The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2013:

• Claremont Graduate University: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• College of William & Mary: Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Colorado College: Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund.
• Lafayette College: Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor of international affairs at Princeton University.
• LIM College: Mark Mendelson, president/CEO of Ellen Tracy.
• Middlebury College: Jonathan Safran Foer, the author.
• Norwich University: Rick Atkinson, the military historian.
• Sage Colleges: Hamdi Ulukaya, president, founder and CEO of Chobani, Inc., which produces Chobani Greek Yogurt.
• Salve Regina University: Master stone carvers Nicholas W. Benson and  John E. Benson.
• Vassar College: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat.
• Western Connecticut State University:  Patricia Llodra, first selectman in Newtown, Conn.; and Janet Robinson, Newtown superintendent of schools.
• William Peace University: Erskine Bowles, former president of the University of North Carolina System and former chief of staff to President Clinton.