{"id":121386,"date":"2023-05-22T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=121386"},"modified":"2023-05-25T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:03:16","slug":"cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers to all! Celebrating spring graduation 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thousands of students, family, faculty and friends gathered at the UWM Panther Arena on Sunday for the UWM community\u2019s most joyous event \u2013 graduation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 3,400 degrees were awarded at ceremonies in the morning and afternoon. Honorary degrees were awarded to Peter Feigin, president of the Milwaukee Bucks and Fiserv Forum, and Mary Alfred, professor emerita of educational administration and human resource development at Texas A&amp;M University. Peggy Williams-Smith, CEO of Visit Milwaukee, gave the keynote address at both ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s lots of material online for anyone who wants to join the celebration, relive the day or experience it for the first time. That includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/gallery\/uwms-class-of-2023-shows-its-pride-at-commencement\/\">A photo gallery<\/a> of the happy graduates during the ceremonies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/streamingvideo\/commencements\/\">Streaming video<\/a> of both the black and gold ceremonies.<\/li>\n<li>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/video\/congratulations-uw-milwaukee-class-of-2023\/\">focusing on a few standout graduates<\/a> who share some memories and advice.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/video\/uwm-panther-minute-celebrating-graduation-with-guest-host-chancellor-mark-mone\/\">special edition of the Panther Minute<\/a> guest-hosted by Chancellor Mark Mone, who asks students about the favorite memories of UWM and advice for future students.<\/li>\n<li>A story <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-at-waukesha-graduates-first-four-year-nursing-class-2\/\">about the first graduating class<\/a> of nursing students who were able to complete all four years at UWM at Waukesha.<\/li>\n<li>A photo gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/gallery\/uwm-students-land-jobs-before-graduation\/\">featuring several students<\/a> who landed full-time jobs even before graduation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of students, family, faculty and friends gathered at the UWM Panther Arena on Sunday for the UWM community\u2019s most joyous event \u2013 graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3151,"featured_media":121387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"section":[122,126],"display_categories":[115,116],"related-coverage":[261],"uwmnews-feed":[167],"class_list":["post-121386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","section-campus-community","section-campus-news","display_categories-top-story-secondary","display_categories-top-story-section","related-coverage-graduation","uwmnews-feed-alumni-association"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cheers to all! 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