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A Florida teenager has beaten the odds of homelessness to become the top graduating student in his high school class.

With Loveland City Schools in Ohio closed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, bus drivers bid farewell to the class of 2020 in their own way.

America’s largest pro-life youth organization’s virtual graduation was disrupted by a “Zoom bomb” with graphic gay porn and Nazi imagery.

Autumn Hope Johnson lived in poverty out of a yellow delivery truck. Ten years later, she graduated college on the Dean’s List with plans to go on to law school.

UC Berkeley students responded to the indefinite postponement of their graduation with a custom-built virtual celebration.

Although the May commencement event for graduating seniors at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, was canceled in response to the Chinese virus pandemic, university officials announced this week that separate online graduation ceremonies for LGBT, international, and minority students will proceed as originally scheduled.

A young man battling cancer in Tampa Bay, Florida, reached an important milestone Wednesday while his friends and family cheered him on.

Yale University announced on Wednesday that it is canceling its annual spring commencement ceremony, scheduled for May, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

NYU announced this week that it is allowing senior medical students to graduate early so that they can help fight the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus crisis in the city.

Harvard University announced this week that it is canceling its annual spring commencement ceremony as a precautionary measure against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Instead, the university will stream several virtual graduation ceremonies on May 28.

The University of Connecticut announced this week that it has canceled spring graduation ceremonies as a precaution against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. UConn is just one of several universities that have canceled or restricted upcoming graduation ceremonies.

Colleges and universities around the country are beginning to cancel their graduation and commencement ceremonies in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Nathaniel Beale’s ten-year-old son, Noah, took his place at his University of Oklahoma graduation on Saturday.

A 91-year-old grandmother in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, achieved a lifelong goal Saturday after putting it off for the past 73 years. 

Students at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) wore masks, shouted protest slogans, and waved banners before and during graduation ceremonies on Thursday.

A family is claiming that their local Walmart store ruined their daughter’s graduation party because the store gave them a cake made out of Styrofoam.

A new report suggests that non-elite universities around the country are giving students a chance at high-paying career.

A study by the National Association of Scholars revealed that at least 75 American colleges have black-only graduation ceremonies and 43 percent of surveyed colleges offer segregated residential halls.

A 22-year-old senior at Fordham University tragically passed away over the weekend after she fell from from the peak of the campus bell tower.

Administrators told Central Valley high school senior Toni Kress that she would not be allowed to wear her Army sash at graduation because it does not match school colors.

Apple CEO Tim Cook used part of his commencement speech at Duke University to praise student gun control activists from Parkland while deriding what he called an “epidemic of gun violence.”

A University of Florida official has come under fire this week for his aggressive handling of students celebrating during the convocation ceremony.

A pair of pesky pelicans crashed Pepperdine University’s graduation ceremony Saturday in Malibu, California, making their presence known to the crowd sitting outside for the event.

A principal at a New Jersey high school has scrapped a 50-year-old graduation tradition on the grounds that it is “offensive” to students “whose identity is more fluid.”

A 79-year-old great-grandmother of 13 graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science after she completed an online degree program.

TEL AVIV – Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the Palestinian Authority this week, official Palestinian press clamored to praise those “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were tied up carrying out terror attacks against Israelis but who will nonetheless merit “Paradise.”

Activists are targeting Stanford University’s graduation ceremony on Sunday, staging a protest against “rape culture” at the school, in connection with the recent conviction of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who received a light sentence.

A controversy has ensued about the decision that Pottsgrove High School will not have an invocation or benediction at its graduation ceremony on June 15 – the first time in many years.

Nohemi Gonzalez became the first person in her family to graduate college on Thursday morning as her mother and stepfather accepted the Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB) diploma on behalf of the young woman — who was murdered in the November 13 Islamic terror attacks in Paris.

A university has reportedly ‘banned’ new graduates from throwing mortarboards after students received facial injuries over the past few years. The BBC reports that students have been told they must instead mime the action, and that for a fee of £8,