{"id":9847,"date":"2020-04-27T18:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:26:15","slug":"advisory-augsburg-celebrates-class-of-2020-with-virtual-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/advisory-augsburg-celebrates-class-of-2020-with-virtual-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisory: Augsburg celebrates Class of 2020 with virtual commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University will host a virtual commencement ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2020.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Augsburg_Logo_Maroon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9306 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Augsburg_Logo_Maroon-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"Augsburg University logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Augsburg_Logo_Maroon-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Augsburg_Logo_Maroon-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Augsburg_Logo_Maroon-1024x391.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The virtual commencement ceremony consists of a prerecorded ceremony that will be streamed online. There are two viewing times when graduates, families, and friends can watch and chat together in real time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday, May 29, 2020, 7 p.m. Central.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, May 31, 2020, 2 p.m. Central.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can follow the celebration through the hashtag #AuggieGrad on all social media platforms, where students will be sharing images of their virtual celebration.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as it\u2019s safe to have large gatherings, an\u00a0in-person commencement ceremony\u00a0will be planned for the Class of 2020 with the more familiar traditions of commencement.<\/p>\n<p>The in-person commencement ceremony, previously scheduled for May 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium, was canceled given the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/commencement\/\">Augsburg&#8217;s commencement site<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University will host a virtual commencement ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2020. The virtual commencement ceremony consists of a prerecorded ceremony that will be streamed online. There are two viewing times when graduates, families, and friends can watch and chat together in real time. Friday, May 29, 2020, 7 p.m. Central. Sunday, May &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}