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Universities from around the country are announcing their commencement speakers for the spring 2012 graduation ceremony. Here are the most promising ones:

04/28/12	Dr. Sanjay Gupta	CNN correspondent	Univ. of Michigan
05/05/12	Val Kilmer	Actor	William Woods Univ.
05/05/12	Carol Bartz	Autodesk's former CEO	Univ. of Wisconsin Madison
05/05/12	Donna Brazile	Political strategist	St. Augustine College
05/06/12	Martin Sheen	Actor	New England I.of Tech.
05/12/12	Cookie Roberts	News Analyst	Univ. of Illinois
05/12/12	Brian Schmidt	Nobel prize winner	Tucson Arizona
05/12/12	Jon Meacham	Author	Loyola University
05/12/12	William Clay Ford Jr.	Ford's CEO	Bradley University
05/12/12	Philip Rivers	San Diego quarterback	NC State University
05/12/12	Kay Krill	Ann Taylor's CEO	Agness Scott College
05/12/12	Zainab Salbi	Humanitarian	Scripps College
05/12/12	JoAnn Falletta	Acclaimed conductor	Hilbert College
05/13/12	Fareed Zakaria	Journalist	Duke University
05/13/12	Aaron Sorkin	Screenwriter	Syracuse University
05/13/12	Jim Lehrer	Broadcast news icon	College of William and Marry
05/14/12	Don Sagolla	Twitter co-creator	Becker College
05/17/12	Neil Gaiman	Sci-fi/fantasy author	The Univ. of the Arts in Philadelphia
05/18/12	Ira Glass	Radio host	Goucher College
05/18/12	Mike Peters	Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist	Washington Univ
05/18/12	Adam Savage	Co-host of the show MythBusters	Sarah Lawrence College
05/19/12	Larry Lucchino	Boston Red Sox CEO	Bentley University
05/20/12	Anna Quindlen	Journalist and author	Bucknell University
05/20/12	Oprah Winfrey	Media icon	Spelman College
05/20/12	Viola Davis	Screenwriter	Providence College
05/20/12	Haley Scott DeMaria	Former swimmer	Notre Dame University
05/20/12	Jane Lynch	Actress	Smith College
05/20/12	Judith Sheidlin	TV "Judge Judy"	Albany State Univ. of NY
05/20/12	Katie Couric	TV personality	U.of Virginia
05/21/12	Jamaica Kincaid	Novelist	Grinnell College
05/22/12	Walter Isaacson	Acclaimed biographer	Cooper Union
05/25/12	Athol Fugard	Playwright	The Juilliard School
05/27/12	Robert DeNiro	Actor	Bates College
06/03/12	Michael Lewis	Non fiction author	Princeton University
06/04/12	Steve Carell	Actor	Princeton University
06/08/12	Salman Khan	Khan Academy founder	MIT
06/09/12	Nancy Cartwright	Voice behind Bart Simpson	Ohio University
06/16/12	Steve Wozniak	co-founder Apple Computer	Santa Clara University