A good commencement speech is not aimed at posterity, proffered to everyone for all time. Instead, it is a temporary moment in which a speaker brings a community together in the moment they share ...

The retired four-star admiral gave what is considered one of the best commencement speeches sharing the lessons he learned in Navy SEAL training.

Eric Church’s UNC commencement speech is going viral. Read the whole thing and understand through the transcript why it is so moving.

The College Fix’s Hannah Brady counts down the most memorable moments from this year’s commencement speeches, from a speaker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Duff delivers the Northeastern University's 2026 Commencement Speech on April 29, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts; Hugh ...

From Hugh Jackman to Malika Andrews, speakers celebrated 2026 graduates with stories about forging their own paths and growing from failure.

Something funny has happened to the familiar commencement address in the past 10 years. That something is YouTube. Steve Jobs' 2005 address at Stanford, to take just one example, has been viewed ...

Country music star Eric Church earned praise for delivering the “greatest” commencement speech with his now-viral address to University of North Carolina graduates — after working on the piece for ...

The singer used the six strings of his guitar as a metaphor for the six foundations of the lives that lay ahead of the graduating class — faith, family, partnership, ambition and resilience, community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eric Church is pulling on everyone’s heartstrings with his commencement speech about six strings. In a season filled with ...

Each year, millions of students across the country graduate from college. To celebrate the major milestone, their schools host week-long celebrations culminating with commencement ceremonies where ...