A couple of weeks ago, Barry Levy, a doctor who moonlights as a musical satirist, sent a CD to NPR. It contained the music and lyrics of a graduation-speech satire he wrote. It was set to the music of ...

So you thought that being on your school’s graduation committee would be fun—or at least that it would get you out of calculus once a month. But now you’ve gotten to song nominations and you’re not ...

If there's any occasion that can send you on a roller coaster of emotions, it’s graduation day. Not only are you officially bidding farewell to school dances, pep rallies and midnight cramming ...

Graduation season causes a variety of emotions that musiccan help to express. Some graduates will be elated, happy to escape the confines of education. Others will feel saddened by or afraid of the ...

Graduation season is upon us, which means that all around the world, students are finishing a chapter in their academic career to the tune of some inspirational or sentimental pop hit. We asked you to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Actor Jennifer Coolidge will give the 2024 commencement address at Washington University. It’s a time for joy. A time for tears.

A member of the class of 2016 reacts as President Barack Obama addresses the 2016 commencement ceremony at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Getty Images Wipe your tears and crank the volume up.

It's cap-and-gown time at colleges and universities. All across the country, the next generation of American exceptionalism is coming to terms with having mortgaged its future to meet the skyrocketing ...

Sydney Helgeson gave a special send off to her graduating class. A star was born when a North Dakota teen gave an epic high school graduation speech set to the song "Shallow." Sydney Helgeson took the ...