College of the Holy Cross, Worcester
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m. on Fitton Field on campus; rain location is the Hart Center Basketball Arena
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Speaker: Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts across the globe
Honorary Degrees: Cahill; Rev. Robert Athickal, founder of Tarumitra (Hindi for "Friends of the Trees"); Donald P. Moriarty, former member of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees and longtime head of its investment committee; James A. Welu, acclaimed scholar of 17th-century Dutch art

New England School of Law
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 23 at 11 a.m. at the Citi Performing Arts Center in the Wang Theatre
Speaker: Larry Lucchino, CEO of the Boston Red Sox
Honorary degrees: Luccino; Stacey Lucchino, chair of the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Greater Boston; Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, pediatrician for the South End Community Health Center and an anti-slavery activist

Northeastern University School of Law
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 23, 1 p.m. Matthew's Arena on campus
Degrees: approx. 200
Types of degrees: juris doctorates
Speaker: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Honorary degrees: Breyer; The Honorable Margot Botsford, appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007 to serve as an Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Boston College Law School
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 23, 2 p.m. Newton Campus Hockey Playing Field
Speaker: U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey

Amherst College
Date/Time/Place: Sunday, May 25 at 10 a.m. on the Main Quadrangle on campus
Graduates: 445
Types of Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Speaker: Anthony W. Marx, president of Amherst
Honorary Degrees: Robert H. Brown Jr. ’69, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Day Neuromuscular Research Laboratory and Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital; Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Henry A. Freedman ’62, executive director of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice; Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University; Sir Brian Urquhart, former undersecretary-general of the United Nations; and Saraswathi Vedam ’78, professor and director of the University of British Columbia’s division of midwifery

Mount Holyoke College
Date/Time/Place: Sunday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. on campus in the amphitheatre
Graduates: approximately 600
Degrees: Associate's, bachelor’s
Speaker: Carol Gilligan, noted psychologist and author
Honorary Degrees: Gilligan; mathematician Mary W. Gray; Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree; and philanthropist Harriet Levine Weissman

Wellesley College
Date/Time/Place: Friday, May 30 at 10:30 am on Severance Green on the Wellesley campus
Graduates: 600
Degrees: Bachelor’s
Speaker: Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines

Williams College
Date/Time/Place: Sunday, June 1 at 10 a.m. on the west college lawn
Graduates: 528
Degrees: Bachelor’s
Speaker: Richard Serra, Acclaimed artist and sculptor
Honorary Degrees: Serra; LeVar Burton; George Shultz; financial director and advisor Robert Lipp,; economist Frances Cairncross; women's health advocate Dr. Nawal Nour.

Hebrew College, Newton Centre
Date/Time/Place: Sunday, June 1 at 11 a.m. at the Hebrew College campus
Graduates: 75 graduates (including 11 rabbis), 132 Prozdor High School program diplomas, and 175 Me'ah Adult Learning program certificates
Degrees: Bachelor’s, master’s, cantorial ordination, and rabbinic ordination Speaker: Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Honorary degrees: Greenberg, Osvoldo Golijov, Dr. Diane Kessler, Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun, and Harvey Krueger

Urban College
Date/time/place: Sunday June 1, 6:30 p.m., the Grand Ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston
Degrees: 89
Types of Degrees: associates, certificates
Commencement Speaker: Robert Lewis, Jr., Vice President for Program, Boston Foundation

Harvard University
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, June 5 at 9:45 a.m. at the outdoor Tercentenary Theatre
Speaker: J.K Rowling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date/time/place: Friday, June 6 at 10 a.m.at Killian Court
Number of graduates: 2200
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, and doctorates
Commencement speaker: Dr. Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

Massachusetts School of Law
Date/Time/Place: Friday, June 6 at 5 p.m. at the Collins Center in Andover
Graduates: 161
Degrees: Juris doctor
Speaker: Dan Rea, WBZ radion host and attorney
Honorary Degrees: Dan Ray

Cambridge College
Date/Time/Place: Sunday, June 8, 11 a.m., Bank of America Pavilion in Boston
Graduates: 985
Degrees: Bachelor’s, master’s, certificates, doctor of education
Speaker: Diane Patrick, wife of Governor Deval Patrick
Honorary degree : Patrick, Ray Handlan of Atlantic Philanthropies