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Tuskegee is honored to welcome retired Major General Mark Anthony Brown 86 as its keynote speaker for the 104th Founders Day Convocation. This years virtual celebration will recognize the classes of 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, and 1982.

On Feb. 17 during the annual Founders’ Day Convocation at Wake Forest University, President Susan R. Wente asked what it means to be a founder while challenging the institution’s faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends to become founders.

William Murphy is a renowned expert in biomedicine who studies ways medicine can mimic nature.

The Ledger Florida Southern College will hold commencement ceremonies on May 15. The events are ticketed for students and their guests and will be live-streamed on the college’s Facebook page and YouTube channel and through links on the FSC website. The commencement speaker will be Dr. Mae Jemison, a former NASA astronaut who spoke at FSC’s Founders Day Convocation in 2019. She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at that event. A ceremony for 2020 graduates will be held ...

From staff reports BETHANY — The author of a biography on the founder of Bethany College will be the keynote speaker at the college’s annual Founder’s Day Convocation on March 4. Douglas A. Foster is a scholar in residence at Abilene Christian University, where he was a full-time professor for more than 25 years. His latest book, “A Life of Alexander Campbell,” was published in June and is considered the first critical biography of Campbell. Campbell was a leader in childhood...