by Brendan McDonald
According to the website’s analysis: Democrats will again outnumber Republicans as commencement speakers this spring College amendment.
Correction I found similar results last yearafter reviewing public statements, newspaper articles and political donations to determine party affiliation. Correction reviewed graduation keynote speakers from the Southeastern Conference, Ivy League and Big Ten.
Among the 36 universities examined by Correction. In contrast, Correction identified 11 keynote speakers who are Democrats. Some universities have not yet announced their keynote speakers, do not have them, or choose students. The analysis only included university-wide ceremonies or bachelor’s ceremonies, not those organized at individual universities or postgraduate studies.
Auburn University will hear from two graduation speakers, Kirsty Coventry (pictured above) and Phillip McWane.
McWane, a business leader, has donated to Republican Party candidates in the past.
Three of the four GOP speakers are from the SEC and one is from a Big Ten university.
Scott Dorsey, a speaker at Indiana University in Bloomington, is a venture capitalist who has donated to Sen. Todd Young’s campaign, according to the Federal Election Commission data.
Mississippi State University students will hear a speech by school President Mark Keenum (in the photo, right), a Republican and appointed under President Donald Trump.
Doug McMillon will be Walmart’s CEO keynote for the University of Arkansas. McMillon was critical President Donald Trump in the past; however, his donation history shows that often maintained Republican candidates. When asked in August 2020 if he supported Trump, McMillon said:I am a retailer“
New York Times columnist David Brooks will deliver the commencement address at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Although it was once thought to be New York Times’ in a conservative voice, he stated that he was not a Republican From President Donald Trump’s rise to power in the GOP, if not sooner.
Democratic mayor of St. Paul Melvin Carter III (in the photo, left) will deliver the commencement address at the University of Minnesota. Law & Order star Sam Waterston will deliver the commencement speech at Princeton University. Waterston gave money to Barack Obama in 2012 and campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2020.
Other Democratic-leaning speakers included actress Kathryn Hahn of Northwestern University, who provided public support miscarriage and LGBT programand Dr. Vivek Murthy, who serves as President Joe Biden’s surgeon general.
He will deliver a speech on Occupation Day at Yale University. Murthy delivered the 2023 commencement address at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
Architect and Democratic donor Jeanne Gang will speak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Democratic Governor Wes Moore will speak at the University of Maryland.
College amendment contacted universities that were not on the public list to see if commencement speakers would be held on Wednesday, April 17 and again on Monday, April 22.
Purdue University and Columbia University reported Correction by e-mail that the principal of each school will provide the address.
Rutgers University will also ask its president for an address. Brown University said graduates will speak, a tradition at the school.
The University of Missouri said it is not hosting a central event to recognize graduates.
Start-up speakers often have left-wing political leanings. In 2022 Washington The examiner found only three of the top 100 universities in the country hosted “tall conservative speaker.”
Small colleges will host conservative speakers
Conservatives will speak at smaller universities.
Riley Gaines, a critic of men competing in women’s sports, spoke up Adrian’s school in Michigan. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a conservative Catholic prelate, will speak on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College in Massachusetts.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will speak at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Harrison Butker, a devout Catholic and NFL Super Bowl kicking champion, will speak at Benedictine College in Kansas.
Last year Butker’s speech At his alma mater, Georgia Tech, he drew attention to its pro-family orientation. parish message.
The Super Bowl winner said: “None of these achievements mean anything compared to the happiness I have found in marriage and raising a family.”
“I have confidence in God and with a wife by my side I can do more than I could ever imagine on my own.”
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Brendan McDonald – Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.
“Starting Address” photo by Auburn University.
