Chicago Girl Earns Doctorate at Just 17, Opens Program to Help Other Students
While most 17-year-olds were still in high school, Chicago’s Dorothy Tillman was earning her doctorate degree and paving the way for others.
While most 17-year-olds were still in high school, Chicago’s Dorothy Tillman was earning her doctorate degree and paving the way for others.
A former teen mother in North Carolina who earned her PhD is beaming with pride because her daughter is reaching incredible goals, just like she did, at the same nursing school.
After missing his daughter’s high school and undergraduate graduation, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Douglas Hernandez surprised his daughter Pamela on stage for her master’s degree ceremony.
A mass shooting occurred following a high school graduation outside the Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday.
Fourteen-year-old Xavier Jones walked over two hours to his eighth-grade graduation, and his determination is inspiring others.
President Joe Biden took a huge fall on the stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony Thursday.
A 72-year-old Georgia resident reached a huge educational goal on May 11 as his family beamed with pride.
A graduate of Conroe High School in Texas is making community members and her loved ones proud after her humble beginnings.
An extremely intelligent young man in Oklahoma has achieved something that is inspiring others to work toward their goals.
A smart and dedicated school custodian in DeKalb County, Georgia, finally got his long-awaited high school diploma on Friday.
Thanks to a caring community, an Oklahoma high school senior’s mother got to see her son graduate before she passed away the next day.
The Metro Academy Class 54 was honored at its recent graduation in Louisville, Kentucky, to have a special guest who has always wanted to be a police officer.
A 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran from Ohio is finally receiving his high school diploma decades after leaving school.
A policeman in New York City is making his family members and community proud in a big way.
David Balogun of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, enjoys all kinds of activities like other children do, but learning is his favorite.
An elderly woman in Gulfport, Mississippi, is feeling accomplished after receiving an honorary GED certificate thanks to help from several people.
Heartwarming footage captured the moment a soldier surprised her daughter ahead of her high school graduation after traveling 30 hours from Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.
This year’s graduating class at a high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, is getting lots of attention for achieving huge success.
A high school in Los Angeles County is prohibiting unvaccinated students from participating in their graduation ceremony, according to recent reports.
Central China Normal University in Wuhan, the origin location of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, held a mass graduation event for over 11,000 students on Sunday without requiring masks or social distancing, video footage from Agence France-Presse (AFP) revealed.
Video of a high school graduate in Pennsylvania walking at his recent graduation ceremony a few years after he was paralyzed is getting a lot of attention online.
A student at Asheboro High School in Asheboro, North Carolina, was denied his diploma on Thursday after wearing a Mexican flag over his graduation gown at the commencement ceremony.
The daughter of a firefighter killed during a Los Angeles County fire station shooting graduated from high school this week wearing her beloved dad’s firefighting jacket.
A soon-to-be high school graduate named Marley Comito wanted to snap a special picture so much, she went over 1,000 miles to get it.
A Michigan high school will allow the valedictorian to reference her faith in her speech after receiving a letter from First Liberty Institute.
As colleges open their commencement ceremonies for in-person attendance after the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Biden White House is barring Cabinet members from in-person speeches as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris do not adhere to the same rules.
Columbia University is planning to host six separate graduation ceremonies, which will be based on income level, race, and sexual orientation. Despite segregating the ceremonies based on facts like race, the university insists that “all students are invited to participate in these celebrations.”
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.