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    In the United States, a commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, although the...
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  • the title "Wear Sunscreen", is an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the...
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    services. Academic dress – Ceremonial clothing used at graduations Commencement speech – Speech given to graduating students Encaenia – Academic or ecclesiastical...
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    months later. In 1998, Steve Jobs asked Cook to join Apple. In a commencement speech at Auburn University, Cook said he decided to join Apple after meeting...
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  • 2024, she delivered a commencement speech at Cabrini University during the institution's final graduation ceremony. In her speech, she reflected on her...
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  • The Shuping Yang commencement speech controversy took place following a commencement speech made by Shuping Yang (Chinese: 杨舒平; pinyin: Yáng Shūpíng),...
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    2006 commencement speech, Colby College 2008 commencement speech, Kenyon College 2009 commencement speech, Wesleyan University 2011 commencement speech, Grinnell...
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    College (2025) His 2015 commencement speech at Colgate University was listed first in a New York Times article of inspiring commencements. Glaude is married...
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    is an essay by David Foster Wallace. The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was published...
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    December 2010, she gave a TED speech titled "Why we have too few women leaders." In May 2011, she gave the Commencement Address at the Barnard College...
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    and NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2023, Brown delivered the commencement speech for the graduating class at Washington University in St. Louis and...
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    commencement speech". The Hill. Retrieved May 14, 2024. "Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker rails against Pride month, President Biden during commencement...
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  • Wing Coming into force, or commencement, is the day legislation begins to have legal effect Commencement speech, a speech given during university graduation...
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    possibly the youngest person in U.S. history to deliver a college commencement speech when she outlined her vision for the future of journalism for the...
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    Palisades Fire.[citation needed] In May 2025, Deschanel delivered the commencement speech for her alma mater, Boston University, and received an honorary Doctor...
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  • video was released, called "Bye Ivanka"; it took parts out of her commencement speech and focused on her relation with China and criticized Trump's handling...
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    Long Beach. She received her MFA from CSULB, and delivered the commencement speech for CSULB College of the Arts in 2015. Billings is an AIDS and LGBTQ...
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    20, 2022. "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Brentwood High School Commencement Speech". gov.ca.gov. June 7, 2008. Archived from the original on June 18...
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    sought-after commencement speakers", making over 150 speeches. His friend and colleague David Newell reported that Rogers would "agonize over a speech", and...
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    billion". On May 25, 2017, at Harvard's 366th commencement day, Zuckerberg, after giving a commencement speech, received an honorary degree from Harvard....
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    or celebrities invited by the student body. These speeches are often called a commencement speech. Keynote speakers are often selected to raise interest...
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    400 graduates and their families were gathered for graduation. The commencement speech of Foothill valedictorian, Brittany McComb (then 18 years old) was...
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    introduced the initiative during his commencement speech to the graduating class of the university. In the speech, he discussed his own experience growing...
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    Distinction, and delivered the student commencement speech in front of president Bill Clinton, who delivered the 2007 commencement address. El-Sayed was awarded...
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  • give that year's commencement speech. In 1967, the then-president Thomas C. Mendenhall invited Nicholas Katzenbach to be the commencement speaker for the...
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    July 16, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2016. "Video: Phil Rosenthal Commencement Speech - Student Affairs | Hofstra University, New York". www.hofstra.edu...
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    Dartmouth College. In addition to the honorary degree, he delivered the commencement speech. On October 21, 2011, O'Brien was ordained as a minister by the Universal...
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    the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine. Harvard University commencement speech on May 29, 2025. He lauded Harvard's opposition to the Trump administration's...
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    inexplicably occurring action and sex scenes. In 2004, Ali G gave the commencement speech at Harvard. Ali G was in a series of ads for the 2005–06 NBA season...
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    and would continue to do. On May 16, 2020, Obama gave a virtual commencement speech for some 27,000 students from 78 historically black colleges and...
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