Commencement Speakers Announced: Allegheny, Becker, Berkshire CC, Chatham, Cogswell Polytechnic, Eckerd, Johnson C. Smith, Lebanon Valley, Longwood, New College Florida, U. of La Verne, U. of Maine Farmington, U. of Southern California, Vassar

The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2014:

• Allegheny College: Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of "PBS NewsHour."
• Becker College: Len Gengel, an entrepreneur and philanthropy leader.
• Berkshire Community College: U.S. Representative Richard Neal of Massachusetts.
• Chatham University: Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation.
• Cogswell Polytechnic College: Richard Founder and CEO at Cloudpic.
• Eckerd College: Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC host.
• Johnson C. Smith University: Robert Niblock, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
• Lebanon Valley College: Anderson Marsh, associate professor of chemistry.
• Longwood College: U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.
• New College of Florida: Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
• University of La Verne: Jose Hernandez, an astronaut.
• University of Maine at Farmington: Richard Ford, the novelist.
• University of Southern California: Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
• Vassar College: Sau Lan Wu, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.