Metro Atlanta graduation ceremonies

This weekend’s commencement ceremonies and speakers for Atlanta’s major colleges, universities and technical schools

Saturday, May 18

Morris Brown College

Speaker: William J. Taggart, president and CEO, Atlanta Life Financial Group

4 p.m. at Big Bethel AME Church, 220 Auburn Avenue

Morehouse School of Medicine

Speaker: Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

9 a.m., Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel

Oglethorpe University

Speakers: Honarary degree recipients John Frederick Agel Sr. and Donald J. Rubin

9 a.m., Academic Quadrangle

Strayer University

Speaker: TBD

10 a.m., Georgia Dome

Sunday, May 19

Morehouse College

Speaker: President Barack Obama

8 a.m., Century Campus

Spelman College

Speaker: Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General

3 p.m., Georgia International Convention Center

Monday

Clark Atlanta University

Speaker: Valerie B. Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama

8 a.m., Panther Stadium