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 ...

Something funny has happened to the familiar commencement address in the past 10 years. That something is YouTube. Steve Jobs' 2005 address at Stanford, to take just one example, has been viewed ...

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 ...

Unapologetically Black was the name of FLOTUS’ game. “Our history provides us with a better story, a better blueprint for how we can win. It teaches us that when we pull ourselves out of those lowest ...

Eric Church’s UNC commencement speech is going viral. Read the whole thing and understand through the transcript why it is so moving.

Donovan Livingston knew the stakes were high this year when he was asked to deliver a commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches. Ten years ago, he was ...

Eric Church was born and bred in North Carolina, and he gave back to his community on Saturday when he gave a moving commencement speech to graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

The singer used the six strings of his guitar as a metaphor for the six foundations of the lives that lay ahead of the graduating class — faith, family, partnership, ambition and resilience, community ...

Each year, millions of students across the country graduate from college. To celebrate the major milestone, their schools host week-long celebrations culminating with commencement ceremonies where ...