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Oregon State University – Cascades will host the first-ever graduation event on its campus on Sunday, June 12. The graduating class includes 290 students. Nearly 220 students plan to participate in the inaugural on-campus ceremony, and officials anticipate that more than 2,000 family and friends of graduates will attend. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on the oval green at the center of recently remediated land that was formerly a 100-foot-deep pumice mine. Becky Johnson, interim president of Oregon State University, who served as the leader of OSU-Cascades from 2009 until 2021, will give the commencement address. The OSU-Cascades campus opened in 2016, but it was not until this year that the grounds had been developed sufficiently to support a major event. In its early years, OSU-Cascades was housed in leased buildings and did not have a campus of its own. A record number, 8% of the graduating class, or 24 students, are veterans of the U.S. military service. Students of colo