Commencement Speakers Announced: Alabama State, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Drew, Howard, Lafayette, Rocky Vista, Roosevelt, Saint Leo, Shenandoah, Springfield, Texas Tech, U of Dallas

The following colleges have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2016:

• Alabama State University: Steve Harvey, the entertainer.
• Carnegie Mellon University: Earl Lewis, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Dartmouth College: Leymah Gbowee, the Nobel Peace Laureate and human rights activist.
• Drew University: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball player and activist.
• Howard University: President Barack Obama.
• Lafayette College: William D. Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Rocky Vista University: Boyd Buser, vice president for health affairs and dean at the University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Roosevelt University: Pat Harris, global chief diversity officer and vice president of global community engagement at McDonald’s Corporation.
• Saint Leo University: Bob Buckhorn, mayor of Tampa, Fla.
• Shenandoah University: James Davis, president emeritus of the university, and Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, founder of the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project.
• Springfield College: Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics; and Mark Keroack, president and chief executive officer for Baystate Health, Baystate Medical Center, and chair of the Board of Directors for Health New England.
• Texas Tech University: W. Mark Lanier, the lawyer.
• University of Dallas: John L. Allen Jr., editor of the independent Roman Catholic news site Crux and senior Vatican analyst for CNN.