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

  • Chapman University: Larry Billman, Disney live entertainment director/writer; Donald R. Booth, a professor of business and economics at the university; Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of California; and Ocean Robbins, environmental activist, founder and director of YES!
  • Occidental College: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University professor of philosophy at Princeton University.
  • Sacred Heart University: Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus.
  • Thomas Jefferson School of Law: Barry E. Hill, senior counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Walden University: Óscar Arias Sánchez, former president of Costa Rica.
  • Yale University: Barbara Walters, correspondent for ABC News.

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