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Despite all the challenges they’ve faced, most older millennials are content with how their lives turned out. Here’s their best advice to the next generation.

Recent Massachusetts high school graduate Verda Tetteh is off to Harvard University this fall – and helping some of her fellow classmates along the way. We spoke to Tetteh about why she declined a $40,000 scholarship and asked it be given to other kids headed to community colleges.

Older millennials across the country share what they’d do differently in their career.

The family of a teenager who died by suicide is asking his school in New Jersey to be honored at graduation with an empty chair. NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield reports on the growing controversy.

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on graduation day.

At her graduation from a Massachusetts high school, a Harvard-bound senior asked that her school give tens of thousands of dollars it had awarded her for a college scholarship to someone attending a community college instead.

A North Carolina high school student was originally denied his diploma after he wore a Mexican flag as a cape to his graduation ceremony. School officials said he violated the dress code.

Lindiwe Tsope has become the first graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to be awarded a PhD.

Stacey Abrams tells 2021 graduates at Teachers College, Columbia University that “what you want can be made real” if you don’t give up.

John Legend delivered Duke University’s undergraduate commencement address on Sunday, May 2.

Two years ago, 15-year old Emma Earhart and her mom, 39-year-old Kathy Earhart began their journey at the University of North Texas at Denton, and on May 1 they’ll end it just as they started: together.

Almost a year after college graduation, 45% of the class of 2020 are still looking for work, according to a survey from career website Monster.

New York University announced that it will be holding a virtual commencement for the Class of 2021 — citing the university’s inability to hold a mass gathering amid the ongoing pandemic. “Unfortunately and with much regret, I am letting you know that it has become clear to us that we will not be able to come together in person for…

Psychotherapist Tess Brigham recommends these great reads to all of her college graduate-age patients, and says life “would have been a lot easier” if she read them in her 20s.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a rough year for everyone. To ease your stress, soak in some timeless advice from billionaire investor Mark Cuban.

A New Jersey high school canceled its in-person graduation ceremony just two days before it was set to be held after a senior student tested positive for COVID-19, officials say. They’re concerned the student may have infected others. In a statement posted to its website Tuesday, the Red Bank Regional High School District said it learned early this week...

Twenty-somethings are at the center of a coronavirus clusuter in one suburban New Jersey town. Sarah Wallace reports on what’s driving the surge.

Montclair High School’s in-person graduation ceremony scheduled for Thursday has been postponed due to possible COVID-19 exposure at graduation parties leading up to the big day. In a letter to families, students and staff, the Superintendent of Montclair Schools, Jonathan Ponds, says in part: “Out of an abundance of caution, it is with enormous regret that I must announce...

It will be a day of pomp and circumstance around New York City. On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza announced a citywide graduation celebration will be held on June 30.  The COVID-19 crisis disrupted the traditional celebrations honoring the accomplishments of the Class of 2020 throughout the country, including in New York City. This…