{"id":18566,"date":"2020-12-11T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:03:57","slug":"frostburg-state-university-recognizes-december-2020-graduates-with-virtual-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/frostburg-state-university-recognizes-december-2020-graduates-with-virtual-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Frostburg State University Recognizes December 2020 Graduates With Virtual Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">Frostburg State University will recognize its 518 December graduates with a virtual commencement celebration on Friday, Dec. 11, on the FSU website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/commencement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.frostburg.edu\/commencement<\/a>. FSU social media outlets have been running a series of campaigns in the week leading up to the virtual celebration, including displaying student-decorated mortarboards and a welcome video from Frostburg alumni of all generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">An in-person commencement ceremony, postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held when large gatherings are again permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">The virtual celebration will feature addresses from FSU President Nowaczyk, University System of Maryland Regent James Holzapfel and the three student commencement speakers, Matthew Maust from the College of Business, Abigail Burdock from the College of Education and Olivia Shaffer from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">Maust, of Grantsville, Md., graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a double concentration is human resources and business management. Burdock, of Finzel, graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in early childhood education. Shaffer, of Swanton, Md., graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree in interpretive biology and natural history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">For more information about\u00a0<span class=\"x_mark80pimj7w0\">commencement<\/span>\u00a0activities, including the virtual Grad Week, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/commencement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.frostburg.edu\/commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xpressrelease\">Situated in the mountains of Allegany County, Frostburg State University is one of the 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland. FSU is a comprehensive, residential regional university and serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.frostburg.edu<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrostburgStateUniversity. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFrostburgStateUniversity&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cthebottomline%40frostburg.edu%7Ccb3fd9134d6c470d15a008d89d0e3c71%7Cb8f95ed12a184246810403a67478d3a3%7C1%7C0%7C637432031771757846%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=2blKoFJQYJWw0RRfegbvhQsW80rRd99VQf4%2FRRzzTFM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">facebook.com\/frostburgstateuniversity<\/a>. Follow FSU on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/twitter.com\/frostburgstate. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ffrostburgstate&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cthebottomline%40frostburg.edu%7Ccb3fd9134d6c470d15a008d89d0e3c71%7Cb8f95ed12a184246810403a67478d3a3%7C1%7C0%7C637432031771767833%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=NuDO%2Fz5Mzzi5qD5mqscMdoR4EIzzsqNZTuR8yEhXCfc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\">@frostburgstate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frostburg State University will recognize its 518 December graduates with a virtual commencement celebration on Friday, Dec. 11, on the FSU website at\u00a0www.frostburg.edu\/commencement. FSU social media outlets have been running a series of campaigns in the week leading up to the virtual celebration, including displaying student-decorated mortarboards and a welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campusnews","category-collegelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grad-speakers-dec-2020.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4j5eQ-4Ps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18568,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions\/18568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}