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On Dec. 5, more than 1,200 graduate students, family, friends, staff, and faculty participated in ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global’s Winter 2020 Virtual Commencement ceremony. Through a livestream, ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global President Pamela Toney conferred degrees to 345 bachelor’s degree and 266 master’s degree students. 

View the ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global Winter 2020 Commencement Ceremony.

This was the university’s third year doing a virtual commencement in December, which included remarks from President Toney, ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ System Chancellor Tony Frank, Keynote Speaker Frannie Matthews, and Student Speaker Deirdre Jonker. 

Many graduates submitted heartfelt thank you videos to their friends and families that were shared through the ceremony, as well as live social media sessions on Facebook and Twitter. Also, a special thanks goes to 2020 ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global graduate Laurine Anne Carreon for singing the national anthem. 

³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global has come a long way since its first cohort of 208 students in 2008. Today the university has enrolled or graduated more than 40,000 students from every U.S. state and territory, and over 64 countries.

³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global was able to offer a fully virtual Commencement ceremony to gather students, families, faculty, staff, and friends to celebrate the Class of 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic. Similar to how ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global provides online certificates and degrees that allow students to continue their education and achieve their goals from wherever they might live, the virtual ceremony allowed graduates to connect, engage, and celebrate online from wherever they may be in the world.  

Congratulations, ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Global Class of 2020!