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See news stories, texts of speeches, videos, and photo galleries from past commencement exercises.
May 20, 2012: Keynote address delivered by Mark Murphy '77, president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, former Colgate football captain and athletics director.
May 15, 2011: Keynote address delivered by Howard Fineman '70, renowned political reporter, editor, author, and commentator.
May 16, 2010: Keynote address by Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago
May 17, 2009: Keynote address by Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone
May 18, 2008: Keynote address by Lesley Stahl, veteran journalist on CBS's 60 Minutes
May 20, 2007: Keynote address by Bob ’83 and Lee McConaughy Woodruff ’82
May 21, 2006: Keynote address by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer