{"id":110253,"date":"2021-08-09T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=110253"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:21:34","slug":"wright-state-announces-changes-to-commencement-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/09\/wright-state-announces-changes-to-commencement-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State announces changes to commencement ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110261\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/09\/wright-state-announces-changes-to-commencement-ceremonies\/56940-masters-phd-spring-commencement-4-30-21-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110261\" class=\"size-large wp-image-110261\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/08\/spring-2021-commencement-56940_0291-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new commencement schedule will be introduced in December when the university will hold two ceremonies in the Wright State University Nutter Center.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University will hold separate graduation ceremonies for the Graduate School and undergraduate students, President Sue Edwards, Ph.D., announced in an email to the university community.<\/p>\n<p>The new schedule will be introduced in December when the university will hold two fall ceremonies in the Wright State University Nutter Center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduate School (Master&#8217;s\/doctoral students): <\/strong>Friday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Undergraduate students: <\/strong>Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10: a.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The university will also live stream each ceremony for family and friends who cannot attend in person.<\/p>\n<p>Future Dayton Campus commencement ceremonies will follow a similar schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Commencement is a day that our graduates and families cherish,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;It is a day that the entire university community looks forward to, watching our graduates beam with pride as they celebrate with their family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edwards said that Wright State will continue to monitor the pandemic and provide graduating students with updates on what to expect during the Fall Semester.<\/p>\n<p>Information on tickets for the ceremonies will be announced later in Fall Semester. The Commencement Implementation Committee is working diligently to make graduation a great day for each student.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the ceremonies will also be shared on Wright State&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/event\/commencement-graduation-ceremony\">commencement website<\/a> and university social media accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State will begin holding separate graduation ceremonies for the Graduate School and undergraduate students this December. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/09\/wright-state-announces-changes-to-commencement-ceremonies\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,729,2107,2060,725,715,2061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-commencement","category-graduate","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110286,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110253\/revisions\/110286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}