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

• Bradley University: William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company.
• Columbia College [1] (South Carolina): President Bill Clinton.
• LIM College: [2] Michael Gould, CEO of Bloomingdale’s.
• Michigan Technological University: Martha N. Sullivan, president and CEO of Sensata Technologies. 
• Norwich University: General Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Otterbein University: [3] Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research.
• Saint Joseph College, in Connecticut: [4] Governor Dannel P. Malloy, a Connecticut Democrat.
• Salem State University: [5] Molly Baldwin, founder and executive director of Roca Inc., a community organization focused on high-risk youth; and Robert DeLeo, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Smith College: [6] Jane Lynch, the actress.
• University of California at Los Angeles: [7] Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva, a peer-to-peer micro-lending website.
• Virginia Tech: [8] U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat.
• Whitman College: [9] Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation.