Graduation

UC Berkeley graduate Robert Paylor walked across the stage to get his diploma Sunday, just four years after being paralyzed while playing rugby.

Despite all the challenges they’ve faced, most older millennials are content with how their lives turned out. Here’s their best advice to the next generation.

An 18-year-old South Torrance High student had to be hospitalized shortly before his graduation. When it became clear he would not be discharged in time, his nurses arranged a ceremony for him inside Little Company of Mary.

Recent Massachusetts high school graduate Verda Tetteh is off to Harvard University this fall – and helping some of her fellow classmates along the way. We spoke to Tetteh about why she declined a $40,000 scholarship and asked it be given to other kids headed to community colleges.

Older millennials across the country share what they’d do differently in their career.

After a rough year due to the coronavirus pandemic, graduating seniors from San Diego Unified School District will get to celebrate their milestone by walking across the stage at Petco Park.

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on graduation day.

Graduation is about to get sweeter for San Diego Unified School District’s Class of 2021 since they will get to celebrate their achievement at Petco Park.

At her graduation from a Massachusetts high school, a Harvard-bound senior asked that her school give tens of thousands of dollars it had awarded her for a college scholarship to someone attending a community college instead.

A North Carolina high school student was originally denied his diploma after he wore a Mexican flag as a cape to his graduation ceremony. School officials said he violated the dress code.

A San Diego County resident and DACA recipient who worked several jobs to pay his way through college achieved part of his dreams Tuesday when he graduated from San Diego State University.

Javier Diego Jacinto is daring others to dream big.

The first of seven SDSU commencement ceremonies began today at Petco Park – a celebration extra special that was once feared threatened by the pandemic. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more on the momentous event.

The moment that hundreds of students have dreamed of is finally here and in just a matter of hours, dozens of San Diego State University students will walk across a stage as graduates.

Serina Abu Arafeh has spent the past 10 years working on becoming a nurse. When she was scheduled to work the day of her college graduation, she was fine with it. Her co-workers were not. Garvin Thomas reports.

It’s one of the defining moments of a young person’s life, but “graduation day” will mean even more to a college student in the Inland Empire who was living and studying out of his truck.

NBC 7’s Joe Little was there when 100 SDUS nursing students turned their tassels at an in-person ceremony on campus.

They sat 10 feet apart in their black graduation gowns. It’s usually a symbol of students who are ready for the real world. However, the 2020 San Diego State nursing graduates carried a lot of experience into the ceremony.

Lindiwe Tsope has become the first graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to be awarded a PhD.