Education (Colleges & Universities)
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A carrel of one's own
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 20 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news:
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A carrel of one's own
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Lining the walls of Canaday and Carpenter libraries, carrels offer students -mostly seniors and graduate students -a quiet, dedicated space to focus on their research and easy access to the library collections. The carrels, which students apply to use each year, were largely funded by and dedicated to alums; the first one was given by an alumna in honor of her great-aunt Marianna Moore, class of 1909. We interviewed some seniors about their carrels and the work they do there.
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BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 20 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news:
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A carrel of one's own
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Lining the walls of Canaday and Carpenter libraries, carrels offer students -mostly seniors and graduate students -a quiet, dedicated space to focus on their research and easy access to the library collections. The carrels, which students apply to use each year, were largely funded by and dedicated to alums; the first one was given by an alumna in honor of her great-aunt Marianna Moore, class of 1909. We interviewed some seniors about their carrels and the work they do there.
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Originaltext here: https://www.brynmawr.edu/bulletin/carrel-ones-own
Mawrters in the New Yorker
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 18 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news:
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Mawrters in the New Yorker
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When the Bulletin asked Maggie Larson '10 to draw a cartoon for this issue, she immediately texted the news to some of her friends ("I get to do a cartoon about Bryn Mawr!"), then set to work brainstorming ideas.
In the end, her depiction of friendship -a comically large group trying to squeeze through the "friendship poles" at Pem Arch, based on the more recent superstition that "splitting the poles" can split friendships -was the winning sketch.
"I wanted it to be funny,
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BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 18 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news:
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Mawrters in the New Yorker
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When the Bulletin asked Maggie Larson '10 to draw a cartoon for this issue, she immediately texted the news to some of her friends ("I get to do a cartoon about Bryn Mawr!"), then set to work brainstorming ideas.
In the end, her depiction of friendship -a comically large group trying to squeeze through the "friendship poles" at Pem Arch, based on the more recent superstition that "splitting the poles" can split friendships -was the winning sketch.
"I wanted it to be funny,but I wanted it to be a love letter to Bryn Mawr," she says. "It's the friendships I'm so grateful for."
Larson has been drawing for as long as she can remember and always loved the New Yorker magazines her parents had around the house. She was drawn to the single-panel style of the cartoons. "It's one chance to get it right and get a laugh."
In 2017, she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker. Now, more than 50 published cartoons later, she submits new ideas every week, poking fun at city living and everyday experiences.
"It's nice to elevate those small moments that are a part of how we are all living our lives," she says.
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Original text here: https://www.brynmawr.edu/bulletin/mawrters-new-yorker
Wake Technical Community College to Boost Region's Healthcare Workforce With $3M Kenan Investment
RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 17 -- The Wake Technical Community College issued the following news:
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College to Boost Region's Healthcare Workforce with $3M Kenan Investment
Wake Tech is expanding the Boost student success model, a workforce development initiative designed to help students complete their degrees sooner, into nursing and other healthcare programs.
Powered by a $3 million investment from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, the healthcare-focused expansion of Boost integrates with and adds to the college's Care Team advising model that organizes advisors and student
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RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 17 -- The Wake Technical Community College issued the following news:
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College to Boost Region's Healthcare Workforce with $3M Kenan Investment
Wake Tech is expanding the Boost student success model, a workforce development initiative designed to help students complete their degrees sooner, into nursing and other healthcare programs.
Powered by a $3 million investment from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, the healthcare-focused expansion of Boost integrates with and adds to the college's Care Team advising model that organizes advisors and studentsuccess coaches across 13 job sectors, including healthcare. This model has contributed to the highest student retention rates in Wake Tech's history.
The investment and new program were announced Friday during the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges meeting in Raleigh.
"We are excited to expand this model to our Health Sciences programs," said Wake Tech President Dr. Scott Ralls. "This investment strengthens our ability to create greater economic mobility for students while helping meet the region's growing healthcare workforce needs."
Through the Kenan Charitable Trust's investment, Wake Tech will add healthcare-specific Boost success coaches to support students through the unique pace and intensive requirements of Health Sciences coursework and clinical training. Students will also receive tuition assistance, textbook funding and a monthly stipend for meeting attendance and grade requirements. The program is expected to serve up to 150 students each year and will launch this fall.
"The credibility of the Boost model is undeniable, and we believe in this model and the ambitious statewide vision of Propel NC," said Robby Russell, grant officer for the Kenan Charitable Trust. "To further this essential, transformative work, the Kenan Charitable Trust is proud to join this partnership to serve students pursuing healthcare degrees, strengthening the state's workforce in a crucial sector."
Wake County is growing larger and older at the same time, adding an average of 66 new residents each day, many of whom are over the age of 55. As the largest healthcare education provider in North Carolina, Wake Tech plays a critical role in preparing the skilled professionals needed to serve a growing and aging region.
The college has been significantly increasing investment in healthcare programs, including building a $100 million simulation hospital on the Perry Health Sciences Campus and launching programs in Respiratory Therapy and Cardiovascular Sonography.
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Original text here: https://www.waketech.edu/post/wt-news-story/994309
The commencement of the Class of 2026
NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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The commencement of the Class of 2026
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The University of Notre Dame celebrated its 181st Commencement Ceremony on Sunday (May 17) at Notre Dame Stadium. An audience of more than 20,000 family members, friends, faculty and graduates were in attendance as 2,120 degrees were conferred on undergraduate students.
Over the course of Commencement Weekend, the University conferred a total of 3,335 degrees.
University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., and John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer
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NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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The commencement of the Class of 2026
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The University of Notre Dame celebrated its 181st Commencement Ceremony on Sunday (May 17) at Notre Dame Stadium. An audience of more than 20,000 family members, friends, faculty and graduates were in attendance as 2,120 degrees were conferred on undergraduate students.
Over the course of Commencement Weekend, the University conferred a total of 3,335 degrees.
University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., and John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill FischerProvost, introduced the speakers and welcomed the guests. The ceremony opened with the singing of "America the Beautiful," led by Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., an associate professor of theology.
Salutatorian Allison Elshoff, a business analytics major from Valencia, California, offered an invocation. On behalf of the graduating class, she expressed gratitude for Christ's love, for family and friends, for teachers and mentors, and for the University of Notre Dame. Elshoff also prayed for God's guidance and asked that the graduates "leave these halls eager to enter the world as instruments of your peace."
In his valedictory address, Martin Soros, from Bethesda, Maryland, considered the journey that each graduate took to Notre Dame, which he noted was not so different from that of its founder, Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., who arrived on the frozen grounds in late November 1842 with a vision for what the University could become.
"We all came to create something, just like Father Sorin," he said. "What did he see in that frozen landscape? He saw you and he saw me. He saw researchers fighting to end disease. He saw students tutoring at a local middle school. He saw members of a choir sharing their gifts, and he saw neighbors cracking jokes in a dorm hallway. Over these last four years, at every turn, we cultivated warmth for others."
Soros, a civil engineering major who is perhaps best known as co-creator of St. Olaf's ice chapel on campus this winter, said that warmth is something the world desperately needs.
"Like Father Sorin, we stand before a world that has grown cold," Soros said. "And though the people we encounter may know nothing about Notre Dame, we can leave its mark on their hearts with the warmth we have cultivated here. This may seem daunting. But we've been doing it for four years, and we are just getting started."
Honorary degrees were conferred upon Marguerite Barankitse, a humanitarian leader, teacher and founder of the education, development and relief organization Maison Shalom (House of Peace); Mary Boyce, provost emerita and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University; Eamon Duffy, emeritus professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and former president and fellow of Magdalene College at Cambridge; Christopher J. Murphy III, executive chairman of 1st Source Corporation; J. Christopher Reyes, co-founder and chair of Reyes Holdings LLC; and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., the sixth archbishop of Newark.
Father Dowd then introduced the principal speaker, Sister Raffaella Petrini, F.S.E., who also received an honorary degree. Sister Petrini is president of the Pontifical Commission and Governorate of Vatican City State, serving at the invitation of both the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV, and becoming the first woman to hold these positions.
"Sister Petrini speaks to us today at a historic time in the Church, as we embrace the first American-born pope, Pope Leo.... It is clear that Pope Leo is a pope for all, as he has centered his papacy on unity, charity and 'crossing borders in order to announce the Gospel,'" Father Dowd said. "In many ways, our speaker today has embodied these ideals throughout her ministry, as an Italian-born member of an American-based religious community who is tireless in her service to the Church and to all of God's people around the world."
In her address, Sister Petrini built on the recent Jubilee year theme chosen by Pope Francis, "Pilgrims of Hope," inviting the graduates to become "leaders of hope."
"You will be people of hope if, centered in Christ, the Principle of Communion, you embark on your new beginning, driven by a sincere desire to build bridges: bridges between humanity and God; bridges between those you meet; bridges between those who are the main players and those who are left behind; bridges between cultures, languages and personal histories; and bridges between individuals and generations," she said.
Sister Petrini also called upon the graduates to "dream, make choices and set priorities" and to "continue to search for more."
"I pray that you will march on and contribute to the common good, that you will move forward strong of heart and remain true to your faith, with kindness and courage," she said. "May you take responsibility for others with loyalty and integrity, and be our hope."
The University presented the 2026 Laetare Medal -the most prestigious award given exclusively to American Catholics, and Notre Dame's highest honor -to Timothy P. Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics.
Shriver, who began his career as an educator, described his decision to lead Special Olympics, which was founded by his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Special Olympics, he said, is "a global witness to the truth that every human being is a sacred creation, with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God -and should be treated that way.
"The precious occasions when we gather and see this truth together are moments of lasting grace."
Shriver, who also co-founded UNITE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people bridge political divides, said that the need to make dignity the standard for how we treat each other is both an ancient call -and "the most urgent call of our times."
"In answering the call, you here at Notre Dame have an extraordinary advantage," Shriver said. "You will walk out of here with the advantage of having been schooled here -on this campus, in this special place -and your university was blessed for this calling even before Father Sorin baked the first brick to build Notre Dame.
"So as you leave the home field of the Fighting Irish to launch the next chapter of your lives, what would you fight for? What were you born to fight for? I pray you will fight to honor the inherent dignity in every human being -and renew the face of the earth."
Following the conferral of all baccalaureate degrees, Father Dowd offered a charge to the graduates.
"Never forget that your charge as a Notre Dame graduate is to be a force for good in the world. And as you go out into the world, to build your careers and communities and deepen your awareness of God's mysterious presence and action in your lives, I hope you will rely on the moral, intellectual and ethical foundation you've cultivated here," he said. "Class of 2026, as you go forth from here, be assured of our gratitude for you -and be assured of our prayers for you. I hope you will come back to Notre Dame often, because it is and always will be your home."
The ceremony closed with a benediction by Cardinal Tobin, followed by a special performance by Irish folk band The High Kings.
"Send [these graduates] forth as bearers of light where there is darkness, hope where there is despair, and unity where there is division," Cardinal Tobin said. "May their lives reflect the values they have learned here -a commitment to truth, a heart for service and a faith that seeks understanding."
Contact: Carrie Gates, associate director of media relations, c.gates@nd.edu, 574-993-9220
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Original text here: https://news.nd.edu/news/the-commencement-of-the-class-of-2026/
Martin Soros: 2026 Valedictory Address
NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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Martin Soros: 2026 Valedictory Address
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(Remarks as prepared)
Distinguished guests, faculty, staff, friends, family, and above all, fellow classmates, welcome! What a joy it is to be with you today. I'd like to start by saying thank you. To our friends and family, for supporting us every step of the way. To our professors, for teaching us, challenging us, and pretending not to notice when we fell asleep in class. To our priests, rectors, and mentors, who stood by our side in our hardest moments.
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NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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Martin Soros: 2026 Valedictory Address
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(Remarks as prepared)
Distinguished guests, faculty, staff, friends, family, and above all, fellow classmates, welcome! What a joy it is to be with you today. I'd like to start by saying thank you. To our friends and family, for supporting us every step of the way. To our professors, for teaching us, challenging us, and pretending not to notice when we fell asleep in class. To our priests, rectors, and mentors, who stood by our side in our hardest moments.To our university staff, like Maria, who always greeted us at North Dining Hall, or Cory, who always asked about our weekend as he cleaned the halls of Fisher. Thank you for making Notre Dame our home. And finally, to my classmates: we made it.
Finding our way to this university was a unique journey for each one of us. For me, that journey was a little unconventional. Growing up as the son of two Argentinian immigrants, I had never heard about Notre Dame. Once I was admitted, I learned all sorts of things: I learned that Notre Dame is not in Louisiana. I learned that Notre Dame had a football team. I also learned that this team is rather good. This news has yet to reach the College Football Playoff Committee. Whatever path we took to arrive here, we left behind the familiar and stepped into an experience full of unknowns.
The same was true of Fr. Sorin. He left behind his home in France, and first set foot on these grounds in 1842. Like us, he didn't know what lay before him. He arrived in the middle of a cold winter, welcomed by two frozen lakes. As he gazed upon this frigid landscape, he wrote: "Everything was frozen, and yet it all appeared so beautiful." He knew that he had no money and no students. And yet, he stood in the snow and found the courage to build something that would radiate warmth in this cold world.
This past January, my friend Wes and I saw an opportunity to build something of our own. After finishing class for the afternoon, we took some recycling bins onto the quad and began filling them with snow. We didn't have any plans or calculations. We just used the materials we could find: water from our dorm showers, two bunk bed ladders, and a car hood. As the days went by, a small chapel began to rise out of the snow. First the columns, then the roof, and finally the details. On their way to and from the dorm, our classmates chipped in. They helped to shovel snow, compact bricks, and lay the arches. Together, amidst the cold, we built something sacred.
Six days later, on a frigid Monday night, we came together for mass. Students, staff, members of the South Bend community. In 19-degree weather, we huddled around this chapel made of ice. In this moment, we discovered that we had built more than a structure. Together, we had built a community. In the gathering of these individuals, so different from one another, our hearts radiated warmth. A sacred warmth.
Every one of us has built something during our time at Notre Dame. We built robots with physics and math, built essays out of stories, and built boats for the Fisher Regatta with supplies we found in a dumpster. Whether in internships or classrooms, in our dorms or on the quad, we all came to create something, just like Fr. Sorin. What did he see in that frozen landscape? He saw you and he saw me. He saw researchers fighting to end disease, he saw students tutoring at a local middle school, he saw members of a choir sharing their gifts, and he saw neighbors cracking jokes in a dorm hallway. Over these last four years, at every turn, we cultivated warmth for others.
This is the very kind of warmth our world so desperately needs. A world paralyzed by the cold of indifference, a world comfortable with looking the other way. I know that I've felt this cold within myself, and I bet you have, too. I think of all the times I've been walking down a street, focused on my destination, when I come across a man sitting on the curb. I immediately become uncomfortable. I start fidgeting. I glance in the other direction. I pretend he isn't there. I'm afraid to look at his fragile humanity for fear that he will see mine.
This is the cold of the world we inhabit. We can't escape it. So, what is there left to do? The only thing we can: build inside it. When we stop seeing the cold as a threat and start seeing it as an opportunity, we begin to create sacred spaces of encounter. In a speech like this, I'm supposed to say how we will change the world as lawyers, CEOs, doctors, or teachers. And we will. But our time at Notre Dame has helped me realize that before we are any of those things, we are something else first: a brother, a sister. The change we wish to see occurs by radiating warmth, one person at a time. Sometimes, it's as simple as a smile or a hug.
Every summer, I spent a couple of months in Buenos Aires, at a community center in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the city. Working there, I had the privilege of growing close to people who bear unimaginable wounds: addiction, abuse, hunger. In this place, so full of brokenness and grace, pain and laughter, I found a home, a family. One night, on a retreat we had planned for the high schoolers in the neighborhood, we walked to a small chapel. As the young people lined up outside, a loved one waited inside, ready to welcome them with a hug. I watched from a distance as each one of them stepped in, melted into the embrace, and began to weep. Life had been so cold for them that this embrace, this moment of tenderness, radiated a sacred warmth. Once everyone had gone in, and it was my turn to receive a hug, I also began to cry uncontrollably. I was overwhelmed. Because when we share warmth with someone else, it washes over us, too. And slowly, in our hearts, there ceases to exist an "us" and a "them," to make way for simply "us."
Here, on the margins, is where society is coldest. Here is where we must bring warmth. For each of us, this will look different. It may be a homeless man we encounter on our way to work. It may be a coworker eating lunch alone, whom we can invite out to eat. Or it may be someone sitting by themselves in the last pew at church, whom we can approach after mass. In these individuals we meet face-to-face - in the migrant, in the poor, in the lonely - we behold the face of Jesus. In them, we find our calling: to build community, to spread warmth, to be united in kinship as brothers and sisters.
Class of 2026: today we are sent into the world: to Wall Street and classrooms, to hospitals and courtrooms. Like Fr. Sorin, we stand before a world that has grown cold. And though the people we encounter may know nothing about Notre Dame, we can leave a mark on their hearts with the warmth we have cultivated here. This may seem daunting. But we've been doing it for four years, and we are just getting started.
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Original text here: https://news.nd.edu/news/martin-soros-2026-valedictory-address/
Colgate University's 205th Commencement Celebrates the Class of 2026
HAMILTON, New York, May 17 -- Colgate University posted the following news:
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Colgate University's 205th Commencement Celebrates the Class of 2026
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Graduates received their degrees under blue skies and sunshine Sunday morning as the Colgate University community celebrated the accomplishments of the Class of 2026, May 15-17.
Throughout the weekend, members of the graduating class -who arrived at Colgate at the tail end of a global pandemic and are leaving as the world undergoes rapid technological changes -were reminded to keep seeking what grounds them.
In remarks at Saturday afternoon's
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HAMILTON, New York, May 17 -- Colgate University posted the following news:
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Colgate University's 205th Commencement Celebrates the Class of 2026
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Graduates received their degrees under blue skies and sunshine Sunday morning as the Colgate University community celebrated the accomplishments of the Class of 2026, May 15-17.
Throughout the weekend, members of the graduating class -who arrived at Colgate at the tail end of a global pandemic and are leaving as the world undergoes rapid technological changes -were reminded to keep seeking what grounds them.
In remarks at Saturday afternoon'sbaccalaureate service, University President Brian W. Casey stressed the lifelong importance of addressing the question "What are you committed to?" Casey explained the significance of the query by specifying that "a commitment is different from a preference, which can be lightly held, and it is different from a plan, which often changes. A commitment asks something of us. It's deeper somehow. It can hold you steady when the next step is not yet visible."
Such positions, he further noted, arrive in a variety of forms and at unexpected junctures, for "part of the wonder of life is that our commitments can emerge and deepen over time. Some are chosen. Some are discovered. Some arrive through loss. Some arrive through love. But I hope Colgate has helped you begin to know yours."
Also addressing the class at Saturday's service, journalist Ann Curry -who was awarded an honorary doctorate at Sunday's commencement ceremony -encouraged the Class of 2026 to find sources of consolation amid life's inevitable chaos. "I encourage you to collect your own consolations," Curry urged the graduates. "Choose what most resonates with you. Keep them close.... They will grow. And you might well find you can breathe easier during your worst of times and feel inspired toward your best of times."
At the Sunday commencement exercises in Andy Kerr Stadium, 767 undergraduates were recognized for earning a bachelor of arts degree and nine graduate students were awarded a master of arts in teaching.
This year's graduating class includes Sohail Nabi '26, who tragically passed away in a kayaking accident last weekend. Nabi was the first graduate recognized in Sunday's ceremony. His academic adviser, Maura Tumulty, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, accepted the diploma on his behalf. Classmates and other members of the campus community reflected on Nabi's life in a candlelight vigil held in Memorial Chapel on Wednesday evening.
The commencement keynote speaker was Ole Obermann '93, global head of Apple Music. He expressed hope that, alongside the knowledge graduates have gained at Colgate, they can also take with them human connections, chance encounters, and serendipitous classes that no algorithm or artificial intelligence could provide. "Your personal relationships will become even more important in the future," Obermann said. "And Colgate has prepared you very well for that. Colgate attracts and trains great minds with an extraordinary ability to interact with others. Make sure you connect the dots that Colgate puts out there for you."
Calling attention to the massive transformations that will accompany the expansion of artificial intelligence, Obermann maintains a belief in the importance of human imagination and experience: "There is a growing sentiment that AI can take over creativity as stories, scripts, songs, and designs become automated. I feel exactly the opposite is true. Soul, love, joy, and taste will matter even more in the future."
Obermann's message included words of encouragement: "The greatest impact in life will happen when you feel uncomfortable. In those situations, stick to the courage of your conviction.... Make mistakes, because I am certain you will land on your feet." He finished his remarks by sharing a playlist of 13 songs he created for the graduates on Apple Music.
Class of 2026
* 767 undergraduates earned a bachelor of arts degree
* 9 awarded a master of arts in teaching, four with distinction
* Valedictorian: Peter Flynn McGrath, of Washington, D.C.; summa cum laude, physics major and German minor; high honors in physics; elected to Phi Beta Kappa
* Salutorian: Andrew Reinhard Hatfield, of New York, N.Y.; summa cum laude, economics major and computer science and mathematics minors
* 33 elected to Phi Beta Kappa
* 168 summa cum laude
* 257 magna cum laude
* 140 cum laude
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Original text here: https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/colgate-universitys-205th-commencement-celebrates-class-2026
Allison Elshoff: 2026 Invocation
NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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Allison Elshoff: 2026 Invocation
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(Remarks as prepared)
As is our tradition at the University of Notre Dame, let us begin with prayer.
Almighty God, we invite your presence here today. Be with us as we gather together in this
stadium, united as one family of many spiritual and cultural traditions. Under the loving gaze of
Our Blessed Mother, may we celebrate this sacred moment with Christ our Teacher.
Because you loved us first, we begin with gratitude. Thank you for our parents and families,
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NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 17 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news:
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Allison Elshoff: 2026 Invocation
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(Remarks as prepared)
As is our tradition at the University of Notre Dame, let us begin with prayer.
Almighty God, we invite your presence here today. Be with us as we gather together in this
stadium, united as one family of many spiritual and cultural traditions. Under the loving gaze of
Our Blessed Mother, may we celebrate this sacred moment with Christ our Teacher.
Because you loved us first, we begin with gratitude. Thank you for our parents and families,who
have sacrificed so much so that we might graduate today -and who believed in us long before
we believed in ourselves. Thank you for our roommates and friends, who cheered us on in our
greatest joys, and held us through our deepest sorrows. Thank you for our faculty -our teachers,
coaches, and mentors -who have cultivated our minds and hearts, and taught us that the greatest
teacher of all is the love we show one another. And finally, we thank you for the University of
Notre Dame, which has granted us the transformative gift of education, and which sends us forth
today to be stewards of Your hope.
Loving God, guide us as we navigate the path ahead. Empty us of ambition and ego, that we may
know our lives are not our own. Ground us in humility, with eyes attentive enough to see every
person the way that You see them. Fill us with courage and a genuine hunger for justice, that our
hearts might be stirred to the boldness needed to accompany those whose voices need to be
Heard.
Lord God, send your Holy Spirit to dwell within us -now, and always. So that in the spirit of
Notre Dame, with lives filled with zeal and hearts full of sure hope, we may leave these halls
eager to enter the world as instruments of your peace.
We make this prayer to our gracious and loving God, through the intercession of your Blessed
Mother, the patroness of Notre Dame du Lac. Amen.
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Original text here: https://news.nd.edu/news/allison-elshoff-2026-invocation/
