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Minot State University students will graduate this Friday with big plans for the future after a year filled with COVID-19 precautions.
“Things have certainly been different this year,” said Jordan Will, an accounting major.
Will, who also has participated on the MSU football and wrestling teams, said he was grateful to have been able to keep playing, albeit with a lot of testing protocols in place to make it viable.
He’s also glad that his family and friends will be there to help him celebrate this year.
Minot State’s 106th Commencement Exercise will be live with limited capacity starting at 10 a.m. Friday in the MSU Dome. MSU will honor its 2021 and 2020 graduating classes at the ceremony as 2020’s live event was canceled due to COVID-19.
May 7, 2021
Minot State University President Steven Shirley will present long-time Minot resident Milton Rolle with an honorary degree at the university’s 2021 commencement ceremony.
Minot State’s 106th Commencement Exercise will be live with limited capacity starting at 10 a.m. on May 14. MSU will honor its 2021 and 2020 graduating classes at the ceremony as 2020’s live event was canceled due to COVID-19.
The university will bestow Rolle with an Honorary Bachelor of General Studies degree.
“I had fabulous teachers at Minot State Teachers College, which is what we called it, and got a heck of an education,” said Rolle, a native of Brinsmade. “But I never really tried to get an actual degree. I took classes that I thought would benefit me in life. I took every course that I thought would be an advantage to me, from income tax and accounting to speech and writing.