They appear every spring, like crocuses or robins or perhaps black flies: commencement addresses. Thousands of them, across the country and across the variety of American higher education—two-year ...

When Emmy-award-winning actor Craig T. Nelson found out the University of Arizona would be giving him an honorary doctorate — and asking him to give the keynote address at graduation — he initially ...

Comedian Carol Leifer understands the stress of winning over a crowd better than most; she’s been doing it as a successful stand-up for decades. And now she’s applied her years of experience into the ...