2004 commencement speakers

Black Issues in Higher Education, May 6, 2004

* ASHLAND UNIVERSITY (OHIO)

ROBERT C. SPRINGER Colonel, United States Marine Corps, retired NASA astronaut director

* BENNETT COLLEGE (N.C.)

GWENDOLYN E. BOYD National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

* BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY (PA.)

RALPH NADER Consumer advocate, lawyer, author and presidential candidate

* CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-FULLERTON

SUSAN ELIZABETH GEORGE Educator, novelist and founder of the Elizabeth George Foundation

* CAMERON UNIVERSITY (OKLA.)

LINDA WERTHEIMER Senior National Public Radio correspondent and former host of "All Things Considered."

* CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (OHIO)

ELIE WIESEL Holocaust survivor, author, teacher and storyteller; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom and the United States Congressional Gold Medal

* CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY (CALIF.)

JOHN SEELY BROWN Vice president and chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

* CLARK UNIVERSITY (MASS.)

THE HONORABLE MARGARET MARSHALL Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

* COLGATE UNIVERSITY (N.Y.)

STEVE BURKE President of Comcast Cable and a Colgate University alumnus

* DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.)

MADELEINE ALBRiGHT Former U.S. Secretary of State

* EMORY UNIVERSITY (GA.)

MARY ROBINSON Advocate of universal respect for fundamental rights and freedoms; Ireland's first woman president; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Harvard Law fellow; Winston Churchill Medalist

* OXFORD COLLEGE OF EMORY UNIVERSITY

DR. BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM President, Spelman College

* GRINNELL COLLEGE (IOWA)

DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ Executive director of Amnesty International USA

* HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE (VA.)

DR. J. ALFRED BROADDUS JR. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

* HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MASS.)

KOFI ANNAN Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner

* ITHACA COLLEGE (N.Y.)

SCOTT HAMILTON Olympic figure skater and cancer survivor

* LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE (ORE.)

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health

* LIBERTY UNIVERSITY (VA.)

KARL ROVE Senior adviser to the president of the United States

* MOREHOUSE COLLEGE (GA.)

Dr. William (Bill) Cosby Educator, entertainer and philanthropist

* NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE (N.H.)

CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN Former democratic presidential contender; first and only African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate; former legislator in the Illinois House of Representatives

* NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL

ALEXIS HERMAN Chair and CEO of New Ventures, Inc. and former U.S. Secretary of Labor

* NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY

JAMES EARL JONES Award-winning actor

* NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (ILL.)

TOM BROKAW Award-winning television news anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News"

* OHIO UNIVERSITY (graduate exercises)

MORGAN L. VIS Associate professor of environmental and plant biology

* OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

JOHN H. GLENN Former senator and astronaut

* PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (GREAT VALLEY)

JUAN JOHNSON Vice President, the Coca Cola Company

* RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (N.Y.)

DR. ROBERT METCALFE Internet pioneer, invented Ethernet networking

* ROANOKE COLLEGE (VA.)

SEAN BURCH Extreme fitness instructor and mountaineer, conquered Mount Everest without using oxygen

* ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (N.Y.)

ANNE M. MULCAHY Chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation

* SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE (N.Y.)

GRACE PALEY Fiction writer

* SMITH COLLEGE (MASS.)

JUDY WOODRUFF CNN anchor and senior correspondent

* SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (TEXAS)

ERNESTO NIETO Founder of the National Hispanic Institute

* SPELMAN COLLEGE (GA.)

DR. BENJAMIN CARSON Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

* STANFORD UNIVERSITY (CALIF.)

SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR U.S. Supreme Court Justice

* SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY AND SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY (N.Y.) (joint exercises)

PHYLICIA RASHAD Actress and philanthropist

* TULANE UNIVERSITY (LA.)

SENATOR JOHN BREAUX Louisiana lawmaker

* UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY COLLEGE OF NATURAl RESOURCES

PAUL HAWKEN Environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and best-selling author

* UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLO.) (Graduate Ceremony)

NJABULO S. NDEBELE Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town in South Africa (Undergraduate Ceremony)

RICHARD C. NOTEBAERT Chairman and CEO for Qwest Communications International Inc.

* UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

LANI GUINIER Civil rights attorney, author and Harvard Law School professor

* UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE (undergraduate)

URSULA M. BURNS Corporate senior vice president and president, Business Group Operations Xerox Corporation (graduate)

DR. WILLIAM A. HASELTINE Chairman and chief executive officer Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

* UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, GERALD R. FORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY

CATHERINE BERTINI Undersecretary General for Management at the United Nations

* UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER

BILL RICHARDSON Governor of New Mexico, former ambassador to the United Nations and Secretary of Energy