for pro-Palestine speech "We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the Earth, and it's a shame that MIT ...