Commencements
Assumption College, Worcester
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., H.L. Rocheleau Athletic Field
Graduates: 600
Speaker: Anne Lynam Goddard, president and chief executive of Christian Children's Fund
Degrees: Certificates of advanced graduate studies, associate's degree, bachelor of arts, bachelor of business administration, bachelor of science, bachelor of liberal studies, master of arts, master of business administration
Honorary degrees: Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, the John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center; the Rev. James V. Schall, a professor of political philosophy at Georgetown University
Babson College, Wellesley
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., Upper Athletic Fields
Graduates: 795
Degrees: Bachelor of science
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist; Erik Weihenmayer, famed blind athlete
Honorary degrees: Kurzweil and Brian M. Barefoot, senior advisor to Carl Marks & Co. LP; Weihenmayer and William Markey Jr., former chairman of Babson's board (both at the afternoon ceremony for graduate students)
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Boston
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., 41 Berkeley St., Boston
Graduates: 140
Speaker: State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz
Honorary degrees: Chang-Díaz
Bentley University
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., south campus
Speaker: Ann Moore, chairman and chief executive of Time Inc.
Graduates: About 1,100
Honorary degrees: Moore; musician Herbie Hancock, who will speak at commencement for Bentley McCallum Graduate School of Business
Bridgewater State College
Date: Yesterday, 2 p.m., Boyden Quadrangle
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: 904
Honorary degree: Patrick
Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy
Date: Yesterday, 2:30 p.m., campus lawn
Speaker: David McCullough, author and historian
Graduates: 200
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, associate of arts, master of education, master of science in management, master of science in marriage and family therapy
Honorary degrees: McCullough
Gordon College, Wenham
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.mFrost Hall
Speaker: Dr. David Batstone, professor of ethics in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco
Graduates: about 375 undergraduates
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of music, master of education, master of arts and teaching, master of music education
Hampshire College, Amherst
Date: Yesterday, 11 a.m., library lawn
Speaker: Bobcat Goldthwait, filmmaker, actor, and comedian
Graduates: around 300
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Wheaton College, Norton
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., Wheaton Dimple
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: 418
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Honorary degrees: Patrick (doctor of laws); Donna Hurd Drohan, '69, (doctor of humane letters); Sandra Ohrn Moose, '63, (doctor of letters); Anne J. Neilson, '49, (doctor of science)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Yesterday, 11 a.m., quadrangle
Speaker: Ursula M. Burns, president of
Graduates: 955
Degrees: Bachelor of science, master of science, master of engineering, master of business administration, master of mathematics for education, doctor of philosophy
Honorary degrees: Burns; Helen Greiner, cofounder of iRobot Corp; John Messenger, Jr., owner and vice president of Messenger and Associates; Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of MIT 