{"id":493,"date":"2013-12-17T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=493"},"modified":"2013-12-17T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:57:19","slug":"first-commencement-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/12\/17\/first-commencement-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"First Commencement Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I attended my first UW-Parkside Commencement ceremony, where I performed a new task: reading the names of graduates in my college. I was quite nervous about that, as I did not want to mispronounce anyone&#8217;s name, and had never read names before. Additionally, I was told that the phonetic spellings that some students write on the cards they hand you do more harm than good. Three or four times I hesitated before reading the names, and the students in those instances helped me by whispering the pronunciation, and I think I did OK with the rest. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>I did make a mistake with the first three students, however: I just read each student&#8217;s name instead of her\/his name, degree, and major. I corrected myself with the fourth student, and it was smooth sailing after that.<\/p>\n<p>One additional change for this Commencement vs. the ceremonies I attended at the University of Minnesota: I borrowed one of the robes kept by the Office of the Chancellor instead of having regalia rented for me. Since I&#8217;ll now be wearing regalia much more often as an administrator than I did as a faculty member I think I&#8217;ll go ahead and buy my own. It&#8217;ll be nice to get that cool doctoral tam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I attended my first UW-Parkside Commencement ceremony, where I performed a new task: reading the names of graduates in my college. I was quite nervous about that, as I did not want to mispronounce anyone&#8217;s name, and had never read names before. Additionally, I was told that the phonetic spellings that some students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22237],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-role-transition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}