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Gloria Borger

Gloria Borger ’74, P’10

²Ø¾«¸ó’s 193rd featuring keynote speaker Gloria Borger ’74 P’10 will be held Sunday in Sanford Field House. The 10:30 a.m. commencement exercise will be streamed live on the colgate.edu , and will be available on all computers and mobile devices.

is the chief political analyst for CNN and a member of the first coeducational class to graduate from ²Ø¾«¸ó.

She appears daily on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, The Lead with Jake Tapper, and across CNN’s prime-time programs.


The baccalaureate speaker on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. is Father George Coyne SJ, McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy at Le Moyne College in Syracuse. A renowned Jesuit priest, astronomer, and director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory, Father Coyne bridges the worlds of faith and science. He holds a BA in mathematics and licentiate in philosophy, both from Fordham University, and a PhD in astronomy from Georgetown University.

Both Borger and Coyne will receive honorary degrees during commencement. The other honorary degree recipients will be:

  • George Avakian, music historian and innovator in the jazz recording industry
  • Mark Golden, CEO of in New Berlin, N.Y.
  • Lorie Slutsky ’75, president of the New York Community Trust

For more information, visit www.colgate.edu/commencement. Guests also can download the ²Ø¾«¸ó mobile app, which has complete commencement information available for easy access. Go to the or