Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Date/Time/Place: Friday May 23 at 1 p.m. on the college campus
Graduates: Approximately 360 undergraduate and graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor's and master's
Speakers: Artists Jun Kaneko and Edgar Heap of Birds
Honorary Degrees: Jun Kaneko and Edgar Heap of Birds

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 23 at 2 p.m. at the Mullins Center for graduate students.
Saturday, May 24 at 12:30 p.m. at the Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium for undergraduates Graduates: about 4,000 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, and doctorate
Honorary degrees: Actor and alumnus Bill Pullman and retired multinational food executive and alumnus Charles Feldberg

Framingham State College
Date/Time/Place: Sunday May 25 at 2 p.m. on the Framingham Village Green for undergraduates and 10 a.m. in the college’s performing arts center for graduate students
Graduates: Approximately 700 undergraduate and 450 graduate students
Speaker: Robert Maresca, president of Bose Corporation will address undergraduates and Patricia Plummer, chancellor of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education will address graduate students
Honorary degrees: Maresca, and Philip Dooher, former vice president for enrollment management at Framingham State College

Cape Cod Community College
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, May 29 at 4 p.m. at the Cape Cod Melody Tent
Graduates: approximately 550
Degrees: Associate's and certificates
Speaker: David Kirkpatrick of Plymouth Rock Studios and former CEO of Paramount, Disney, and Touchstone
Honorary Degree: Patricia Will, of Dennis

Massachusetts Bay Community College
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. on the Wellesley Hills Campus
Graduates: 625
Degrees: Associate's
Speaker: Dr. Guillermo Linares, Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
No honorary degrees

Springfield Technical Community College
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, May 29 at the Massachusetts Mutual Center
Graduates: Between 800 and 900
Degrees: Associate's
Speaker: an unannounced student speaker will address the class
No honorary degrees

University of Massachusetts, Boston
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 30 at 9:30 a.m. on Campus Center lawn
Graduates: 1,802 undergraduate and 935 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, and doctorate
Speaker: Humanitarian Gloria White-Hammond
Honorary degrees: Ronald E. Logue, the chairman and CEO of State Street Corporation; Sarah E. Moten, Ed. D., education division chief for the Africa Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Dan Rea ’70, now the host of “Nightside with Dan Rea” on WBZ Radio

Berkshire Community College
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 30 at 4:30 p.m. at Tanglewood
Graduates: 309
Degrees: Associate's and certificates
Speaker: Chancellor of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Patricia Plummer, PhD.
No honorary degrees

Bristol Community College
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, May 31 at 11 a.m. under a tent on the Elsbree Street campus
Graduates: Approximately 1,000
Degrees: Associate's and certificates
No honorary degrees

Holyoke Community College
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, May 31 at 10 a.m. on the O’Connell Memorial Soccer Field
Graduates: Between 800 and 900 expected
Degrees: Certificates and associate's
No honorary degrees

Bunker Hill Community College
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, May 31 at 11 a.m. on the Charlestown campus
Graduates: 800 expected
Degrees: Associate's
Speaker: Carol R. Johnson, superintendent of Boston Public Schools
No honorary degrees

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, May 31 at the Tsongas Arena
Graduates: About 2,000
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, and doctorate
Speaker: Sen. John Kerry
Honorary Degrees: Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks Inc.; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years experience; Mary Jo Leahey, class of 1937; Gerald Martone, class of 1979, director of Humanitarian Affairs at the International Rescue Committee; Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, June 1 at 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Honorary Degrees: Margaret H. Marshall, chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Dr. Leonard J. Morse, former health commissioner for the City of Worcester

Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, June 21 at 10 a.m. on the Parade Field
Graduates: Approximately 200
Degrees: Bachelor's and master's
Speaker: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams
Honorary Degrees: Williams, Captain Albert B. Wilson, US Rep. John Olver, Joseph Dockery