Top 10 Commencement Speeches: Best of All Time (Video) Conan O'Brien, Amy Poehler and Ellen DeGeneres have all imparted words of wisdom on graduating students.

Chadwick Boseman, Chance the Rapper, Oprah Winfrey, etc., delivered dynamic commencement speeches that encouraged 2018 graduates to live their best lives.

Our new searchable database of commencement speeches brings you more than 300 of the best, tagged with the most enduring themes: Work hard. Change the world. And, of course, YOLO.

As spring turns to summer, college students turn to graduation, the ritual celebration that signals the end of formal university education and the beginning of a professional career. A key aspect of ...

I’m a sucker for few things in life: inspirational sports movies, babies with glasses, guitar solos and commencement speeches. As a kid, I always saw them as one of those ironic staples of our ...

Commencement speeches are targeted toward a very specific audience of people who are on the verge of starting their careers, but the best speakers tend to offer age-agonistic advice. For example ...

Famed actor and comedian Steve Carell delivered the commencement address for the Northwestern University class of 2025 Sunday at the United Center.

ATLANTA — Spelman College announced on Thursday who will deliver its commencement speech next month. Award-winning actress Angela Bassett will speak to the Class of 2024 while also receiving an ...

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 ...