After 40 or more years listening to graduation speeches for first grade through college and including a medical school and as a family member, student, teacher and administrator, I feel I have become ...

You can’t ever predict when a virus will strike, how exactly it will spread. So while it has been months since George Saunders gave his convocation address to graduates of Syracuse University – where ...

As college graduates across the country turn their tassels to the left and step into a world full of possibilities — and uncertainties — this year's commencement speakers have given moving speeches ...

Kermit the Frog practices his University of Maryland commencement address in College Park on May 22. (Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post) Regarding Matt Bai’s May 25 Sunday Opinion column, ...