{"id":11016,"date":"2013-05-28T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:26:42","slug":"photo-feature-spring-2013-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=11016","title":{"rendered":"Photo feature: Spring 2013 Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 800 spring graduates\u00a0participated in formal commencement exercises on May 24 at the World Arena.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in UCCS history,\u00a0\u00a0colleges were split between two commencement ceremonies to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0the large class size and to\u00a0ensure that the number of guests each graduate can bring is not limited.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured comments by university dignitaries as well as\u00a0Tucker Hart Adams, a local economist and this year\u2019s recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n<p>To see videos of the festivities, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/commencement\/\">http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/commencement\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of the event follow. Additional pictures are available in the following Facebook albums: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151417925241363.1073741830.243117181362&amp;type=3\">Spring 2013 Morning Commencement<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151417929846363.1073741831.243117181362&amp;type=3\">Spring 2013 Afternoon Commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0548.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11017\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0548-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0548\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0548-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0548-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0548.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0596.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11018\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0596-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0596\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0596-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0596-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0596.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0949.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11019\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0949-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0949\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0949-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0949-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0949.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_1127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11020\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_1127-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1127\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_1127-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_1127-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_1127.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>About 800 spring graduates\u00a0participated in formal commencement exercises on May 24 at the World Arena. For the first time in UCCS history,\u00a0\u00a0colleges were split between two commencement ceremonies to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0the large class size and to\u00a0ensure that <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=11016\" title=\"Photo feature: Spring 2013 Commencement\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[42,197],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-photo-features","tag-commencement","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0548-555x370.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-2RG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29231,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/29231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}