(Facebook link)Jerich Alcantara left early for his...  ...ich was an image on a phone. He missed the school commencement ceremony, but his family and friends threw their...

It is the season that we get to hear "Pomp and Cir...  ...n ceremony. The song was not written for a school commencement ; in fact, the lyrics are quite warlike. So how di...  ...Elgar's march, and how it became associated with commencement

How comfortable are you with public speaking? How...  ...h public speaking? How about a spur-of-the-moment commencement address? Improv Everywhere recently staged a grad...  ...yant Park. The premise here is that the scheduled commencement speaker (John Kerry if anyone asked) missed his f...

My mind and my time have been preoccupied this wee...  ...5, Elgar received an invitation to come to Yale's commencement and receive an honorary doctorate. To honor their...  ...ous George. There are more traditions surrounding commencement exercises that you may wonder about, explained in...

[http://youtu.be/J77wZbbtt4M] (YouTube link)The ot...  ...you go to NPR for inspiration in order to make a commencement speech. The same folks have simplified the proces...

Have you been asked to provide a commencement speech for your local high school or college? If...  ...because we all do. NPR has collected the 300 best commencement speeches from the past 240 years. Some of those w...

(Image credit: bruna_deituoi_s0gni)It’s a tradition at some colleges to decorate the top of your mortarboard for graduation (other schools forbid it). The designs range from pop culture icons to family tributes to...

[http://youtu.be/Y5V2bikXnMU] (YouTube link)The mo...  ...he most exciting part of the Davenport University commencement festivities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, happened a...

Erica Goldson gave a very different speech at Coxs...  ...ackie, New York. The class valedictorian gave the commencement address many students over the years claimed they...