HAYS — Fort Hays State University recognized approximately 1,691 graduates during its Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, at Gross Memorial Coliseum in Hays. Area graduates included the following: Humboldt Elysia Kunkler,…

View additional photos of Allen’s graduation ceremony by clicking here. Getting a higher education can be an endurance test, admitted Dianne Kauth, including “how many late-night study sessions you can endure.”  But the journey builds…

School is a lot like golf, Iola High School’s Class of 2024 student body president Chris Holloway told his fellow graduates during commencement activities Saturday. You have to have great grounds and pick the course…

(AP) — A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “free…

Allen Community College gave Tomas Hoppough something just as valuable as an education: An opportunity. “As a young adult, not many places or people took chances on me. Allen did,” Hoppough told the 2024 graduates…

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but said students will still be able…

MORAN — Mallory Heim implored her fellow Marmaton Valley High School graduates to look forward, not backward, now that their high school careers are complete. Heim, valedictorian for Marmaton Valley’s Class of 2023, quoted the…

For many members of the Iola High School Class of 2023, Saturday’s commencement was their first “graduation” since kindergarten. They didn’t have a ceremony to commemorate moving on from elementary school, class speaker Macie Hoag…

View and purchase additional photos here. COLONY — The Crest High School Class of 2023 was known as “that class,” as senior Trevor Church explained in his graduation speech during Saturday morning’s commencement activities. “I…

View and purchase additional photos here. HUMBOLDT — The Class of 2023 created its own luck by taking advantage of the opportunities that came their way. Humboldt High School’s class speakers Maddox Johnson and Morgan…