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Feel the learn! Bernie Sanders will be Brooklyn College commencement speaker
The Brooklyn Paper:Sen. Bernie Sanders is finally getting a degree from Brooklyn College — 58 years after he enrolled!
The Midwood-born former presidential hopeful is returning to his native land to give the school’s commencement address at Barclays Center in May, where may also receive an honorary doctorate.
“We are honored to be able to welcome Bernie home this spring to this great college, and to have him send off the Class of 2017,” said college president Michelle Anderson.
Sanders (I–Vermont) enrolled at Brooklyn College after graduating from James Madison High School in 1959, but only stayed there a year before transferring to the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
