{"id":18837,"date":"2015-05-20T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18837"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:25:56","slug":"photo-feature-spring-2015-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18837","title":{"rendered":"Photo feature: Spring 2015 Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000\u00a0participated in\u00a0spring\u00a02015 Commencement exercises May 15\u00a0at the Broadmoor World Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured comments by university dignitaries, as well as Student Achievement Award recipients Dylan Shuster and\u00a0Matthew Prichard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18845\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18845 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Wood (left), Megan Gallegos (center) and Shawna Rogers (right) pose after receiving their Masters of Business Administration\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samantha Wood (left), Megan Gallegos (center) and Shawna Rogers (right) pose after receiving their Masters of Business Administration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among the graduates,\u00a010 faculty and staff members\u00a0earned degrees. Faculty and staff graduated included:\u00a0Terainer Brown,\u00a0program manager,\u00a0Pre-Collegiate Support and Success Center;\u00a0Susan Fisher, program assistant, Admissions Services;\u00a0Megan Gallegos, marketing manager, University Marketing;\u00a0Garrett Gatlin, director, Chancellor&#8217;s Leadership Class and UCCSlead; Nancy Hoist, administrative assistant,\u00a0College of\u00a0Engineering and Applied Science;\u00a0John-Thomas Martinez, financial assistant, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Success and Enrollment Management;\u00a0Nate Raugutt, academic advisor,\u00a0College of\u00a0Engineering and Applied Science;\u00a0Shawna Rogers, director, Office of Professional and\u00a0Executive Development, College of Business;\u00a0Kathy Tirado, conference services meeting and event assistant, University Center; Samantha Wood,\u00a0director of alumni relations, College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Jenkins, president, Nor\u2019wood Development, received the Distinguished Service Award, an honor bestowed by the University of Colorado Board of Regents on individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement associated with the state or nation.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,322 students are scheduled to graduated from UCCS this spring. 360 earned graduate degrees and 962 with undergraduate degrees. In December, 784 students graduated. The 2,106 degrees granted by UCCS in 2014-2015 is the largest in the university\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jk89bjs3TjA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6747.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18853 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6747-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6747\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6747-555x370.jpg 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555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18850 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7309\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7309.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18852 size-large\" 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The event featured comments by university dignitaries, as well as Student Achievement Award recipients Dylan Shuster and Matthew Prichard. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18837\" title=\"Photo feature: Spring 2015 Commencement\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18863,"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":[1,12,13,22],"tags":[42,197],"class_list":["post-18837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-photo-features","category-video","tag-commencement","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_1933-300x2001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","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=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19098,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions\/19098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}