"This is when we get panicky about doing something for graduation that's not a spaceship," Mr. Doyle said.
In previous years as many as 65% of graduates would stay in the Atlanta area after graduation; that number has fallen to 50%.
"After 40 Years, a Graduating Class Gets Its Turn in the Spotlight" (news article, May 17), about Boston University, brought to mind the Cornell graduation that same year, 1970.
A series of commercials shown on Friday in Des Moines vaguely promoted positive thinking with a medley of pleasant images — yoga at sunset, sailboats, grandchildren, birthday cakes, college graduation — that could just as easily promote an insurance company or Paxil.
Starting with prenatal care for mothers, the campaign's recommendation counts on 18 years of services — through high school graduation — that include extensive early child care and after-school and summer programs.
But it wasn't the crystalline waters of the Caribbean, or the fact that she attends one of a handful of U.S. colleges where undergraduate research is a requirement for graduation, that sold her on the discipline.
That is the graduation that is not a foregone conclusion.
Since the investigation had put a hold on his graduation, that meant he should not receive his diploma until May 2018.
Spring graduation that year happened to fall on Super Bowl Sunday, but my focus was neither on the game, nor on my completion of college.
At the same time Zimmer recognizes that with a starting salary after graduation that will likely be lower than her male peers, she has a bigger financial risk.
