{"id":20528,"date":"2020-12-18T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2020-12-18T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:12:25","slug":"esu-to-confer-447-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-to-confer-447-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU to Confer 447 Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 447 students will receive degrees from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania on December 19, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional ceremonies could not take place, but all degrees will be conferred upon completion of coursework.<\/p>\n<p>ESU will share messages from Kenneth Long, interim president; Nancy VanArsdale, Ph.D., professor of English and president of ESU\u2019s chapter of the Association of Pennsylvania State Colleges &#038; University Faculties (APSCUF); Christina Steffy M\u201920, graduate student speaker; and Dushan Chacon \u201920, undergraduate student speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Along with their remarks, a video presentation including photos submitted by graduating students was created, along with a digital copy of a commemorative booklet. All can be found at the celebration website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esu.edu\/celebrate\">www.esu.edu\/celebrate<\/a>, on Saturday, December 19, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Students will receive a copy of the commemorative booklet via mail, along with a graduation tassel and any honors cords they have earned.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 327 bachelor\u2019s degrees, 112 master\u2019s degrees and eight doctoral degrees will be awarded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/press-release-no-honors-12-15-20.pdf\">Winter 2020 Graduates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 447 students will receive degrees from ESU on December 19, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional ceremonies could not take place, but all degrees will be conferred upon completion of coursework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20530,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}