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Over 150 bright futures were taking shape on Thursday at Daley Plaza. Family, friends, faculty and staff all celebrated the news that 100% of the Class of 2022 from Urban Prep Academy campuses in Englewood, Bronzeville and Near West Side have been accepted into college. “It’s just a blessing to be here today, you know, I get my hat –…

Despite all the challenges they’ve faced, most older millennials are content with how their lives turned out. Here’s their best advice to the next generation.

Recent Massachusetts high school graduate Verda Tetteh is off to Harvard University this fall – and helping some of her fellow classmates along the way. We spoke to Tetteh about why she declined a $40,000 scholarship and asked it be given to other kids headed to community colleges.

Older millennials across the country share what they’d do differently in their career.

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on graduation day.

At her graduation from a Massachusetts high school, a Harvard-bound senior asked that her school give tens of thousands of dollars it had awarded her for a college scholarship to someone attending a community college instead.

A North Carolina high school student was originally denied his diploma after he wore a Mexican flag as a cape to his graduation ceremony. School officials said he violated the dress code.

Lindiwe Tsope has become the first graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to be awarded a PhD.

Stacey Abrams tells 2021 graduates at Teachers College, Columbia University that “what you want can be made real” if you don’t give up.

John Legend delivered Duke University’s undergraduate commencement address on Sunday, May 2.

A group of Columbia College students is leading the “Commence Anyways” campaign to host a citywide graduation ceremony in Chicago. One of the organizers shares details about the plan.

Two years ago, 15-year old Emma Earhart and her mom, 39-year-old Kathy Earhart began their journey at the University of North Texas at Denton, and on May 1 they’ll end it just as they started: together.

Almost a year after college graduation, 45% of the class of 2020 are still looking for work, according to a survey from career website Monster.

For the second year in a row, Columbia College Chicago will be holding a virtual Commencement ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic, and a group of graduating seniors from the private school is challenging that decision, saying a virtual ceremony is not an option for them. “I can’t even imagine sitting at home looking at faces in a computer,...

Many graduates will realize their dream of walking across the stage and getting their diploma this spring. For others, the coronavirus pandemic is still throwing a wrench into those plans. At Columbia College Chicago, some students are trying to make it happen on their own. NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

Psychotherapist Tess Brigham recommends these great reads to all of her college graduate-age patients, and says life “would have been a lot easier” if she read them in her 20s.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a rough year for everyone. To ease your stress, soak in some timeless advice from billionaire investor Mark Cuban.

President Barack Obama says failed police practices, inequality and decades worth of anguish have fueled the nationwide protests following the recent deaths of unarmed black women and men, including George Floyd

Latino graduates from across the country were honored on Friday in a virtual celebration put on by Excelencia in Education, a national organization that works with institutions of higher education to improve Latino college enrollment and completion. “Forty percent of Latinos that go to college are the first in their families to go,” Excelencia co-founder and CEO Deborah Santiago said. “This...