{"id":1143,"date":"2010-05-05T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:09:11","slug":"saturdays-the-big-day-friday-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2010\/05\/05\/saturdays-the-big-day-friday-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s the Big Day (Friday, too)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1145\" style=\"margin: 4px 3px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2010\/05\/graduationcaps.jpg\" alt=\"graduationcaps\" width=\"185\" height=\"250\" \/>Nearly 1000 graduates will be earning degrees during Commencement this Saturday, May 8. The event begins at 1 p.m. on Fiske Quad.<\/p>\n<p>Besides granting associate&#8217;s, bachelor&#8217;s, and master&#8217;s degrees to our illustrious students, the College will also honor Dr. Carol Geary Schneider, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association of American Colleges and Universities<\/a> (AAC&amp;U), with an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree and past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/alumni\/association.cfm\">Alumni Association<\/a> Board President David Gagne with the 2010 Granite State Award.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 7, the College will give special recognition to all those students who have excelled in scholarship and leadership or earned undergraduate academic honors (with a GPA of 3.5 or better). That all takes place during the Spring Honors Convocation at 4 p.m. in the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/newsevents\/default.cfm?Type=NewsDetail&amp;News_ID=2320\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1000 graduates will be earning degrees during Commencement this Saturday, May 8. The event begins at 1 p.m. on Fiske Quad. Besides granting associate&#8217;s, bachelor&#8217;s, and master&#8217;s degrees to our illustrious students, the College will also honor Dr. Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U), with an honorary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2010\/05\/05\/saturdays-the-big-day-friday-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday&#8217;s the Big Day (Friday, too)!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mark-your-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}