Caps and gowns.

L.A. college grads will be getting a dose of the wisdom of business, media, cultural and political figures in the coming weeks at their commencement ceremonies.

Carly Fiorina, chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, will deliver Caltech's commencement speech on June 11, as well as address UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science commencement on June 19.

Among others stopping at the Westwood campus are Frank Marshall. producer of "The Color Purple" and "The Sixth Sense" (College of Letters and Science); lawyer and TV personality Ben Stein (School of Law); Mattel Co. Chairman Robert A. Eckert (Anderson School); Paramount Chairman Sherry Lansing (School of Theater, Film and Television); and Walt Disney Co. Chairman George Mitchell (School of Public Policy and Research).

Republican Sen. John McCain is scheduled to address USC grads May 14. Later in the day, each of the college's schools stages a satellite ceremony with speakers from the specialty areas. Among these are Tom Steinberg, founder and chairman of Staples Inc., who will address the Marshall School of Business commencement; Westwood One Chairman Norman Pattiz, Graduate School of Communication; and CNN news anchor and correspondent Kyra Phillips at the School of Journalism.

Scheduled to speak at the Claremont Colleges commencements May 15 and 16 are former Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley (Claremont McKenna), former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite (Pomona), publisher and activist Gloria Steinem (Scripps) and Xerox chief scientist John Seely Brown (Claremont Graduate University).