Of Course People Are Protesting Betsy DeVos’s Invitation to Speak at Bethune-Cookman

Published May 3, 2017 2:15pm ET



In the contemporary campus climate, that lovely stretch from the latter half of April to the first blush of May is also controversial commencement speaker season. The most contested, in a year in which her raked-over confirmation proceedings garnered outsize news coverage, will probably be Betsy DeVos—who’s scheduled to address graduates next week at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona, Florida, a historically black college.

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