Cal Poly Humboldt graduating senior Angel Barker wasn’t expecting to receive her diploma at a casino. “My high school graduation was a drive-thru in the parking lot because it was in 2020 at the beginning of COVID-19,” Barker said. “I was really excited to have my family see me walk across the stage at the […]
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Cal Poly Humboldt Honors Betty Kwan Chinn During Commencement
Betty Kwan Chinn became the first person in Cal Poly Humboldt’s fresh history — and just the 13th in the campus’ 109-year history — to receive an honorary doctorate degree Saturday. During the ceremony, Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. and Provost Jenn Capps spoke of Chinn’s decades of services in Humboldt County working to […]
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HSU and CR Commencement Ceremonies This Weekend; HSU to Honor Yurok Spiritual Leader
Congratulations to all Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods graduates! The schools will be celebrating their graduates at this weekend’s commencement ceremonies both in-person and virtually. Although CR’s in-person graduation ceremony was canceled due to COVID-19, the college has opted to hold a virtual ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday via Facebook Watch and […]
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HSU to Have Virtual Commencement Ceremony
Humboldt State University will be hosting a virtual graduation ceremony for this semester’s graduating students May 16, the same day the in-person ceremony would’ve been held at the Redwood Bowl. The university shuttered its campus and shifted entirely to online instruction March 17 as fears mounted about the COVID-19 pandemic, and administrators have been working […]
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‘Today is Your Day:’ Charmaine Lawson Accepts Son’s Degree in Emotional Ceremony
Ponchos, umbrellas and rain jackets surrounded Humboldt State University’s Redwood Bowl this morning as graduates celebrated their commencement. Among them, in a full cap, gown and graduation stole, was Charmaine Lawson, sitting in place of her son, David Josiah Lawson. David Josiah Lawson, who was a 19-year-old sophomore when he was fatally stabbed at an […]
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Four Years Later, Spring Preview Bus Crash Survivors Set to Graduate
Saturday will mark an unlikely right of passage for Humboldt State University senior Rosibeth Cuevas. It’s not just that she will be the first in her family to graduate from college when she walks across the Redwood Bowl stage to get her degree in criminology and justice studies. It’s also that she is one of […]
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A Graduation Day Downpour: An HSU Commencement Slideshow by Mark Larson
Rain fell during most of HSU’s first commencement ceremony on Saturday morning, the weather thematically appropriate for HSU’s informal motto: “I love Hills, Stairs & Umbrellas!” Most of the large crowd of attendees came prepared with umbrellas and rain gear, but HSU staff handed out free plastic ponchos to those who missed the weather forecast. […]