Commencement speeches this spring overwhelmingly lacked conservative voices, as only one of the United States’ top 100 universities invited a Republican guest speaker to address the class of 2020 at their graduation ceremonies, according to a recent report by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF).
All of the top 100 universities in America—as ranked by U.S. News & World Report—chose to cancel traditional, in-person commencement exercises in the wake of the pandemic, the YAF report noted. The schools that managed to invite guest speakers to deliver their commencement addresses remotely, however, almost exclusively favored those from the political left.
