Graduation speakers

More graduation speakers:

California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks holds its commencement ceremony May 17. Undergraduates will hear from U.S. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara).

And talk show host, political commentator and author Tavis Smiley will be the keynote speaker at the Cal State Dominguez Hills undergraduate commencement ceremony May 23.

-- Mary MacVean

Photo courtesy of Cal State Dominguez Hills

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[CSULA Public Affairs]

CSULA Graduation Speakers:

Culminating its 60th anniversary year, California State University, Los Angeles will conduct a two-day Commencement ceremony Friday, June 6, and Saturday, June 7, in the University Athletic Stadium.

The Friday speaker will be Wanda M. Austin, president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation.

The Saturday speaker will be Michael S. Harper, first poet laureate of Rhode Island and professor of English at Brown University. Harper, a Cal State L.A. alumnus, received the 2008 Frost Medal (named for American icon of 20th century poetry Robert Frost) from the Poetry Society of America.