{"id":4162,"date":"2015-12-15T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:48","slug":"commissioning-sash-and-pinning-ceremonies-accompany-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/15\/commissioning-sash-and-pinning-ceremonies-accompany-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioning, Sash and Pinning Ceremonies Accompany Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/12\/Sash-Ceremony.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>In addition to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/14\/winter-commencement-closes-centennial-year-dec-19\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winter Commencement Ceremony<\/a> at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19 in the arena of the M.O. Looney Complex, several 大象传媒 Departments will have their own ceremonies and events marking the completion of students&#8217; college experience:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18, World War I Museum\/Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, 大象传媒<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graduates from the nine colleges that make up the Pony Express Battalion of the Army ROTC, including one from 大象传媒 Western, will be commissioned as officers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Student Sash Ceremony, 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, Enright Community Room, Spratt Hall room 216<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a new tradition, graduating international students will be presented with a sash from their country of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nursing Pinning Ceremony, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, Fulkerson Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New nursing graduates are presented with a pin symbolic of their chosen profession.<\/p>\n<p><em>大象传媒 is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the Winter Commencement Ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19 in the arena of the M.O. Looney Complex, several 大象传媒 Departments will have their own ceremonies and events marking the completion of students&#8217; college experience: ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18, World War I Museum\/Liberty Memorial, Kansas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}