Listen more than you speak. Cut yourself some slack. Don’t become numb to suffering. And please, clean up the mess your elders made. Congratulations and Godspeed to the country’s newest graduates. This year’s commencement speakers were blunt in describing the country’s bleak state of affairs, but they also shared poignant personal reflections, messages of hope and words of inspiration none of which were attributed to ChatGPT. Inside Higher Ed reviewed only a small share of the season’s speeches plenty are still to come, after all so this sampling does not claim to be comprehensive or even representative. Think of it as a snapshot of the commencement addresses delivered to the Class of 2023, excerpted and edited for clarity and space.
Many low-income parents Milwaukee’s predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods say voucher programs are the only way their children can attend faith-based institutions.
School choice allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools has become another front in the partisan battles over education this election season.
School choice — allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools — has become another front in the partisan battles over education this