DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A speaker at Millikin University's winter graduation has many students, faculty and alumni outraged after making transphobic comments during the ceremony. Reverend Wally Carlson ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The new Southern Illinois University chancellor's decision to add a brief prayer during fall graduation ceremonies prompted about two dozen calls of protest, and he plans to form a ...

University of Maryland President C.D. Mote Jr., in a rare rebuff of the school's senate, announced yesterday that commencement ceremonies would continue to include an invocation. "For many people, a ...

The valedictorian of a high school in a San Antonio suburb where a judge has banned formal prayers at graduation ceremonies on Saturday is fighting for an opportunity to lead the crowd in prayer. On ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An Irmo High School graduate has sued to stop prayers at future graduation ceremonies. Eighteen-year-old Matthew Nielson sued to block prayer, saying the invocation offered at ...

Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review a Florida school district’s policy allowing student ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Approximately 170 graduate and 640 undergraduate students will attend the commencement ceremony at the Whitworth Pine Bowl in May. Whitworth University will host two commencement ...

PEORIA, Ill., May 17 -- A federal judge has barred student-led prayer at a suburban high school graduation Sunday, marking the first time in the school's 80-year history that a prayer will not be ...