{"id":5468,"date":"2017-05-30T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrington.uri.edu\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2017-05-30T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:16:16","slug":"harrington2017-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/2017\/05\/30\/harrington2017-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Harrington2017 Graduation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Harrington School graduated nearly 450 students in undergraduate and graduate programs and more than 50% of them landed a full-time position prior to graduation day.<\/p>\n<p>This year was particularly important because both the undergraduate and graduate commencement speakers were part of the Harrington School Community. <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/vladimir-duthiers-commencement-address-to-the-university-of-rhode-island-may-21-2017\/\">Vladimir Duthiers<\/a>&nbsp;&#8217;91, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning CBS News Correspondent was the undergraduate commencement speaker and an honorary degree recipient. He is also a member of the Harrington School&#8217;s Executive Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/thomas-farraghers-commencement-address-to-the-university-of-rhode-island-graduate-school-may-20-2017\/\">Thomas Farragher<\/a> &#8217;77, graduated from our Journalism program and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Boston Globe and the leader of the infamous &#8220;Spotlight Team.&#8221; He was the commencement speaker for the Graduate School graduation ceremony and also received an honorary degree from the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, our student, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/commencement-2017-communication-studies-major-to-be-uri-commencement-student-speaker\/\">Colin Rumbel<\/a>, was the student commencement speaker, and, wow, are we proud of him and the speech he delivered!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10155336760024136.1073741850.394263314135&amp;type=1&amp;l=5c9fafd3c1\">See the Harrington School Graduation Photo Album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Harrington School graduated nearly 450 students in undergraduate and graduate programs and more than 50% of them landed a full-time position prior to graduation day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}