Words of wisdom from 2016 commencement addresses
As graduation season comes to a close, we bring you some highlights of a few of our favorite commencement addresses of 2016: Sheryl Sandberg
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National Security Adviser Rice: Security workforce lacks diversity
(CNSNews.com) – National Security Adviser Susan Rice told graduates at Florida International University in Miami, Fla., recently that the U.S. intelligence community is too white and male. "Too often, our national security workforce has been what former Florida Senator Bob Graham called 'white, male, and Yale.'
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Rita Moreno: ‘Hamilton’ was inspiration for rapping Berklee speech
BOSTON (AP) — Rita Moreno says it was the hip-hop musical "Hamilton" that inspired her to bust a rhyme while delivering the commencement address at the Berklee College of Music.
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Commencement speakers set to take stage in college-rich Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker is slated to deliver six commencement speeches this year, according to communications from various universities, including an address at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where his son is graduating. Other speakers preparing to deliver commencement addresses in Massachusetts as this academic year comes to
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What’s missing from graduation speeches
Graduation season is upon us, and thus starts the annual ritual of the middle-aged and elderly offering advice to the young. "Go forth and change the world!" "You can do anything!" "You have freedoms and resources that previous generations only dreamed of, take advantage of
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Harvard grads will hear from Hollywood great Spielberg
CAMBRIDGE – Call it a case of the Ivy League going Hollywood. Harvard University will feature Academy Award-winning film director Steven Spielberg as its commencement speaker on May 26, the Cambridge school said Thursday. He'll be the star of the school's 365th graduation exercise.
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Unsolicited advice to the young
Many young people today are discovering that a college degree no longer guarantees a quality job and entrance into the middle class. At the same time, employers often complain that the new crop of graduates "just don't know how to work." They report that young hires
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