READER POLL: Who gave the best commencement speech? Kermit the Frog, Dawn Moore, Wes Moore or JD Vance? This graduation season, the biggest names to deliver commencement addresses to Maryland institutions came from the heights of government and puppeteering.

Abraham Verghese is a Stanford University professor, bestselling author and a prominent doctor who advocates for strengthening the physician-patient connection and bedside skills.

The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.”

The last time President Trump gave a speech at the U.S. Military Academy came amid nationwide reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

"In this tender and pivotal moment, we must stand boldly for the freedoms and principles that define this and other great universities," Eisgruber told the graduating class.

Traditionally giving speakers and students opportunities for unscripted moments, graduation events this week unfold as the university tries to thread a needle with the White House between resistance and accommodation.

President Donald Trump told graduating cadets to avoid "trophy wives" during a May 24 commencement speech at West Point.

During his commencement address at Fresno City College today, Senator Adam Schiff delivered inspiring remarks. Schiff stated, "Changing things takes courage."