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<\/a>More than 1,400 students earned their degrees from UW-Stevens Point Saturday, as Peter McPartland, CEO and chairman of the board at Sentry Insurance, told grads to create their own job market. View Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Faculty get one last goodbye<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Record number graduate from UW-Stevens Point More than 1,400 students earned their degrees from UW-Stevens Point Saturday, as Peter McPartland, CEO and chairman of the board at Sentry Insurance, told grads to create their own job market. View Photos Faculty get one last goodbye Students walk through a tunnel of supporting faculty at commencement. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,18,21,23],"tags":[189,300,305,341,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tunnel\"](\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/tunnel.jpg\")
<\/a>Students walk through a tunnel of supporting faculty at commencement. Make sure you watch for Chancellor Patterson at the end! Watch the tradition of grads walk through a tunnel of supporting faculty members<\/a><\/p>\nCumley retires from School of Communicative Disorders<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Graduates weren’t the only ones feeling nostalgic at commencement. Serving as grand marshall, Professor Gary Cumley, Ph.D. ended his 19-year tenure in the School of Communicative Disorders. Read More<\/a><\/p>\nHired Before Graduation<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>College of Professional Studies Class of 2014 seniors were being hired even before they graduate! See where these Pointers are starting their careers.\u00a0Read More<\/a> | WAOW Video<\/a><\/p>\nMarried CPS grads find home at UWSP<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>“It was a very inclusive environment, and I don\u2019t know if we would have been as successful if we had gone somewhere else.\u201d Married CPS graduates Anna Haug<\/strong> (health care administration and biology\/pre-physician assistant) and Trevor Haug<\/strong> (accounting and business administration-FIRE) talk about how UWSP was the perfect fit for them.\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\nGolden Iris mother-son duo has CPS ties<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Each year, there’s a special group of alumni who are honored during graduation weekend. The Golden Iris Reunion is a celebration of alumni who graduated 50 years ago or more. School of Education alumna and 102-year-old mother Leona Shirek ’62 and her son Bob ’64 were both life-long teachers. View Photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"