2019 Commencement Ceremony Speakers: Tarana Burke, Kevin Kwan, Robert Mundheim, and Ta Kasitipradit

Clockwise: Tarana Burke, Kevin Kwan, Ta Kasitipradit, and Robert Mundheim. Photos courtesy of The New School

Graduates, their guests, and anyone attending this year’s graduation ceremony will be privy to speeches from some of the biggest cultural change-makers of the moment. At the commencement…

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Kanye West's album "Graduation"

Graduation, the word, originally comes from the Latin noun, “gradus,” a step. But today’s convention comes from the early 15th-century English use in alchemy — the practice of…