Weekend graduations

Brandeis University
Sunday: 10:30 a.m., 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; Israel Gutman, Holocaust scholar; Stef Wertheimer, Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist

Clark University, Worcester
Sunday: 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: 537 baccalaureates; 359 masters; and 32 doctaral degrees
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

Curry College, Milton
Sunday: 10 a.m., D. Forbes Will Athletic Complex
Graduates: 835
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of sciences, master of business administration, master of education, master of arts in criminal justice, master of science in nursing
Speaker: Dr. Joan Wallace-Benjamin, chief executive officer of Home for Little Wanderers.
Honorary degrees: Dr. Wallace-Benjamin, honorary doctor of humane letters; and Melvin B. Drapkin, vice chairman of Curry College Board of Trustees, honorary doctor of business administration.

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham
Sunday: 3 p.m., the Great Lawn
Speaker: William A. Wulf, president emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering
Graduates: 69
Degrees: Bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering, bachelor of science in engineering, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering

Lasell College, Newton
Sunday: 11 a.m., Taylor Field
Speaker: Marian Heard, CEO of Oxen Hill Partners and former president of United Way Mass Bay and United Way New England
Graduates: 241 baccalaureates and 40 masters degrees.
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, master of science in management
Honorary Degrees: Heard, honorary doctorate of letters

Lesley University, Cambridge
Date: Saturday, undergraduates at 10 a.m., graduates at 2 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion
Speakers: Marc Brown, creator of ‘‘Arthur’’ series on PBS; Luba Lukova, artist who works for social justice and social change, Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare and Company
Graduates: 3,000
Degrees: Bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of fine arts, master of education, master of arts, master of science, doctorate of philosophy
Honorary degrees: Brown, Lukova, and Packer

Fisher College, Boston
Date: Saturday, at 11 a.m., John Hancock Hall
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 in arts, associate in science, bachelor of science, and certificates of early childhood education; legal assistant; medical assistant; medical coding
Honorary degrees: Marion Drew Francis, ’47, of Uxbridge and M. Jane Strott Eaton, ’47, of Baldwinville

Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Sunday: 2 p.m., Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Cambridge
Speaker: Barry Shiffman, director of music programs for the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada
Graduates: 73
Degrees: Undergraduate diplomas, master of music, graduate performance diploma, Dalcroze Certificate, Dalcroze License and Artist Diploma

Smith College, Northampton
Sunday: 10 a.m., Quadrangle
Graduates: 680
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science
Speaker: Tammy Baldwin, a Smith alumna and the first woman to serve in the House of Representatives from her native Wisconsin
Honorary degrees: Tammy Baldwin, Jenny Holzer, noted installation artist; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, print and broadcast journalist; Claire Fraser-Liggett, microbiologist.

Suffolk University
Sunday: 2 p.m., Bank of America Pavilion
Graduates: 1,217
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science
Speaker: Ted Koppel, senior news analyst for National Public Radio and a contributing analyst for BBC America’s “World News America’’.
Honorary degrees: Koppel, honorary doctor of journalism; Martha Coakley, honorary doctor of laws; the Hon. Robert L. Carter, the U.S. district court judge of the Southern District of New York, honorary doctor of laws; Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, honorary doctor of laws; U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, honorary doctor of laws; Peter Brooke, chairman and CEO Advent International Corp., doctor of commercial science; Angela Diaz, director of Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, honorary doctor of science; David Hoberman, Manderville Films, honorary doctor of humanities; and Josh McCall, chairman and CEO of Jack Morton Worldwide, honorary doctor of commercial science.

Tufts University
Sunday: 9 a.m., Academic Green, Medford/Somerville campus
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: almost 3,000
Degrees: bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral
Honorary degrees: Patrick; David Burke, broadcasting executive, labor expert, and government official; Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus and senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and respected voice in journalism, politics, academia and public policy; honorary doctorate of laws;
Sister Margaret Leonard, executive director of Boston's Project Hope; Patricia Q. Stonesifer, founding CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates; C. Megan Urry, chairwoman of the physics department at Yale University; Robert A. Weinberg, a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the director of the Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Stonehill College, Easton
Sunday: 10 a.m., in the Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex
Graduates: 568
Degrees: bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in business administration
Speaker: M. Elizabeth Fini, vice dean for research at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Honorary degrees: Elizabeth Fini; Most Reverend George W. Coleman, Bishop of diocese of Fall River; John Shaughnessy ('52), of Shaughnessy & Ahern Co.; Robert Wilkinson, retired professor from Villanova University and Stonehill

Framingham State College
Sunday: 2 p.m., Framingham Village Green
Speaker: Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Graduates: 621 bachelor degrees and 407 graduate degrees

Worcester State College
Sunday: 1 p.m., DCU Center
Graduates: 891 undergraduates, 231 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, graduate degrees
Speaker: Dottie Manning ('88), founder of the “Walk to Cure Cancer” in Worcester
Honorary Degrees: Manning (doctor of humane letters); Annette A. Rafferty, founder of Abby’s House (doctor of humane letters)

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
Sunday: 10 a.m., Quadrangle
Speaker: Peter Campot, CEO of William A. Berry & Son Inc.
Graduates: 150
Degrees: bachelor of science, associates degrees
Honorary degrees: Campot; Edward A. Bond, chairman and CEO of Bond Brothers, Inc.; benefactor Eugenia Sweeney