UW-Milwaukee to hold virtual commencement on May 16
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will award more than 3,400 degrees in a virtual ceremony on Sunday, May 16.
The university will present 2,377 bachelor’s degrees, 731 master’s degrees, 143 doctoral degrees, 36 flexible option degrees and 135 associate degrees. The oldest degree bachelor’s degree recipient is 73-years-old, and the youngest is 19.
Officials say Student Association President Emma Mae Weber, who is graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Letters & Science, will be the student speaker.
Officials also say this years commencement speaker will be Darian Dixon, a UWM alum who plays a key role on NASA’s $3 billion Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February.
For the Class of 2021, graduation may have felt like a long time coming, but the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving one last reminder of how little has been normal in their recent college years.
Across the state, colleges and universities have come up with myriad innovative and socially distanced ways to celebrate the accomplishments of college seniors. All are compromises made in lieu of what students, families and school officials were truly hoping for: a safe return to auditoriums and stadiums with teary-eyed grandmas, overzealous dads, silly string and champagne.
Some schools are limiting in-person ceremonies to students, with a livestream option for family and friends. Others are allowing between two and six guests per graduate. There are colleges taking a hybrid approach, with a virtual ceremony but an in-person diploma pickup or drive-thru celebration. And there are those who will spend yet another year celebrating graduates almost entirely virtually.
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