Remembering Matthew McConaughey's epic, rambling UH commencement speech

The speech has been immortalized as a motivational force on YouTube, personally published by McConaughey on Medium, and by ...
Capital Public Radio

What We Learned From The Best Commencement Speeches Ever

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 ...
The Baltimore Sun

Transcript: Read Kermit the Frog’s University of Maryland commencement speech

Generations have heard Kermit the Frog’s voice from the youngest of ages. So what did the puppet, created by 1960 University of Maryland alumnus Jim Henson, have to say to a graduating class full of ...
The New York Times

We Watched Dozens of Graduation Speeches. Here’s What We Found.

The New York Times studied videos of addresses posted online, including those by President Trump, Kermit the Frog and a slew of celebrity speakers. Here is a look at key themes that emerged. By Mitch ...
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 ...
SheKnows

These Celebrities Gave College Commencement Speeches With the Best Advice for 2025 Grads

Every year, celebrities, businesspeople, politicians, artists, and more get asked to address a graduating class in a commencement speech. The moment, which is usually equally exciting to the honoree ...