  {"id":132076,"date":"2020-12-08T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=132076"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:56:38","slug":"fall-2020-uh-commencement-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/08\/fall-2020-uh-commencement-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2020 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> commencement schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc.jpg\" alt=\"3 students in commencement gown with sunset behind them\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> campuses, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa will celebrate the accomplishments of their graduates with fall commencement in a year transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> will recognize all the 2020 graduates with a virtual ceremony on Saturday, December 12, 9 a.m. Approximately 350 students will earn bachelor\u2019s degrees in the fall, and will be joined by spring and summer graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-recorded ceremony features remarks by Chancellor <strong>Maenette K.P. Ah Nee-Benham<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>, Faculty Senate Chair <strong>Edward Keaunui<\/strong>, <abbr>ASUHWO<\/abbr> President <strong>Jenna Marie Marcos<\/strong> and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs <strong>Jeffrey Moniz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/commencement\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> commencement website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/h2>\n<p>On Saturday, December 19, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo will hold a k\u012bhei tying ceremony at 8:30 a.m. via Zoom, a virtual commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. and student-only drive-through event starting at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 279 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo students, including summer graduates, will receive their degrees and certificates at the virtual commencement ceremony, which includes a pre-recorded video of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo leadership team along with name cards that include pictures and messages from graduates. Each graduate will have a &ldquo;clickable&rdquo; student page that displays their degree and certificate types, along with their uploaded pictures and messages.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/commencement\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo commencement website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/h2>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa will post Mahalo Messages from graduates, recorded speeches by <abbr>PBS<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CEO<\/abbr> and President Leslie Wilcox, and this semester\u2019s student speaker, public health <abbr>PhD<\/abbr> candidate <strong>Amalie &#699;Alohilani Monlux<\/strong> and a PDF of the commencement program on Monday, December 21.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 1,985 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students will graduate this fall, including summer students, and all 2020 graduates will be eligible to participate in a future in-person ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/commencement\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa commencement website<\/a>. Individual colleges, schools and programs may hold additional events for their graduates. Please check their websites for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> celebrates at fall commencement at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[234,1411,14,9,59],"class_list":["post-132076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-commencement","tag-covid-19","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132132,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132076\/revisions\/132132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}