The Academic Registrar, Alfred Masikye says the 5-day graduation ceremony kicks off on Monday 17th to Friday 21st May.
The graduation will be held virtually in observance of the Covid-19 preventive Standard Operation Procedures and only students who have scored first class in various programs will attend the function physically.
According to the schedule, Schools of Law, College of Health Sciences and College of Natural Sciences will graduate on Monday.
Students from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and College of Education & External Studies will graduate on Tuesday, while those from the College of Business and Management Sciences, College of Computing and Information Sciences and College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Bio-security will graduate on Wednesday.
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The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith on Saturday completed a series of socially distanced commencement ceremonies to honor the 2021 graduates following last week s event for the class of 2020.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, in-person commencement ceremonies were not held in December for the class of 2020. While close to 200 students walked the stage on May 1, there were 810 graduates in the class of 2020 who earned bachelor s degrees; 247 who earned associate degrees; 119 who earned technical certificates; and 12 who earned master s degrees.
The 2021 candidates who walked May 7-9 included those graduating in the spring and summer 2021 semesters and comprised 542 bachelor s degree candidates; 172 associate degree candidates; 75 technical certificate candidates; and eight master s degree candidates, including the five students who are the first to graduate from the university s Master of Education program.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 10, 2021) This past year, the University Senate and its executive body, the Senate Council, worked hard to balance the needs of instructors and students, who have been caught up in a whirlwind of unanticipated, life-changing shifts.
Aaron Cramer, chair of the University Senate Council and faculty member in the College of Engineering, explains that “because the Senate is comprised of about 100 elected faculty senators, plus 18 students and various administrators, the University Senate is always poised to provide input and present solutions, even more so during these challenging times.”
Jennifer Bird-Pollan, former Senate Council chair and faculty member in the Rosenberg College of Law, recalls the beginning of the pandemic.
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Due to limited seating, tickets are needed for entry to the ceremonies. Tickets were reserved by the May 7 deadline.
For those unable to attend, all ceremonies will be livestreamed on the university s YouTube channel, which may be accessed via the UKNow homepage, or the UK Commencement website May 14-16.
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