{"id":1319940,"date":"2020-05-14T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=478000"},"modified":"2020-05-14T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T01:02:56","slug":"cmc-kicks-off-virtual-commencement-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/cmc-kicks-off-virtual-commencement-season\/","title":{"rendered":"CMC kicks off virtual commencement season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDWARDS \u2014&nbsp;Commencement season is still Carrie Besnette Hauser\u2019s favorite time of year, but like everyone else, the Colorado Mountain College president will celebrate from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>CMC always kicks off commencement season, and like every other school, they\u2019ll host virtual celebrations.<\/p>\n<h3>How that works<\/h3>\n<p>CMC students were mailed a package containing a mortarboard and tassel, a letter from Hauser, alumni swag and other items. Graduates are supposed to enter information and photos to CMC\u2019s commencement website. That <a href=\"http:\/\/commencement2020.coloradomtn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website goes live<\/a> at noon Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Once it\u2019s live, it will be open to the public. The broadcast is scheduled to be available at least through the summer. CMC is asking graduates to pull together \u201cwatch parties\u201d of friends and family members and to post photos on social media with #cmcgrad2020 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colomtn.edu\/gradphotos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.colomtn.edu\/gradphotos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row vail-donation vail-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The broadcasts are being tailored for the students\u2019 home campuses, including their keynote speaker and a student speaker from their campus.<\/p>\n<p>Then they\u2019ll hear what they\u2019ve been waiting and working for, reading their names and the degrees or credentials they\u2019ve earned. A member of the elected CMC Board of Trustees will confer diplomas and certificates, and their campus student speaker will lead their classmates in turning their tassels.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing kicks off with speeches from Hauser and Angie Paccione, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<h3>Spirit remains the same<\/h3>\n<p>The delivery shifted from in-person to online, but the occasion\u2019s spirit has not, Hauser said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a time when everyone who has supported that student in reaching an important life goal \u2014 their families, their friends, the faculty who have taught them and counselors and other staff who have guided them on their journey \u2014 get to cheer and celebrate with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 academic year is different than anyone could have imagined, Hauser said. Every college and university in Colorado has been impacted by efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Classes moved online; some students moved back home while a handful of others stayed quarantined in their residence halls. And virtually every commencement ceremony in Colorado has been canceled outright or postponed.<br \/>\u201cWe have all found ourselves persevering through this unforgettable year,\u201d Hauser said.<\/p>\n<h3>Celebrating Women\u2019s Suffrage<\/h3>\n<p>Along with the graduates, CMC\u2019s commencement celebrates the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of women\u2019s right to vote with the passage of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Commencement speakers include a state Supreme Court justice, a lieutenant governor, the heads of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, the Department of Agriculture, founder and CEO of a well-known outdoor products company, and directors of several powerful nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>Their recorded CMC commencement speeches will be incorporated into a video project for the \u201cBold Women. Change History.\u201d initiative organized by History Colorado and the governor\u2019s Women\u2019s Vote Centennial Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Y. Casteel, chief executive officer of The Women\u2019s Foundation of Colorado, will be the featured speaker for CMC\u2019s Edwards\/Vail Valley campus. When Casteel joined The Women\u2019s Foundation of Colorado in February 2015, she became the first person in Colorado to lead three separate foundations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/cmc-kicks-off-virtual-commencement-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDWARDS \u2014&nbsp;Commencement season is still Carrie Besnette Hauser\u2019s favorite time of year, but like everyone else, the Colorado Mountain College president will celebrate from a distance. CMC always kicks off commencement season, and like every other school, they\u2019ll host virtual celebrations. How that works CMC students were mailed a package containing a mortarboard and tassel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 22:33:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319955,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319940\/revisions\/1319955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}