What did the graduate do?

A headline in The Guardian says that the son of a man who was deported is now "graduating high school." 

We've come a long way. 

Originally, Bryan Garner points out in Garner's Modern English Usage, graduating was something the school did to the student, and the idiomatic usage was that a student was graduated from the school. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the idiom changed to focus on the student, who graduated from the school. Now, from the late twentieth century to our time, graduate college in colloquial speech is increasingly turning up in published texts, and Garner expects that the usage will gain ground. 

The Associated Press Stylebook, meanwhile, is standing fast, at least for the moment:

"Graduate is correctly used in the active voice: She graduated from the university.

"It is correct, but unnecessary, to use the passive voice: He was graduated from the university.

"Do not, however, drop from: John Adams graduated from Harvard. Not: John Adams graduated Harvard."

Also standing its ground is Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage: "The particularly American English transitive type he graduated Yale in 1984 is often criticized and is best avoided." Sniff. 

The current Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary allows "I graduated college" as standard English, though it cautions in a usage note that some may consider it incorrect. 

So "was graduated from college," "graduated from college," and "graduated college" are all out there in the wild, and your choice among them will likely depend on the degree of stuffiness with which you are comfortable. As always in English, you pays your money and you takes your chances.