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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to speak at NAU commencements

• KTAR

He will address the graduating classes for the College of Engineering, Informatics and Applied Sciences and the College of the Environment, Forestry and Natural Sciences.

Gates said in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday that he does not give many commencement speeches, but he saw something unique in NAU's operations that he clamored for more of in the United States.

"In America, the value of a degree from any given school is traditionally thought about in terms of how prestigious and exclusive the school is," Gates said. "In general, conversations about higher education tend to focus more on the students' input than the school's output. … Ironically, the more students a school accepts and the easier it is to attend and graduate from, the lower that school has traditionally been ranked.