The University community ushered in a new academic year at the 2014 Convocation ceremony on Oct. 7, 2014, with keynote speaker Paula Marantz Cohen, PhD, Distinguished Professor of English and dean of ...

The days are long gone when the phrase “Here be dragons” on a navigational chart warned captains away from unknown and perilous waters. At Bates, though, “the professor-navigator knows where the ...

The Convocation for New Students and Families features an academic procession; recognition of faculty; and welcoming remarks by RIT President Bill Destler, new Senior Vice President for Student ...

What makes a Kellogg leader? To Dean Sally Blount '92, addressing the graduating Class of 2014 at Ryan Field on Friday, a key component is, of all things, compulsion. "(Kellogg leaders) are compulsive ...

For Matt Auer, there’s a clear connection between a student’s journey while at Bates and the Age of Discovery that opened the globe to seafaring European explorers centuries ago. Auer, the college’s ...

As children prepare to go back to school, nearly 20,000 employees of the Dallas Independent School District geared up for the school year at a convocation. "Today’s theme is to think differently and ...

Convocation: a celebration surrounded by time-honoured traditions, pomp, pageantry – and levity? Many aspects of the ceremonies honouring graduating students at the University of Toronto evoke a ...

Lucia Cerna, in conjunction with SCU alumna Mary Jo Ignoffo, has recorded her eyewitness testimony of the massacre in La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs. Copies of this book will be ...

More than 12,500 undergraduate and graduate students will cross the stage at Convocation Hall this month to become the University of Toronto's newest alumni. And they're sharing the moment with family ...

At three convocation ceremonies on October 28, Concordia’s president Alan Shepard joined honorands and valedictorians in congratulating the fall class of 2014. Shepard spoke of how the graduates have ...

These days, with a camera on every smartphone, there's no shortage of photography that happens every day on campus. Still, there's nothing quite like graduation season to bring out the flashes, the ...