Friday is graduation night at Biddeford High School, but some students may look a little different on stage. This year, the school is limiting the use of cords to represent student club participation, ...

She had to travel thousands of miles from home, adapt to a new culture, and face the COVID pandemic. She celebrated her second RIT degree with her peers on Saturday, May 4, during the fifth annual ...

Others at Diversity Graduation wore honorary cords to represent their backgrounds, including those of Asian American and Pacific Islander (gold and red), Black (green, red and black), and Middle ...

Black students across many universities impacted by anti-DEI orders are finding new ways to keep their graduation traditions alive.

She added, "So having Black graduation is kind of a celebration of the history and of everything that the Black community in Austin, especially UT Austin, has gone through.

But over those 15 years, the six-year graduation rate gap between Black and white students who entered as freshmen has actually widened slightly. It was 21.9% in 2006; in 2021, it was 22.2%.

Black students and other affinity groups are finding new ways to celebrate their graduations as the Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives limits their on-campus engagement. For ...

In 2023, there was a setback: The six-year graduation rate for Black students at Wayne State fell eight percentage points — 20 percent — in a single year. Colleges have long struggled to ...

During its 2024 commencement, Harvard reportedly hosted 10 affinity celebrations for Arab, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, first-generation, low-income, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi ...

The University of Kentucky confirmed last week that it canceled graduation events honoring minority students, including Black, LGBTQ+ and first-generation seniors. Now, others have launched ...

Gallaudet holds graduation for 24 Black deaf students and teachers who were denied diplomas 00:25. A historic university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Washington, D.C. held a graduation ...