15 Celebrities Giving Commencement Speeches This Year

Hilary Duff, Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Jackman are among the celebrities imparting their words of wisdom to 2026 college ...
CNN

2025 MIT class president banned from graduation ceremony after pro-Palestinian speech

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before. Megha Vemuri ...
Inside Higher Ed

Turing’s Milestone, Graduation’s Microphone

The Class of 2025 is entering a world fundamentally changed by AI—so Matthew Brophy proposes sending them off with an AI-authored commencement speech. Image generated by Matthew Brophy with ChatGPT ...
The Hill

Commencement speeches aren’t for political grandstanding

A student speaker was recently disciplined by NYU for giving an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian speech at his school’s commencement ceremony. NYU apparently rejected the idea that the address should ...
The New York Times

M.I.T. Class President Barred From Graduation Ceremony After Pro-Palestinian Speech

According to the school, the student delivered a speech, which denounced M.I.T.’s ties to Israel, that had not been preapproved. By John Branch The 2025 class president of M.I.T. was barred from a ...
Yahoo

See which celebrities are giving commencement speeches this year

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of Hollywood's biggest names will soon be taking a different kind of center stage: the commencement stage. With graduation ...