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Maya Rudolph at Tulane University (2015)

John Seely Brown at Arizona State University (2015)

Ari Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw at University of Michigan (2015)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Wellesley College (2015)

Mary Karr at Syracuse University (2015)

Jason Kilar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)

Stephen Colbert at Wake Forest University (2015)

Neil deGrasse Tyson at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2015)

Arianna Huffington at Vassar College (2015)

Ed Helms at University of Virginia (2015)

Bernard Harris at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2015)

Emir Kamenica at University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2014)

Janet Yellen at New York University (2014)

Jill Abramson at Wake Forest University (2014)

Anne-Marie Slaughter at Tufts University (2014)

Atul Gawande at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)

David Remnick at Syracuse University (2014)

David Carr at University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism (2014)

Jennifer Lee at University of New Hampshire (2014)

Janet Napolitano at Northeastern University (2014)

Jim Carrey at Maharishi University of Management (2014)

John Legend at University of Pennsylvania (2014)

Mary Barra at University of Michigan (2014)

Mindy Kaling at Harvard Law School (2014)

Sheryl Sandberg at City Colleges of Chicago (2014)

Victor Hwang at Austin Community College (2014)

Tory Burch at Babson College (2014)

Alexis Ohanian at Carthage College (2014)

Michelle Obama at Dillard University (2014)

John F. Kerry at Yale University (2014)

Neil deGrasse Tyson at Rice University (2013)

Jonathan Safran Foer at Middlebury College (2013)

Ben Bernanke at Princeton University (2013)

Arianna Huffington at Smith College (2013)

Dalai Lama at Tulane University (2013)

Drew Houston at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)

David Brooks at Sewanee - The University of the South (2013)

Howard Gordon at Connecticut College (2013)

George Saunders at Syracuse University (2013)

Ed Helms at Knox College (2013)

Joss Whedon at Wesleyan University (2013)

James Carville at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2013)

Jimmy Iovine at University of Southern California (2013)

Jon Lovett at Pitzer College (2013)

Sharyn Alfonsi at University of Mississippi (2013)

Stephen Colbert at University of Virginia (2013)

Stephen R. Kellert at University of Western Sydney, Australia (2013)

Tim Minchin at University of Western Australia (2013)

Wynton Marsalis at University of Vermont (2013)

Tracy Chevalier at Oberlin College (2013)

Adam Savage at Sarah Lawrence College (2012)

Louis B. Susman at Connecticut College (2012)

Lee Corso at Florida State University (2012)

Aaron Sorkin at Syracuse University (2012)

Benno Schmidt Sr. at University of Missouri (2012)

Atul Gawande at Williams College (2012)

Angela Davis at Pitzer College (2012)

Andy Samberg at Harvard University (2012)

David McCullough Jr. at Wellesley High School (2012)

Hank Aaron at Marquette University (2012)

Ira Glass at Goucher College (2012)

Jefferson Smith at University of Oregon (2012)

Michael Bloomberg at University of North Carolina (2012)

Maria Shriver at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (2012)

Neil Howe at University of Mary Washington (2012)

Neil Gaiman at The University of the Arts (2012)

Michael Lewis at Princeton University (2012)

Ronan Farrow at Dominican University of California (2012)

Sal Khan at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012)

Peter Dinklage at Bennington College (2012)

Wesley Chan at University of California, San Diego (2012)

Sutton Foster at Ball State University (2012)

Soledad O’Brien at University of Delaware (2012)

William Chiu at Halsey Junior High School (2012)

Abigail Washburn at Colorado College (2012)

Colin Powell at Northeastern University (2012)

Eric Greitens at Tufts University (2012)

Jane Lynch at Smith College (2012)

Melissa Harris-Perry at Wellesley College (2012)

Edward O. Wilson at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2011)

Michelle Obama at Spelman College (2011)

Kati Marton at Central European University (2011)

Terry Teachout at Hamilton Holt School (2011)

Whoopi Goldberg at Savannah College of Art and Design (2011)

Amy Poehler at Harvard University (2011)

Ahmed Zewail at Caltech (2011)

Arianna Huffington at Sarah Lawrence College (2011)

Chris Waddell at Middlebury College (2011)

Cynthia Enloe at Connecticut College (2011)

David Brooks at Rice University (2011)

David Cote at University of New Hampshire (2011)

Gary Malkowski at Gallaudet University (2011)

Makoto Fujimura at Belhaven University (2011)

John Legend at Kean University (2011)

Phil Rosenthal at Hofstra University (2011)

Sheryl Sandberg at Barnard College (2011)

Tom Hanks at Yale University (2011)

Steve Blank at Philadelphia University (2011)

Tom Brinck at The Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale (2011)

Steve Ballmer at University of Southern California (2011)

Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth College (2011)

Jim Steen at Kenyon College (2011)

Joe Plumeri at College of William and Mary (2011)

Sergio Marchionne at University of Toledo (2011)

Robert Krulwich at University of California, Berkeley (2011)

Douglas Smith at DeVry University (2010)

Jeff Bezos at Princeton University (2010)

Jamie Hyneman at Villanova University (2010)

Jimmy Tingle at Harvard University (2010)

Sue Monk Kidd at Scripps College (2010)

Anderson Cooper at Tulane University (2010)

Drew Brees at Loyola University (2010)

Glenn Beck at Liberty University (2010)

Jeffrey Sachs at Connecticut College (2010)

Kirk Schneider at San Francisco State University (2010)

Julianna Margulies at Sarah Lawrence College (2010)

Julia Keller at Dominican University (2010)

Rachel Maddow at Smith College (2010)

Michael Oren at Brandeis University (2010)

Porochista Khakpour at Desert Academy (2010)

Sandra Soto at University of Arizona (2010)

Tim Cook at Auburn University (2010)

Susan Rice at Stanford University (2010)

Barack Obama at University of Michigan (2010)

John Jacob Scherer at Roanoke College (2010)

Meryl Streep at Barnard College (2010)

Lynn Sherr at Wellesley College (2010)

Lisa Kudrow at Vassar College (2010)

Tiffany Shlain at University of California, Berkeley (2010)

Wade Davis at Colorado College (2010)

Bill Clinton at Yale University (2010)

Cory Booker at Pitzer College (2010)

Anthony Corvino at Binghamton University (2009)

Chris Gardner at University of California, Berkeley (2009)

Eugene Mirman at Lexington High School (2009)

Fareed Zakaria at Bates College (2009)

Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane University (2009)

Dolly Parton at University of Tennessee (2009)

Gabrielle Giffords at Scripps College (2009)

Jarl Mohn at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (2009)

Jonathon Youshaei at Deerfield High School (2009)

Larry Page at University of Michigan (2009)

Marissa Mayer at Illinois Institute of Technology (2009)

Jerry Yang at University of Hawaii (2009)

Martha Nussbaum at Connecticut College (2009)

Robert Rodriguez at University of Texas, Austin (2009)

Rahm Emanuel at George Washington University (2009)

Paul Hawken at University of Portland (2009)

Robert M. Gates at University of Georgia (2009)

Barack Obama at Arizona State University (2009)

Arnold Schwarzenegger at University of Southern California (2009)

Carl Schramm at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)

Jaclyn Rossi at Niagara University (2008)

Jessica Lange at Sarah Lawrence College (2008)

Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon University (2008)

Chuck Norris at Liberty University (2008)

Billy Collins at Colorado College (2008)

Clayborne Carson at Niagara University (2008)

Larry Lucchino at Boston University (2008)

J.K. Rowling at Harvard University (2008)

Mike Tomlin at Saint Vincent College (2008)

Rev. David O’Connell at Niagara University (2008)

Meredith Vieira at Tufts University (2008)

Angela Ahrendts at Ball State University (2008)

Barbara Kingsolver at Duke University (2008)

John Mackey at Bentley College (2008)

Jennie Cyran at Niagara University (2007)

Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider at Niagara University (2007)

Rev. Joseph L. Levesque at Niagara University (2007)

Brian Kenny at Ohio Northern University (2007)

Frank McCourt at Syracuse University (2007)

John Doerr at Rice University (2007)

David Brooks at Wake Forest University (2007)

Dana Gioia at Stanford University (2007)

Madeleine Albright at Wellesley College (2007)

Katie Couric at Williams College (2007)

Larry Bock at University of California, Berkeley (2007)

Omid Kordestani at San Jose State University (2007)

Oprah Winfrey at Howard University (2007)

Robert Ballard at Connecticut College (2007)

Bill Gates at Harvard University (2007)

Alice Greenwald at Sarah Lawrence College (2007)

Ray Sidney at Edwin O. Smith High School (2007)

Tony Snow at The Catholic University of America (2007)

Michael Ignatieff at Niagara University (2006)

Chris Matthews at Fordham University (2006)

Ken Burns at Georgetown University (2006)

Elie Wiesel at Dartmouth College (2006)

Jodie Foster at University of Pennsylvania (2006)

Margaret Spellings at Montgomery College (2006)

Marian Fontana at Massachusetts School of Law (2006)

Michael Uslan at Indiana University (2006)

Wangari Maathai at Connecticut College (2006)

John McCain at Liberty University (2006)

David L. Calhoun at Virginia Tech (2005)

John Roberts at Niagara University (2005)

George W. Bush at Calvin College (2005)

Kofi Annan at Penn State (2005)

Estelle Parsons at Connecticut College (2005)

David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College (2005)

Doug Marlette at Durham Academy (2005)

Thomas L. Friedman at Williams College (2005)

Steve Jobs at Stanford University (2005)

Earl Bakken at University of Hawaii (2004)

Anita L. DeFrantz at Connecticut College (2004)

Bradley Whitford at University of Wisconsin (2004)

Jon Stewart at College of William and Mary (2004)

Njabulo S. Ndebele at Wesleyan University (2004)

Elias A. Zerhouni at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004)

Ruth Westheimer at Trinity College (2004)

Paul Glaser at Stanford University (2004)

Richard Russo at Colby College (2004)

Toni Morrison at Wellesley College (2004)

Bono at University of Pennsylvania (2004)

Seth MacFarlane at Harvard University (2004)

Anne Lamott at University of California, Berkeley (2003)

Jean Andrews at University of Texas, Austin (2003)

Michael Dell at University of Texas, Austin (2003)

Jerry Zucker at University of Wisconsin (2003)

Yvonne Thornton at Tuskegee University (2003)

Will Ferrell at Harvard University (2003)

Lewis Lapham at St. John’s College (2003)

Wally Lamb at Connecticut College (2003)

Benjamin Carson Jr. at Niagara University (2003)

Fred Rogers at Dartmouth College (2002)

Sumner Redstone at Northwestern University (2002)

Daniel S. Goldin at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)

David Woodle at Penn State (2001)

Wynton Marsalis at Connecticut College (2001)

Stephen King at Vassar College (2001)

Anna Quindlen at Villanova University (2000)

Billie Jean King at University of Massachusetts (2000)

Guy Kawasaki at Babson College (2000)

John Walsh at Wheaton College (2000)

Tim Russert at Niagara University (2000)

Mark S. Lewis at University of Texas, Austin (2000)

Carly Fiorina at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)

Ray Bradbury at Caltech (2000)

Kurt Vonnegut at Agnes Scott College (1999)

Robert Pinsky at Stanford University (1999)

Andrew Young at Connecticut College (1998)

Roger Rosenblatt at Brigham Young University (1998)

Mary Robinson at Harvard University (1998)

Muriel Siebert at Case Western Reserve University (1998)

Charles W. Colson at Geneva College (1998)

Madeleine Albright at Harvard University (1997)

Kermit the Frog at Southampton College (1996)

Brian J. Dyson at Georgia Tech (1996)

Nora Ephron at Wellesley College (1996)

Salman Rushdie at Bard College (1996)

Tom Brokaw at Connecticut College (1996)

Russell Baker at Connecticut College (1995)

Margaret J. Geller at Harvard University (1995)

William Kunstler at State University of New York, Buffalo (1995)

Vaclav Havel at Harvard University (1995)

Sting at Berklee College of Music (1994)

Callie Khouri at Sweet Briar College (1994)

Art Buchwald at University of Southern California (1993)

Billy Joel at Berklee College of Music (1993)

Cornel West at Wesleyan University (1993)

Naomi Wolf at Scripps College (1992)

Madeleine L’Engle at Wellesley College (1991)

Barbara Bush at Wellesley College (1990)

Bill Watterson at Kenyon College (1990)

Leonard A. Lauder at Connecticut College (1989)

Guido Calabresi at Connecticut College (1988)

Joseph Brodsky at University of Michigan (1988)

Gloria Steinem at Tufts University (1987)

Meg Greenfield at Williams College (1987)

Woody Hayes at Ohio State University (1986)

Meredith Monk at Sarah Lawrence College (1985)

Ursula K. Le Guin at Mills College (1983)

Margaret Atwood at University of Toronto (1983)

Meryl Streep at Vassar College (1983)

Susan Sontag at Wellesley College (1983)

Warren Burger at Pace University (1983)

Mother Teresa at Niagara University (1982)

Patricia McGowan Wald at Connecticut College (1981)

Alan Alda at Connecticut College (1980)

William H. Gass at Washington University (1979)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard University (1978)

Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel at Lake Forest College (1977)

Adrienne Rich at Douglass College (1977)

Gerald Ford at Chicago State University (1975)

David Broder at Kalamazoo College (1975)

Richard Feynman at Caltech (1974)

Kurt Vonnegut at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (1974)

Edward W. Brooke at Wellesley College (1969)

Lyndon Baines Johnson at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1964)

John F. Kennedy at American University (1963)

John F. Kennedy at Yale University (1962)

Ronald Reagan at Eureka College (1957)

Dwight Eisenhower at Penn State (1955)

George C. Marshall at Harvard University (1947)

Henry A. Wallace at Connecticut College (1943)

William Allen White at Northwestern University (1936)

Carrie Chapman Catt at Sweet Briar College (1936)

Franklin D. Roosevelt at Oglethorpe University (1932)

Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard University (1838)