U.S. Secretary of Education to Speak at Commencement
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will speak at UW–Madison’s Saturday morning commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center on May 15. Duncan came to President Obama’s administration in January 2009 after spending seven years as chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools, where he became the longest-serving big-city education superintendent in the nation.
James Kass, the founder of Youth Speaks, will speak to graduates at afternoon ceremonies on Saturday, May 15, and two ceremonies on Sunday, May 16. Kass, a 1991 UW–Madison graduate, is executive director of the San Francisco-based nonprofit group Youth Speaks, which set a national standard for creative writing, poetry and spoken-word programs for youth. For more details about commencement, visit the Secretary of the Faculty Web site.