Here's the schedule:
SATURDAY
Johnson & Wales University
Culinary and hospitality ceremony: 8-10:30 a.m., Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence. Brian J. Foye, 1985 MBA graduate, president of Seasons 52 of Darden Restaurants is the speaker and will receive an honorary degree.
Arts, science, business, technology ceremony: 2-4:30 p.m., Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence. Steven L. Spinner, president and chief executive officer of United Natural Foods Inc., is the speaker and will receive an honorary degree.
Rhode Island College
Undergraduate ceremony, 9:30 a.m. on the college's esplanade. Marie Elizabeth Petrarca, a supporter of the arts community in Rhode Island, is the keynote speaker.
Roger Williams University
Undergraduate ceremony, 10 a.m. in a tent on the main athletic field on the Bristol campus. Historian John M. Barry, biographer of Roger Williams, is the speaker and will receive an honorary degree.
Bryant University
Undergraduate ceremony, 10 a.m., outside next to residence hall 16 on the Smithfield campus. Historian Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Random House executive editor and executive vice president, is the commencement speaker.
University of Rhode Island
Graduate school ceremony, 1 p.m. in the Ryan Center on the South Kingstown campus. Mary E. Kennard vice president, general counsel and secretary for American University is the speaker and will receive an honorary award.
SUNDAY MAY 19
Salve Regina University
Undergraduate ceremony, 10 a.m. behind the O'Hare Academic Center on the Newport campus. Nicholas W. Benson and his father John E. Benson, proprietors of John Stevens Shop and artists behind Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and John F. Kennedy Memorial, will be the main speakers and receive honorary degrees.
Providence College
Undergraduate ceremony, 11 a.m. at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence. The Rev. Robert Barron, creator and host of the "Catholicism" documentary series and founder of a global media ministry, will give the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate in religious education.
University of Rhode Island
Undergraduate ceremony, 12:30 p.m. in the Ryan Center on the South Kingstown campus. URI will confer honorary doctorate degrees upon Carolyn Rafaelian and Giovanni Feroce, the founder and CEO, respectively, of Alex and Ani. Feroce, will address the graduating class. Rafealian will share a few words with the graduates as well.