West College lawn.
Number of graduates: 528.
Degrees: Bachelor's.
Speaker: Richard Serra, artist and sculptor.
Honorary degrees: Serra; actor LeVar Burton; George Shultz, former US secretary of state; Robert Lipp, financial director and adviser; economist Frances Cairncross; and Dr. Nawal Nour, women's health advocate.
Hebrew College
On campus, Newton Centre.
Number of 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 of Boston
Grand ballroom, Park Plaza Hotel.
Number of degrees: 89.
Degrees: Associate's, certificates.
Speaker: Robert Lewis, Jr. of the Boston Foundation.
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
Four Points Sheraton, Norwood.
Number of graduates: 60.
Degrees: Master's and doctorates.
Speaker: State Representative Ruth B. Balser, chairwoman of the state's Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
Honorary degrees: Balser; author and psychologist Thomas J. Cottle; and Steven Grossman, president and chief executive of Grossman Marketing Group.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
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.![]()


