Knox in the News

From: CBS News (CBS This Morning)

The 2013 commencement season is under way and new graduates have been treated to words of wisdom from notable speakers including President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Colbert, Annie Lennox, Steve Case, Wynton Marsalis, and Graham Nash.

[First cut in the video segment on CBS This Morning is Ed Helms at Knox College… “I’m here to tell you that fear is good… fear that you won’t land a job…] That was actor and comedian Ed Helms at Knox College…” Read more…

From: Associated Press - National (New York, NY)

Five months into President Barack Obama’s second term… former White House insiders, including longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod, say Obama needs to make his case anew for government’s role in expanding education and innovation and to give, as Obama put it in one of his early seminal speeches, “every American a fighting chance in the 21st century.”

As these Democrats see it, there has been an arc of Obama addresses that have spelled out the challenge and the hope of attaining the American Dream, from a 2005 commencement address at tiny Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., to his speech in Osawatomie, Kan., in late 2011, and that the time for another one is now… Read more…

From: US News & World Report - Washington Whispers (Washington, DC)

Some of [this year’s commencement speakers] have left us scratching our heads. Five of the odder pairings of commencement speakers and universities: 1. Ed Helms, Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., June 6. We’re not sure what advice the comedic actor from “The Hangover” will have for this tiny liberal arts college, except maybe this rant, which comes from an episode of “The Office” as his character Andy Bernard: “When I was in college I used to get wicked hammered. My nickname was Puke…” Read more…

From: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live (Los Angeles, CA)

On ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ed Helms tells Jimmy Kimmel: “I’m giving the commencement speech at Knox College in Illinois… My (honorary degree) will be an actual medical degree, so I’m going to be doing some recreational thoracic surgery…” Read more…

From: Huffington Post

As much as we’re looking forward to hearing what current and former presidents, major CEOs and acclaimed journalists have to say this graduation season, let’s be honest: The celebrity commencement speeches are the ones everyone will be talking about…

So the question is simply, which of the folks below is going to come out with the line that gets everybody talking?

Check out the lineup… Stephen Colbert [who spoke at Knox in 2006] will be the keynote speaker at the University of Virginia’s 2013 Valedictory Exercises on May 18… Actor Ed Helms will speak at Knox College on June 8… Read more…

From: WGIL (Galesburg, IL)

At Knox College Monday night, John Agnew , a leading scholar on nationalism and immigration, spoke on global immigration trends. A distinguished professor of geography at UCLA, he spoke about building a framework to think about the current debate on immigration policy, and that three percent of the global population is living outside their country of birth… Read more…