The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2012:

• Albright College: Bob Spitz, the musician and author.
• Atlanta Metropolitan College: U.S. Representative John Lewis.
• Bard College: Cory A. Booker, mayor of Newark.
• Baruch College of the City University of New York: Christine C. Quinn, New York City Council speaker; and Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State comptroller.
• Cheyney University: Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
• Chicago Theological Seminary: Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch and a prominent campaigner for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church.
• Gannon University: Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie.
• Hope College: Heather Sellers, professor of English at Hope.
• Mott Community College: William S. (Bill) Ballenger III, a political writer, publisher and television/radio commentator.
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Dean Kamen, the inventor and entrepreneur.
• Towson University: Bill Owens, executive editor of "60 Minutes."
• University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General.
• Wheaton College, in Illinois: The Reverend Canon Andrew White, chaplain of St George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad.