You’re scheduled to give your high school’s valedictorian speech. But your dad dies the day before. What do you do? Ask to be excused? Everyone would understand if you didn’t give the address. But ...

USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum receives her diploma beside Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles on Friday. (Christina House/Los Angeles ...

Graduation speeches are well-known for offering cliché words of wisdom. But people attending graduation at Christian Brothers Academy last week said speeches by the valedictorian and salutatorian ...

You put in the work, graduate, and it paid off. You're finally graduating! Since the entire class of 2023 will be cloaked in the same exact cap and gown, the best way to stand out in the crowd on ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- A group of pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted the undergraduate graduation ceremony at UC Berkeley on Saturday. Cal's campus-wide commencement honoring nearly 7,000 ...

The crowd wildly cheered as police removed pro-Palestine protesters for disrupting the University of Michigan commencement ceremony on Saturday. According to the Associated Press, arrests have not ...

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Broomfield High School seniors celebrated their graduation Monday night. Their commencement speaker, a fellow graduate, moved the crowd to tears. Jillian Ball made school history ...

With emotion and soul that garnered cheers from the first note to the big finish, Thurman Carthen belted out the national anthem to a packed house at Galena High School's graduation Thursday. Carthen, ...

HOT SPRINGS -- The gunman in a mass shooting that followed a May 2022 graduation ceremony admitted on video to firing a pistol indiscriminately into a crowd that he believed included people who had ...

What a Front Range valedictorian was barred from saying in a graduation speech earlier in May drew a standing ovation when a Carbondale graduate said it this past weekend. Roaring Fork High School ...