  {"id":17680,"date":"2021-04-10T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17680"},"modified":"2021-04-10T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:50:38","slug":"2021-graduation-ceremony-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/2021-graduation-ceremony-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 graduation ceremony decided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span><em>Western\u2019s Commencement Committee finalizes graduation plans\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over Spring Break, the ÀÖ²¥ÊÓÆµ Commencement Committee completed their discussion on how the 2021 Commencement ceremony will be hosted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the email sent out to seniors on March 29, the committee has decided to hold both a virtual and an in person celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For the in person celebration, students and their families will decorate their cars and drive along a designated \u201ccelebration route.\u201d At the end of the drive, each student will be able to walk across a graduation stage while being photographed by a professional photographer and their family, if desired. <\/span><span>These celebrations will take place on June 12 and June 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For students who are living off campus due to the pandemic, the committee has decided to host a <\/span><span>virtual Commencement ceremony where all of the graduates\u2019 names will be read. The virtual ceremony will be available on June 11 at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students interested in participating in both events will need to RSVP by visiting wou.edu\/graduation\/ by May 4 in order to participate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For all other questions email the registrar at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:clarkaj@wou.edu\"><span>clarkaj@wou.edu<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu\">scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western\u2019s Commencement Committee finalizes graduation plans\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Carpenter | News Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[987,867,868,866,869,143,146,145,39,361,222],"class_list":["post-17680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-celebration","tag-commencement","tag-commencement-committee","tag-graduation","tag-graduation-plans","tag-news","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-carpenter","tag-wou","tag-wou-students","tag-wou-update"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}