UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has walked back his earlier decision to cancel traditional graduation ceremonies, pledging to work with students to plan an alternative course.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has walked back his earlier decision to cancel traditional graduation ceremonies as a safety measure against the coronavirus outbreak, apologizing to students for not consulting with them first.
At UCLA, news of the planned cancellation prompted students to begin circulating at least three petitions urging campus officials to postpone, rather than cancel, traditional ceremonies. More than 20,000 people had signed them as of Friday. Another student, Sarah Bae, posted that she had been expelled from high school, earned her high school equivalency degree and attended three community colleges before making it to UCLA.
virtual ceremony only, a virtual ceremony in June plus an in-person graduation sometime during the next academic year, or a virtual ceremony in June and a traditional one specifically in spring 2021.
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