These celebrities offered a heaping helping of encouragement, words of wisdom, and, of course, laughs when they spoke at ...

Not all of Harrison Butker's moves have been total winners. Before his Kansas City Chiefs team secured their spot in the 2025 Super Bowl, the NFL kicker faced criticism for delivering a commencement ...

Graduation season has come to a close across the country. It was filled with controversies.

At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the banality of the graduation ceremony is a tradition worth celebrating. By A.O. Scott Over the past few weekends, graduating seniors at American colleges ...

From getting dumped to fighting for your reproductive rights, we picked out our favorite (and one not-so favorite) speeches from this year's round of graduations. Okay, so we understand that ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times Friday while discussing artificial intelligence during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News ...

A high school graduation ceremony in North Carolina became controversial after a speech contained what some thought was an antisemitic dog whistle.

Hundreds of Stanford graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony on Sunday while Google CEO Sundar Pichai was delivering the keynote address, according to a BBC report. The protest targeted ...

Editor’s note: Catherine (Ellie) Canning graduated from the University of Delaware in May 2020 with B.A. degrees in Latin American and Iberian studies and art history, with a minor in museum studies.

Google’s ongoing Project Nimbus deal with Israel led to an icy reception for Pichai. At graduation ceremonies in 2026, the mere mention of artificial intelligence is enough to garner boos from the ...