{"id":3604,"date":"2017-03-17T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=3604"},"modified":"2017-03-17T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:14:14","slug":"main-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/y2017\/main-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2017 Commencement Highlights<\/h1>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2bg6ebXjIQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<h2>2017 Main Commencement Ceremony<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sunday, May 21st, 12:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>URI Quadrangle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Main Commencement Ceremony recognizes the achievements of all of our graduates in a single event on the URI Quadrangle. Student diplomas are not presented at the main ceremony. Undergraduate degrees are presented at the individual college ceremonies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bluebox\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #002147;margin-top: 5px\">Live Streaming<\/h4>\n<p>The ceremony will be streamed live\u00a0on URI&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/4896157\/events\/7321194\" target=\"_blank\">Livestream<\/a><\/strong> channel for people at home. On campus, the ceremony will be livecast in Edwards Hall, the Ram&#8217;s Den in the Memorial Union, Mackal Field House and Keaney Gymnasium. Viewing sites open at 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #002147\">Share the Moments<\/h4>\n<p>Use the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/y2017\/uri2017\/\"><strong>#URI2017<\/strong><\/a> to share the highlights of your big day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Schedule<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Noon<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bachelor\u2019s degree candidates assemble in academic attire on Lower College Road in areas that are designated for each college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:20 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bagpipes and 50th Class step-off<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bell tolls and procession begins. After the procession is complete, Commencement exercises\u00a0will begin and run approximately 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/y2017\/speakers-and-honored-guests\/\">See the List of 2017 Speakers and Honored Guests \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Commencement Highlights 2017 Main Commencement Ceremony Sunday, May 21st, 12:30 p.m. URI Quadrangle Our Main Commencement Ceremony recognizes the achievements of all of our graduates in a single event on the URI Quadrangle. Student diplomas are not presented at the main ceremony. Undergraduate degrees are presented at the individual college ceremonies. Live Streaming The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":3601,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3604\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}