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Commencement 2014: ‘One thing you absolutely must do’
Sunday, May 25, 2014 4:00 pm
If you were born in the U.S. before 1965, author Isabel Wilkerson told the Class of 2014 at Commencement, you were not born into a democracy.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson is Commencement 2014 speaker, joining honorands John Seely Brown, Glenn Close and David Shaw
Monday, April 21, 2014 1:00 am
Bates will confer honorary degrees on leaders from the arts, business, journalism and technology during Commencement ceremonies May 25.