A good commencement speech is not aimed at posterity, proffered to everyone for all time. Instead, it is a temporary moment in which a speaker brings a community together in the moment they share ...

College commencement addresses don’t often manage to live on in posterity after the graduation ceremony in which they were ...

As campuses grow more polarized, universities weigh speech, protest and political backlash at commencement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Duff delivers the Northeastern University's 2026 Commencement Speech on April 29, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts; Hugh ...