List of college commencements in the region

UMass Dartmouth
Sunday May 24, 2009 10:15 a.m. Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater
Speaker: Sara J. Bloomfield, director, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Graduates: 1,300
Honorary degrees: Bloomfield; William N. Whelan, entrepreneur and community leader

UMass Lowell
Sat., May 30, 10:00 a.m., Tsongas Arena
Speaker: Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and former Tennessee congressman
Graduates: 2,200
Honorary degrees: Bernard Amadei, professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder; George L. Duncan, founding chairman of Enterprise Bank; Chaz Maviyane-Davies, award-winning graphic designer; and Robert C. Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management.

Bridgewater State College
Saturday, May 16, 2:00 p.m., Boyden Quadrangle
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick

Fitchburg State College
Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., Campus Quadrangle
Speaker: Emmy Award-winner Melanie Perkins, whose powerful documentary “Have You Seen Andy?” earned top honors in last year’s Best Investigative Journalism category.
Graduates: 500
Honors: Outgoing trustee Peter Alcock will receive an honorary degree; Barbara Wilson will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award; and Phillip M. Grzewinski will receive the Community Service Award

Framingham State College
Sunday, May 17, 2 p.m., Framingham Village Green.
Speaker: Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Graduates: 350

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)
Friday, May 22, 1:00 p.m., Evans Way Park
Speaker: Fashion designer Joseph Abboud
Graduates: 360
Honorary degrees: Abboud; members of the Monuments Men, a group that helped to protect monuments and other cultural treasures from destruction during World War II.

Mass. College of Liberal Arts, North Adams
May 16, 11 a.m., Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium
Speaker: Author, musician, and composer James McBride
Honorary degrees: Sarah "Sally" Goodrich, educator and co-founder of Families of September 11; college alumnus Brian K. Fitzgerald, executive director of the Business-Higher Education Forum

Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Sat., June 20, 10 a.m., Parade Field
Speaker: author Nathaniel Philbrick
Graduates: about 250

Salem State College
Sat., May 16, 10a.m., O'Keefe Center
Speaker: US Representative John Tierney
Graduates: 1,400
Honorary degrees: Tierney, Red Sox great Johnny Pesky; Angela A. Orlando San Filippo, Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership Inc.

Westfield State College
May 16, 10:30 a.m., campus green
Speaker: Actor, author Hill Harper
Honorary degrees: Harper; Mark C. Volpe, managing director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Rachelle S. Cohen, editorial page editor for the Boston Herald; Milton R. and Ruth C. Bass, authors and journalists; Carmen C. Massimiano Jr., Berkshire County sheriff; the late Donald W. Blair, Westfield businessman, civic leader and volunteer
Graduates: 1,280

Worcester State College
May 17, 1:00 p.m., DCU Center
Speaker: Dottie Manning, founder of the “Walk to Cure Cancer” in Worcester
Honorary Degree: Annette A. Rafferty, founder of Abby’s House

PRIVATE COLLEGES

Amherst College
Sunday, May 24, 10 a.m., Main Quad
Speaker: Anthony W. Marx, college president

Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre
Sat., May 16, 2 p.m., First Baptist Church
Speaker: Professor Brita Gill-Austarn and student Beth Richeson
Degrees: Master of arts, master of divinity, master of sacred theology, doctorates of ministry

Anna Maria College, Paxton
Sat., May 9, 10 a.m. Hanover Theatre for Performing Arts
Speaker: Most Reverend Robert J. McManus
Graduates: 255
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, master degrees
Honorary Degrees: McManus; Sister Doris M. Gagnon; attorney John W. Spillane

Assumption College, Worcester
Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., H.L. Rocheleau Athletic Field
Speaker: Anne Lynam Goddard, president and CEO of the 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, bachelor of business studies, master of arts, master of business administration
Honorary degrees: Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, professor emeritus of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center; Rev. James V. Schall, a professor of government at Georgetown University

Atlantic Union College, Lancaster
Sunday, May 10, 10 a.m., W.G. Nelson Recreation Center
Speaker: Jeffrey Brown, president of the Bermuda Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Graduates: 59
Degrees: Associate of science, bachelor of science, bachelor of arts

Babson College, Wellesley
Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., Upper Athletic Fields
Degrees: Bachelor of science
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist, and Erik Weihenmayer, famed blind athlete
Honorary degrees: Kurzweil; Brian M. Barefoot, senior advisor to Carl Marks & Co. LP.

Baptist Bible College East/Boston Baptist College, Hyde Park
Wednesday, May 20, 5 p.m., Faneuil Hall
Speaker: Dr. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Graduates: 24
Degrees: associate’s and bachelor

Bay State College
Sunday, May 17, 11 a.m., Berklee Performance Center
Speaker: Donald Rodman, president of Rodman Ride for Kids and Rodman Ford, Lincoln-Mercury
Graduates: About 130
Degrees: associate’s and bachelor’s

Becker College, Worcester and Leicester
Sat., May 9, noon, DCU Center
Speaker: Ed Fendell, former NASA official.
Graduates: about 311
Degrees: associate’s and bachelor’s
Honorary Degrees: Fendell; Michael Angelini, chairman of the law firm Bowditch & Dewey

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Boston
Saturday, May 16, 10a.m., 41 Berkeley St., Boston
Graduates: 170
Speaker: State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz
Honorary degrees: Chang-Diaz

Bentley University
Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., South Campus
Speaker: Ann Moore, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Inc.,
Graduates: About 1,000
Honorary degrees: Moore; musician Herbie Hancock, who will speak at commencement for Bentley McCallum Graduate School of Business.

Berklee College of Music, Boston
Sat., May 9, 10 a.m., Agganis Arena
Speaker: Smokey Robinson, famed singer-songwriter, record producer, and record executive
Graduates: 856
Degrees: Bachelor of music and professional diploma
Honorary degrees: Robinson; Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer; Linda Ronstadt, vocalist and entertainer; George Massenburg, award-winning recording engineer and inventor

Boston Architectural Center
Sat., May 30, 11 a.m., Old South Church
Graduates: 100
Degrees: Bachelor of architecture, bachelor of interior design, bachelor of design studies, master of architecture, master of interior design
Speaker: Marshall Purnell, first African-American president of American Institute of Architects
Degrees: Purnell; William Hodgins, interior designer; Carol R. Johnson, landscape architect; Frederick “Tad” Stahl, architect

Boston College
Monday, May 18, 10 a.m., Alumni Stadium
Graduates: about 3,000
Degrees: Bachelor’s, master, doctorate’s
Speaker: Ken Burns, filmmaker
Honorary degrees: Burns; Margot C. Connell, philanthropist and supporter of Catholic education; Joseph E. Corcoran, BC alumnus, real estate developer and pioneer of mixed-income housing; BC Professor Daniel J. Harrington, acclaimed Biblical scholar and author; Carolyn A. Lynch, volunteer leader and philanthropist; Benaree Pratt Wiley, advocate of leadership roles for people of color in the business community

Boston Conservatory
Sat., May 16, 2:30 p.m., Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium at the Hynes Convention Center
Speakers: Barbara Cook, singer and actress; Mary Rodgers, composer and screenwriter
Graduates: 179
Degrees: bachelor of music,is University
Sunday, May 17, 10:30, Gosman Sports and Convocation Center
Speaker: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.
Honorary degrees: Booker; James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera; singer Marilyn Horne; choreographer Bill T. Jones; Israel Gutman, Holocaust scholar; Stef Wertheimer, Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist

Cambridge College
Sun., June 7, 11 a.m., Bank of America Pavilion
Speaker: Diana Chapman Walsh, former president of Wellesley College.
Graduates: 800
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, master of arts, master of education, master of management, certificate of advanced graduate studies, doctor of education
Honorary degrees: Chapman; Callie Crossley, media commentator and producer;

Clark University
Sunday, May 17, 1:30 p.m., on the Green
Speaker: Steven A. Minter, executive in residence and fellow in the Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice, Cleveland State University
Graduates: 527
Degrees: bachelor
Honorary degrees: Lois B. Green, independent consultant for several central Massachusetts nonprofit organizations and a member of the UMass Medical School faculty; David Ward, former president of the American Counsel on Education from 2001-2008

College of the Holy Cross
May 22, 10:30 a.m., Fitton Field
Graduates: about 675
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Speaker: US Senator Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania
Honorary degrees: Casey; Rev. George V. Coyne, acclaimed Vatican astronomer; Sister Maureen Fay O.P., former president of University of Detroit Mercy; Ogretta McNeil, former chair of the Holy Cross psychology department; Bartlett Sher, Tony Award-winning director and artistic director of the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.

Curry College, Milton
Sunday, May 17, 10 a.m., D. Forbes Will Athletic Complex
Speaker: Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president and chief executive office, New England Home for Little Wanderers
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of sciences, master of business administration, master of education, master of arts in criminal justice
Honorary degrees: Wallace-Benjamin; Melvin B. Drapkin, vice chairman, Curry College Board of Trustees
Graduates: 816

Dean College, Franklin
Sat., May 9, 11:00 a.m., Grant Field
Speaker: Walter J. Handelsman, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
Graduates: Estimated 297
Degrees: bachelor and associate’s

Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy
Saturday, May 16, 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

Emerson College
Monday, May 18, 11 a.m., Citi Performing Arts Center
Speaker: actor and activist Blair Underwood
Degrees: bachelor’s degrees
Honorary degrees: Underwood; director Milos Forman

Emmanuel College, Boston
Sat., May 9, 11 a.m., on the campus
Speaker: Dennis Lehane, author
Graduates: 588
Degrees: bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of science, master of arts, master of education
Honorary degrees: Lehane, Paul Guzzi, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; Catherine Costello, founder and director of the Mass Spectrometry Resource and the Cardiovascular Proteomics Center at Boston University School of Medicine

Endicott College, Beverly
Sat., May 16, 10:30 a.m., the stadium on campus
Speaker: Dan Rea, television journalist, attorney, and radio show host
Degrees: bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, associate’s in arts, associate’s in science, master of education, master of business administration
Honorary degrees: Rea; Rev. Brinton Webb Woodward, Jr., director of the commission for American and International Schools Abroad, New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge
Thursday, May 14, 2 p.m.,ynod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Fisher College, Boston
Sat., May 16, 11 a.m., John Hancock Hall, Boston
Speaker: Charles Vert Willie, professor of education emeritus at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former chairman of the Department of Sociology and vice president of student affairs at Syracuse University.
Graduates: 322
Degrees: Associate’s in arts, associate’s in science, bachelor of science, and certificates of early childhood education; legal assistant; medical assistant; medical coding
Honorary degrees: Marion Drew Francis and M. Jane Strott Eaton ’47

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, NeedhamSunday, May 17, 3 p.m., the Great Lawn
Speaker: William A. Wulf, president emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering
Graduates: 72
Degrees: Bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering, bachelor of science in engineering, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering

Gordon College, Wenham
Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., in front of Frost Hall
Graduates: about 375 undergrads
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of music, master of education, master of arts and teaching, master of music education
Speaker: Dr. David Batstone, professor of ethics in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco

Hampshire College, Amherst
Sat., May 16, 11 a.m., Library Lawn
Speaker: Bobcat Goldthwait, filmmaker, actor, and comedian
Graduates: around 300
Degrees: Bachelor of arts

Harvard UniversityThurs., June 4, 9:45 a.m., Tercentenary Theatre
Speaker at afternoon alumni exercises: US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in physics

Hebrew College, Newton Centre
Sunday, May 31, 10 a.m., Congregational Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hill
Speaker: College President Daniel Lehmann
Graduates: 53
Degrees: Rabbinical Ordination, Cantorial Ordination, master and certificates in Jewish education
Honorary degrees: Nancy Falchuk, national president of Hadassah; Dr. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School

ost-baccalaureate certificate, certificate of advanced study
Speaker: Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, executive director, Health Care For All, Boston