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The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2011:

  • Alcorn State University: William H. Gray III, past president of the United Negro College Fund.
  • Bradley University: Ray LaHood, U.S. secretary of transportation.
  • Central Penn College: June Werdlow Rogers, retired special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England division.
  • Cooper Union: Malcolm Gladwell, the author.
  • Lehman College of the City University of New York: Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate.
  • Marquette University: David McCullough, the biographer.
  • Mills College: Beate Sirota Gordon, pioneer for women's rights.
  • Prince George's Community College: Rushern L. Baker III, the county executive.
  • Randolph-Macon College: James (Bud) Robertson Jr., executive director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, at Virginia Tech.
  • Southern Methodist University: U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.

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