Class of 2007 Fever

Congratulations to everyone graduating this month! As NYU's commencement was today, with speaker jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, we decided to list the many NYC commencement speakers, with help from The Chronicle of Higher Education (if we've missed any or gotten it wrong, let us know in comments):

Barnard College: Anna Deveare Smith, playwright-actress
CUNY Lehman College: Representative Charles Rangel
CUNY Brooklyn College: Roberta S. Matthews, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Brooklyn College
CUNY Queens College: Susan Isaacs, novelists
College of Staten Island: Mayor Bloomberg
John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Taylor Branch, historian; Deborah E. Lipstadt, professor at Emory University; Richard Delgado, legal scholar; Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist
Medgar Evers College: Judge Theodore T. Jones, Jr.
The William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY: Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J.
Baruch College: William Macaulay, chairman and CEO of First Reserve Corporation
Borough of Manhattan Community College: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
Hunter College: Jeff Greenfield, CBS political correspondent
Bronx Community College: Dr. Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon
York College: Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon
NYC College of Technology: State Senator Eric Adams
Yeshiva University: Tim Russert, NBC Washington Bureau Chief
Fordham University: Willie Randolph, Mets manager
Manhattan College: Jan Crawford Greenburg, ABC News Legal correspondent
Juilliard School: Audra McDonald, actress
New School: Shirin Ebadi, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Price recipient
School of Visual Arts: Nicholas Kristof, NY Times columnist
Pace University: Eugene M. Lang, philanthropist; City Comptroller William Thompson; Jean Fagan Yellin, professor
Pratt Institute: Vito Acconci, architect and installation artist
Cooper Union: E. Stanley O'Neal, Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch

And we know the Columbia College has Matthew Fox speaking for its Class Day; as for the university-wide event, there's no one speaker, but Columbia is giving honorary degrees to a number of people, including financier Felix Rohatyn and architect Santiago Calatrava.

Photograph of NYU's Graduation Alley by New York Daily Photo

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By Jen Chung in News on May 10, 2007 5:53 PM

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sheluv

Sarah Lawrence College (up in Yonkers)

Alice Greenwald-Director of the WTC Memorial and Museum

nick

people at columbia should stop complaining about matthew fox... at least they get someone a little more attention-grabbing than "Provost and VP Of Academic Affairs."

ughhhh

Jen Chung

Thanks for all your suggestions - keep 'em coming.

BigJ

how could you forget Cooper union!!?!

cooper union

What about cooper union? Who's speaking there?

andrew

College of Staten island definitely has the best speaker out of these :-)

man

You omitted that the speaker for the New School, Shirin Ebabdi, is, besides a "human rights activist", a Nobel Peace Price recipient. You don't have one of those everyday at your commencement.

fu

Hey, don't forget the Columbia SEAS (engineering) class day! Santiago Calatrava Valls is the speaker.

would you like fries with that

Good luck in the workforce, graduates! Don't forget to ask if people want their value meals supersized.

Vidiot

St. John's is having George Stephanopolous speak at their Queens campus, and VA Sec'y Jim Nicholson speak at their Staten Island campus.

(and what's the deal with SVA having a print guy speak?)

c

Pratt could use a little recognition...

c

Pratt could use a little recognition...

Charles Grlock

Bard may be a great school but it's not "just upstate", it's over 2 hours away in northern Dutchess. If all the schools within a 2 hour radius of NYC were added to this list it would be kind of silly.

Charles Grlock

CUNY Law isn't on your list...

columbia sux

As a graduating Columbia student, I'm very disappointed with our speakers. Wish we could've gotten Bloomberg instead. You'd think our schools would have connections to better speakers for such an important event.

pants

Bard College just upstate has Mike Bloomberg...don't forget about us.

kook

If I wasn't a gay man or a woman then I'd feel so gypped that the guy from party of five was the speaker at my commencement. Honestly, the only cool speaker is Tim Russert and he's speaking with the jews.

Jen Chung

#2, thanks for pointing that out. And congratulations, Emily!

Emily

i think it's worth noting that Marsalis didn't speak - he played! it was quite magical, but i'm probably biased (i'm a proud member of the class of 2007, SCPS grad :-)). the webcast is on the nyu website, i believe.