{"id":38468,"date":"2025-06-12T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38468"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:42:54","slug":"the-new-york-times-reviews-commencement-addresses-across-the-nation-including-furmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-new-york-times-reviews-commencement-addresses-across-the-nation-including-furmans\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times reviews commencement addresses across the nation, including Furman&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38470\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38470 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/06\/kristin-Huguet-Quayle-99-at-commencement-400.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with blond hair wears regalia and stands at a podium.\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/06\/kristin-Huguet-Quayle-99-at-commencement-400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/06\/kristin-Huguet-Quayle-99-at-commencement-400-150x108.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/288;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristin Huguet Quayle \u201999 gives the commencement address during the 2025 Commencement Ceremony in Paladin Stadium on Saturday, May 10, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/08\/us\/graduation-speeches-2025.html\">The New York Times<\/a> published clips from several commencement addresses across the country, including a speech by Furman University alumna and Apple executive Kristin Huguet Quayle &#8217;99, a political science and communications studies graduate. Striking an optimistic tone, she told the class of 2025 that &#8220;the barriers to creation are as low as they\u2019ve ever been\u201d and there \u201care more possibilities before you than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to view the full article. Furman ID holders may access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>A transcript of Quayle&#8217;s speech may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/commencement-address-by-kristin-huguet-quayle-99\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s commencement speaker and alumna Kristin Huguet Quayle &#8217;99 is included in The New York Times&#8217; roundup of graduation keynote addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2773,51,6,52,32,134],"tags":[3434,993,3391,3392],"class_list":["post-38468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-commencement","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-new-york-times","tag-apple-inc","tag-class-of-2025","tag-commencement-address","tag-kristin-huguet-quayle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38472,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions\/38472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}