AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella delivered an address and received an honorary doctorate degree during the University of Hartford’s graduate commencement ceremony on May 18 in West Hartford, Connecticut. “At a time when there has been a decoupling of higher education from the American Dream, Hartford demonstrates through its mission, vision, and values the ways in which colleges and universities can meet our nation’s historic mission of educating for democracy, preparing students for work, citizenship, and life,” Pasquerella said in her address. Pasquerella also received an honorary doctorate degree during the commencement ceremony of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, on May 2 and another honorary doctorate at the commencement ceremony of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, on May 19.