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When Credibility Matters

When Credibility Matters

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Colleges set to celebrate graduates | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Share1 Colleges and universities across the Capital Region are set to celebrate graduates over the coming weeks, employing a variety of approaches – some of which will only include the graduates. The ceremonies differ from school to school but reflect the restrictions schools have been forced to work under – even as venues are given more and more room to host visitors. While Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced outdoor venues would b...

Union College announces plans for outdoor graduation ceremonies | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Share1 GAZETTE COVERAGE The separate ceremonies will be held at the college’s traditional graduation spot, Hull Plaza, the patio and lawn spreading out from the college’s Schaffer Library. The main site will not allow in visitors beyond the graduates, under recently-released state guidelines for graduation events, but Union plans to allow each graduate two ticketed guests who can join a separate out...

Without much thinking, Deirdre Hill Butler knows exactly what the fondest memory of her past two decades at Union College has been. On Oct. 22, 2007…

On my windowsill, there is a cloisonné egg, a dried rose given to me by Franz Klammer and a turquoise toy Fiat 1500. The egg is mine, it was gifted to me by my grandfather. The car is not mine, however. But I remember that I found it in the bottom of a box, mixed in with objects that once belonged to the little boy my father once was. I love objects with stories. I miss visiting the homes of my friends and seeing the objects they have preserved — which ones they deem worthy of keeping on the...