Private colleges announce graduation dates, speakers

Assumption College
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. at the H.L. Rocheleau Athletic Field
Speaker: Very Rev. Richard Lamoureux, Superior General of the Augustinians of the Assumption
Expected graduates: 605
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Liberal Arts
Honorary degrees: Francis Carroll, Small Business Service Bureau chairman and chief executive officer; Donald H. D'Amour, chairman and chief executive officer of Big Y Foods Inc.; Michele D'Amour, educational partnership administrator of Big Y Foods, Inc.

Atlantic Union College
Sunday, May 9 at 10 a.m.

Babson College
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. at the Upper Athletic Fields
Speaker: William E. Strickland Jr., president and chief executive officer of Manchester Bidwell Corporation
Expected graduates: 400
Degrees: Bachelor of Science
Honorary degree: John J. Fernandes, president and chief executive officer of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Bay Path College
Sunday, May 16 at 1 p.m. on the Longmeadow Campus
Speaker: Michael J. Kittredge, founder of Yankee Candle Co.
Expected graduates: 370 undergraduate, 200 graduate
Degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Science, Master of Occupational Therapy
Honorary degrees: Kittredge; Helen Davis Blake, Bay Path benefactor and retired teacher; James W. Coghlin Sr., senior chairman and coach of Coghlin Companies Inc.

Bay State College
Sunday, May 23 at 11 a.m. at the Berklee Performance Center
Speaker: Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year and founder of Be the Change Inc.
Expected graduates: 157
Degrees: Associate Degrees, Bachelor of Science

Becker College
Saturday, May 8 at 11 a.m. at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts (Worcester)
Speaker: US Representatve Richard E. Neal
Expected graduates: 350
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Neal; Mary DeFeudis, investor, philanthropist, and a director of the Hanover Theatre; Laura Andrassy, director of the Andrassy Family Foundation; Barbara A. and Edward J. Wilson, co-founders of Wilson Language Training

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. at the auditorium
Speaker: Steve Pagliuca, managing director of Bain Capital and co-owner of the Boston Celtics

Bentley University
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. on South Campus
Speaker: Suze Orman, financial adviser
Expected graduates: 1,073
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Orman; Jack Cumming, chairman and executive officer of Hologic Inc.

Berklee College of Music
Saturday, May 8 at 10 a.m. at Agganis Arena, Boston University
Speaker: Kenneth Gamble, songwriter and producer
Expected graduates: 860
Degrees: Bachelor's of Music
Honorary degrees: Gamble; Leon Huff, songwriter and producer; Paco de Lucia, composer and guitarist; Angelique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and activist; Kenny Barron, jazz pianist

Boston Architectural College
Saturday, May 29 at 11 a.m. at the Old South Church, Boston

Boston Baptist College
Wednesday, May 26 at 5 p.m. at Faneuil Hall
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Stuart, professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Expected graduates: 25
Degrees: Bachelor of Biblical Studies
Honorary degrees: None

Boston College
Monday, May 24 at 10 a.m. at the Alumni Stadium
Speaker: Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric
Expected graduates: 2,269 undergraduate students, 1,090 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Master's Degrees
Honorary degrees: Immelt; Anthony Bryk, president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; John Harrington, Yawkey Foundations chairman and former Red Sox chief executive officer; Sister Mary Hart, of St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Roxbury; Joy Moore, deputy head of academy at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

Boston Conservatory
Friday, May 14 at 2 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center
Speakers: Emanuel Azenberg, Broadway producer; Bruce Marks, former artistic director of the Boston Ballet
Expected graduates: 175
Degrees: Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Music
Honorary degrees: Azenberg and Marks

Boston University
Sunday, May 16 at 1 p.m. at Nickerson Field
Speaker: Eric H. Holder Jr., US attorney general
Expected graduates: 6,000
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Masters, Doctorate, Certificate of Advanced Study
Honorary degrees: Holder; Edward Albee, playwright; William T. Coleman Jr., senior partner and counselor in O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Osamu Shimomura, Nobel laureate and BU School of Medicine professor emeritus

Brandeis University
Sunday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m. at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center
Speaker: Michael B. Oren, Israeli ambassador to the US
Expected graduates: 826 undergraduate students, 837 graduate students
Degrees: Undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees
Honorary degrees: Michael B. Oren; Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge of New York; Antonio Munoz Molina, award-winning Spanish author; Dennis B. Ross, American diplomat and author; Paul Simon, singer and songwriter

Cambridge College
Sunday, June 13 at 11 a.m. at the Bank of America Pavilion
Speaker: Dr. Tito Guerrero, III, Cambridge College president
Expected graduates: 1,700
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Education, Master of Management, Master of Psychology and Counseling, Doctorate of Education, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies
Honorary degrees: Soledad O'Brien, television journalist; Eileen M. Brown, chancellor and founder of Cambridge College

Clark University
Sunday, May 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Jefferson Academic Center Green
Speaker: Richard F. Celeste, president of Colorado College
Expected graduates: 534 undergraduate students, 471 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Administration, PhD
Honorary degrees: Celeste; Dr. Jessie Gruman, founder and president of the Center for Advancing Health; James Welu, director of the Worcester Art Museum; D'Army Bailey, civil rights activist and retired circuit court judge in Tennessee

College of the Holy Cross
Friday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. at Fitton Field (Hart Center Basketball Arena in case of rain)
Speaker: Mike Shriver, vice president and managing director of Save the Children
Expected graduates: 700
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts
Honorary degrees: Shriver; Rev. William A. Barry, author; Rev. Sally Bingham, Episcopal priest and Canon for the Environment in the Diocese of California; Sidney Callahan, author and scholar

Curry College
Sunday, May 16 at 10 a.m. at the D. Forbes Will Athletic Complex
Speaker: Richard J. Daniels, president and chief executive officer of GateHouse Media New England
Expected graduates:
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in Criminal Justice, Master of Business Administration, Master of Education
Honorary degrees: Daniels; Suzin Bartley, executive director of the Children's Trust Fund

Dean College
Saturday, May 8 at 11 a.m. at Grant Field
Speaker: Dr. Paula Rooney, Dean College president
Expected graduates: 296
Degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Bachelor of Arts

Eastern Nazarene College
Saturday, May 15 at 2:30 p.m. on the lawn (gym in case of rain)
Speaker: Tom Nees, founder and director of Leading to Serve Inc.
Expected graduates: 150
Degrees: Associates, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Art

Emerson College
Monday, May 17 at 11 a.m. at the Citi Performing Arts Center (The Wang Theatre)
Speaker: Bernard Cornwell, historical novelist
Expected graduates: 850
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Honorary degrees: Cornwell; Melvin B. Miller, founder, publisher, and editor of the Bay State Banner

Emmanuel College
Saturday, May 8 at 11 a.m. on campus
Speaker: Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health
Expected graduates: 550
Degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Education, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies
Honorary degrees: Joseph Corcoran, community leader in real estate development; Reverend Dr. Ray Hammond, founder and pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston; Victoria Reggie Kennedy, president of Common Sense about Kids and Guns, widow of Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Maureen and Frank Wilkens

Endicott College
Saturday, May 15 at 10:30 a.m. at the Endicott Stadium
Speaker: Keisha Nash Whitaker, model, television host, and filmmaker
Expected graduates: 501 undergraduate students, 165 graduate students
Degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Education, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration
Honorary degrees: Whitaker; Eijk van Otterloo, founding partner of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, & Co.; Rose-Marie van Otterloo, investor and philanthropist

Episcopal Divinity School
Thursday, May 20 at 2 p.m. at the First Church, Cambridge
Speaker: Marshall Ganz, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School
Expected graduates: 26
Degrees: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theological Studies, Doctor of Ministry, Graduate Certificate
Honorary degrees: Ganz; Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut; E. Denise Simmons, former mayor of Cambridge

Fisher College
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. at the Back Bay Events Center
Speaker: Jim Braude, NECN host and co-host of a radio talk show on 96.9 FM
Expected graduates: 200
Degrees: Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Anita Salmu, Fisher College alumna

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Sunday, May 16 at 3 p.m. on the Olin College Great Lawn
Speaker: Kathleen Stephens, US Ambassador to South Korea
Expected graduates: 85
Degrees: Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Gordon College
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. on the campus quad
Speaker: Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Expected graduates: 344 undergraduate students, 52 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, Master of Education, Master of Music Education

Hampshire College
Saturday, May 22 at 11 a.m. at the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn
Speaker: Peter Cole, poet and translator
Expected graduates: 320
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts

Harvard University
Thursday, May 27 at 9:45 a.m. at the Tercentenary Theatre
Speaker: David H. Souter, former US Supreme Court justice
Honorary degrees: TBA on May 27

Hebrew College
Sunday, June 6 at 10 a.m. at Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hill
Speaker: Edgar Bronfman, philanthropist and former chief executive officer of the Seagram Company Ltd.
Expected graduates: 66
Degrees: Certificates, bachelor degrees, master degrees, and ordinations in several religious fields
Honorary degrees: Bronfman; Betty Brudnick, founder of the Brudnick Center for the Study of Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University, and the Brudnick Neuroscientific Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester; Paula E. Hyman, Yale professor of modern Jewish history and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research

Hellenic College – Holy Cross School of Theology
Saturday, May 15

Lasell College
Sunday, May 16 at 11 a.m. at Taylor Field
Speaker: Josh Kraft, president and chief executive officer of the Boys & Girls Club of Boston
Expected graduates: 231 undergraduate students, 27 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science
Honorary degree: Kraft

Lesley University
Wednesday, May 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Speaker: Arne Duncan, US secretary of education
Expected graduates: 487 undergraduate students, 2244 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Education, Doctor of Philosophy, Certificate of Advance Graduate Study
Honorary degrees: Victoria Reggie Kennedy, president of Common Sense about Kids and Guns; Chinua Achebe, poet, novelist, and Brown University professor; Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist; Edward M. Kennedy, late US senator

Longy School of Music
Sunday, May 16 at 2 p.m. at the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Speaker: Mark Morris, dancer and choreographer
Expected graduates: 6 undergraduate students, 79 graduate students
Degrees: Undergraduate Diploma, Master of Music, Graduate Performance Diploma, Dalcroze Certificate, Dalcroze License and Artist Diploma

Marian Court College
Wednesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. on campus
Speaker: Valerie Reyes, corporate trainer for Exit Realty
Expected graduates: 70
Degrees: Associate Degrees, Certificates

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston campus
Friday, May 14 at 10 a.m. at the Seaport World Trade Center
Expected graduates: 531
Speaker: Richard E. Griffin, founder of Critical Care Systems, Inc.
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene, Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Science, Master of Science, Master of Applied Natural Products, Master in Physician Assistant Studies, Doctor of Pharmacy, PhD, Post Baccalaureate
Honorary degree: Griffin

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester/Manchester campus
Saturday, May 15 at 1:30 p.m. at the DCU Center
Speaker: Michael F. Collins, MD, Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Medical School
Expected graduates: 206
Degrees: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Pharmacy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, June 4 at 9:45 a.m. at Killian Court
Speaker: Raymond S. Stata, chairman and co-founder of Analog Devices, Inc.
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, doctorates

Massachusetts School of Law
Friday, June 4 at 5 p.m. at Collins Center, Andover
Speaker: Phillip Rapoza, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court
Expected graduates: 160
Degrees: Juris Doctor
Honorary degree: Rapoza

Merrimack College
Sunday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m. at the Volpe Athletic Center
Speaker: Ron Hansen, author
Expected graduates: 509
Degrees: Associate in Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Education
Honorary degrees: Hansen; Rev. James A. Wenzel, Director of the Center for Augustinian Study and Legacy at Merrimack College; H. Bridget (Scanlon) Shaheen, Executive Director of Lazarus House Ministries in Lawrence

MGH Institute of Health Professions
Saturday, May 8 at 2 p.m. at the Hynes Convention Center
Speaker: Edward O'Neill, University of California San Francisco professor and director of the Center for Health Professions
Expected graduates: 353
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Doctorate, Master of Science, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Certificate of Advanced Study

Montserrat College of Art
Friday, May 28 at 10 a.m. at the Cabot Street Cinema Theatre
Speaker: Barry Moser, illustrator
Expected graduates: 60
Degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts
Honorary degree: Moser

Mount Holyoke College
Sunday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m. at the Richard Glenn Gettell Amphitheater (Kendall Field House in case of rain)
Speaker: Gail Collins, author and New York Times columnist
Expected graduates: 600
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Collins; Joanne V. Creighton, outgoing Mount Holyoke president; Sheila Barshay Goldbloom, educator, social worker, and activist; Victoria Hale, world health entrepreneur

Mount Ida College
Friday, May 21 at 11 a.m., lower athletic field
Speaker: Dr. Carol J. Matteson, retiring president of Mount Ida College
Expected graduates: 280
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: David B. Cohen, former mayor of Newton; Reverend Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D., founder of Do the Write Thing, a creative writing and mentoring program

New England College of Business and Finance
Saturday, June 26 at 10:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency, Boston
Speaker: Michael Shipman, Vice president, talent and organizational development, Rockland Trust Company
Expected Graduates: About 100
Degrees: Associate in Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Science in Finance, Master of Science in Business Ethics and Compliance

New England College of Optometry
Friday, May 28 at 10 a.m. at the Back Bay Events Center
Speaker: Dr. Lu Fan, Wenzhou Medical College in China; Dr. Randolph Brooks, president of American Optometric Association
Expected graduates: 118
Degrees: Doctor of Optometry, Master of Science in Vision Science
Honorary degrees: Dr. Lu Fan; Dr. Randolph Brooks

New England Conservatory
Sunday, May 23 at 3 p.m. at Jordan Hall
Speaker: Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker
Expected graduates: 240 undergraduate and graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Graduate Diploma
Honorary degrees: Ross, Quincy Jones, music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, and film composer; Roger Kellaway, pianist and composer; Karen Tuttle, violinist and teacher; Louis Andriessen, composer

Newbury College
Sunday, May 16 at 11 a.m. on campus

Nichols College
Saturday, May 8 at 10:30 a.m. on the college's softball field
Speaker: US Senator Scott Brown
Expected graduates: 355
Degrees: Associate of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Leadership
Honorary degrees: Brown; Dominic C. Varisco, Nichols trustee from 2003-2010 (posthumous)

Northeastern University
Friday, May 7 at 10:30 a.m. at TD Bank Garden
Speaker: Kenneth Chenault, chief executive officer and chairman of American Express
Expected graduates: 3,231
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation; Victoria Reggie Kennedy; C.K. Prahalad, professor of strategy at the University of Michigan; Harold Hongju Koh, legal adviser to US State Department and former dean of Yale Law School

Pine Manor College
Sunday, May 9 at 11 a.m. on the commencement lawn
Speakers: Gloria Reuben, actress and social activist; Trish Karter, co-founder of Dancing Deer Baking Company; Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh, sculptor
Expected graduates: 50
Degrees: Bachelor of Art, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Kubler Kavanagh, Karter, and Reubens

Quincy College
Saturday, May 22 at 1 p.m. at the Quincy Marriott
Speaker: Carmen Mariano, president of Archbishop Williams High School
Expected graduates: 245
Degrees: Associate in Science, Associate in Arts, Certificate

Regis College
Saturday, May 15 at 10 a.m. in the Tower Gardens
Speakers: Rev. Carney Gavin, archaeologist; Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Chief Scientific Officer at Cytonome
Expected graduates: 324 undergraduate students, 147 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Science, Master of Arts, Post-master's certificate in nursing, Doctorate in Nursing Practice
Honorary degrees: Gavin and Villa-Komaroff

School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Sunday, May 23 at 4 p.m. at the Berklee College of Music
Speakers: Cindy Kleine, filmmaker, and graduate of school; student speaker, Merideth Hillbrand
Expected graduates: 134 undergraduate students, 70 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Fifth Year Certificate, Diploma

Simmons College
Friday, May 14 at 10 a.m. at the Bank of America Pavilion
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, poet
Expected graduates: 530
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degrees: Alexander; Dr. Beverly Malone, chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing; Roslyn Jaffe, co-founder of Dress Barn; Brewster Kahle, computer scientist; Frances Moore Lappe, author and social activist; Dr. Marion Walter, former Simmons mathematics professor

Smith College
Sunday, May 16 at 10 a.m. on the campus quad
Speaker: Rachel Maddow, MSNBC political analyst
Expected graduates: 733 undergraduate students, 85 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Education of the Deaf, Diploma in American Studies, Master of Science, Master of Education, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts
Honorary degrees: Maddow; Martha Myers, dance composer and teacher; Victoria "Tori" Murden McClure, first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, first woman to ski to the geographic South Pole; Peggy M. Shepard, co-founder and executive director of We Act for Environmental Justice; Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan, advocate for women and children

Springfield College
Sunday, May 16 at 9:30 a.m. at MassMutual Center
Speaker: Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated writer
Expected graduates: 660
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
Honorary degree: Wolff

Stonehill College
Sunday, May 23 at 10 a.m. on the quadrangle lawn (Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex in case of rain)
Speaker: John "Jack" Connors Jr., advertising executive
Expected graduates: 540
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Honorary degrees: Connors; Bishop Norbert Strotmann, of the Diocese of Chosica in Lima, Peru; Rev. Robert J. Kruse, priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross for 50 years; Rita Welch, nursing home industry pioneer

Suffolk University
Sunday, May 23 at 2 p.m. at the Bank of America Pavilion
Speaker: Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health
Expected graduates: 1,192 undergraduate students; 723 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, doctoral
Honorary degrees: Farmer; Dr. Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, vice dean for community affairs and health police at Tulane University School of Medicine; Wyc Grousbeck, chief executive officer and co-owner of the Boston Celtics; Charles Burnett, independent filmmaker

Tufts University
Sunday, May 23 at 9 a.m. on the Green
Speaker: Sol Gittleman, Tufts professor and former provost
Expected graduates: 1,348 undergraduate students, 1,740 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Medicine, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Honorary degrees: Gittleman; Richard Dorsay, retired professor of radiology and retired chief of radiology at Kaiser Hospital in South San Francisco; Kristina M. Johnson, under secretary of energy, former provost at the Johns Hopkins University; Ann Hobson Pilot, first African-American principal in the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Wellesley College
Friday, May 28 at 10:30 a.m. on the academic quad
Speaker: Lynn Sherr, broadcast journalist
Expected graduates: 600
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts

Wentworth Institute of Technology
Sunday, May 16 at 10 a.m. on the quad
Speaker: Michael Maltzan, architect and design principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture
Expected graduates: 200 undergraduate students, 84 graduate students
Degrees: Associate Degree in Applied Science, Bachelor of Science, Master of Architecture
Honorary degree: Maltzan

Wheaton College
Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m. on the Dimple (Haas Athletic Center in case of rain)
Speaker: Ann Curry, NBC "Today" anchor
Expected graduates: 379
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts
Honorary degrees: Curry; Edward William Brooke, III, first African-American elected by popular vote to the US Senate; Diana Davis Spencer, long-time Wheaton trustee and current trustee emerita; Dr. Gillian Shepherd Mestre, allergist

Wheelock College
Friday, May 21 at 11 a.m. at Temple Israel, Boston
Speaker: Paul Reville, Massachusetts secretary of education
Expected graduates: 140 undergraduate students, 71 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Science, Master of Social Work
Honorary degrees: Reville; Robert A. Lincoln, senior vice president of Boston Trust & Investment Management Company; Susan Bruml Simon, founder of Admissions Advantage

Williams College
Sunday, June 6 at 10 a.m. on the West College Lawn
Speaker: Jay McInerney, author
Honorary degrees: McInerney; Martha Coakley, Massachusetts attorney general; G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Adam F. Falk, 17th president of Williams College; Stephanie Wilson, astronaut

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Saturday, May 15 at 11 a.m. on the campus quad (Harrington Auditorium in case of rain)
Speaker: Curt Schilling, retired Red Sox pitcher and founder of 38 Studios
Expected graduates: 765 undergraduate students, 440 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering, Master of Mathematics for Education, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Honorary degrees: Schilling; John Bassett, outgoing Clark University president; Angela Belcher, MIT materials scientist; Gordon Lankton, Nypro Inc. chairman

Note to colleges: For updates to the list, please e-mail Stefanie Geisler at sgeisler@globe.com