Op-Ed

Silencing the Moment: Why NYU’s Pre-Recorded Graduation Speeches Betray Both Free Expression and Academic Purpose

  There are few rituals in academic life more emblematic of culmination, aspiration, and collective identity than the commencement ceremony. It is, in its ideal form, a moment when individual achievement merges with communal pride, when the graduating class is given a voice—however briefly—to articulate its shared experience and its hopes for the future. Yet […]