I would think it depends greatly on the size of the school. HS is one thing, college is another. Columbia actually didn't cancel commencement - what they cancelled is the overall one that supposedly includes something like 8,000 students - they can't seriously expect to have thousands of students individually named. That's insane. They'r…
I would think it depends greatly on the size of the school. HS is one thing, college is another. Columbia actually didn't cancel commencement - what they cancelled is the overall one that supposedly includes something like 8,000 students - they can't seriously expect to have thousands of students individually named. That's insane. They're still holding individual commencements for their various schools - there are 20 of them under the Columbia umbrella - I'm thinking like the school of business, the school of journalism, etc.
Very True. Many colleges and universities have one big ceremony with the President/Chancellor, other administrators, Board of Regents, and the main commencement speaker. The President/Chancellor officially confers the degrees and then everyone goes to a different location for their school/college ceremony where they receive their diploma and walk across the stage. This how we did it at the university I was at for >25 years. We also had to do undergraduate commencement on Sunday, with graduate commencement on Saturday. The graduate students didn't want to attend the undergraduate ceremony or the large ceremony and very few showed up. This change increased the number of graduate students who attended commencement. Of course, it was also another commencement that administrators and faculty had to attend.
I would think it depends greatly on the size of the school. HS is one thing, college is another. Columbia actually didn't cancel commencement - what they cancelled is the overall one that supposedly includes something like 8,000 students - they can't seriously expect to have thousands of students individually named. That's insane. They're still holding individual commencements for their various schools - there are 20 of them under the Columbia umbrella - I'm thinking like the school of business, the school of journalism, etc.
Very True. Many colleges and universities have one big ceremony with the President/Chancellor, other administrators, Board of Regents, and the main commencement speaker. The President/Chancellor officially confers the degrees and then everyone goes to a different location for their school/college ceremony where they receive their diploma and walk across the stage. This how we did it at the university I was at for >25 years. We also had to do undergraduate commencement on Sunday, with graduate commencement on Saturday. The graduate students didn't want to attend the undergraduate ceremony or the large ceremony and very few showed up. This change increased the number of graduate students who attended commencement. Of course, it was also another commencement that administrators and faculty had to attend.