All posts tagged Barack Obama

2010 Commencement Speakers, Part II
05/06/2010, Comments Off

Last month, we shared our initial list of commencement speakers for this year’s graduating class, following up tha ...

Commencement Speaker Controversy: Name of the Game
04/27/2010, 4 Comments

Graduating from college is an exercise in and of itself: a commencement exercise, that is. Years of hard work and study ...

Commencement Speakers Take Center Stage
04/17/2009, 3 Comments

I must admit that I don’t remember who spoke at my college’s commencement back in 1985. I was present at the ...

Pressure Mounts To Exclude Presidential Commencement Address
04/10/2009, 3 Comments

The University of Notre Dame has been the subject of much controversy ever since the Roman Catholic institution announce ...

Sallie Mae To Reverse Job Outsourcing
04/08/2009, 3 Comments

Founded as a government sponsored enterprise, SLM Corp. which is better known to students as Sallie Mae,  has helped mi ...

Opposition To Obama Notre Dame Appearance Mounting
03/25/2009, 2 Comments

Pro-lifers and other conservative groups are responding in anger to President Obama’s scheduled commencement addre ...

George Mason Study Cautions Against NOLA Levee Security
02/02/2009, 3 Comments

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating storms to strike our country when it impacted a large swath of the gul ...

Presidential Debates Put Colleges In The Spotlight
10/06/2008, 4 Comments

The presidential and vice-presidential debates provide an excellent opportunity for America’s colleges and univers ...