{"id":13369,"date":"2020-05-01T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:15:40","slug":"2020-commencement-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/2020-commencement-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College Postpones 2020 Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the in-person Commencement will be postponed, the College will hold a virtual Conferral of Degrees ceremony on June 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In response to the coronavirus pandemic and recommendations from public health organizations, Kalamazoo College has announced it is postponing its in-person Commencement 2020 ceremony until a later date.<\/p>\n

In a message to the senior class, President Jorge G. Gonzalez said, \u201cThis has been a tremendously difficult decision for us to make; however, public health experts continue to advise against large group gatherings as we head into summer. While the tradition of Commencement is sacred and dear, your safety and the safety of your families must come first. Nevertheless, I want to reassure you that we will have a Commencement ceremony for the class of 2020 on campus once it is safe to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

While in-person events will be postponed, the College will hold a virtual Conferral of Degrees ceremony on June 14. Members of K\u2019s Class of 2020 and their friends and families are invited to gather together online as College leadership recognizes each student and confers their Kalamazoo College degrees.<\/p>\n

More information on K\u2019s response to COVID-19 can be found at the link<\/a> listed on the Kalamazoo College homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Gonzalez said, \u201cThis has been a tremendously difficult decision for us to make; however, public health experts continue to advise against large group gatherings as we head into summer. While the tradition of Commencement is sacred and dear, your safety and the safety of your families must come first. Nevertheless, I want to reassure you that we will have a Commencement ceremony for the class of 2020 on campus once it is safe to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While in-person events will be postponed, the College will hold a virtual Conferral of Degrees ceremony on June 14. Members of K\u2019s Class of 2020 and their friends and families are invited to gather together online as College leadership recognizes each student and confers their Kalamazoo College degrees.<\/p>\n<p>More information on K\u2019s response to COVID-19 can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/healthcenter.kzoo.edu\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-campus-updates\/\">the link<\/a> listed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/\">Kalamazoo College homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15209,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/15209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}