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POSTPONE COMMENCEMENT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2020

POSTPONE COMMENCEMENT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2020

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Started by Portland State Uni 6 years, 5 months ago
Portland State University has canceled the 2020 commencement ceremony. Class of 2020 deserves to have a in-person commencement ceremony. Please sign this petition if you want in-person graduation to be postponed and not canceled!!

Updates

March 26, 2020

The administration remains silent on our demand for a ceremony but the volume of your comments proves we will not be ignored. Send an email to the board of trustees today demanding they commit to a rescheduled date instead of a flat cancellation. Tell your classmates to follow this page for updates on our next direct action.

March 26, 2020

The administration is finally noticing the pressure we are building together. Post this link on your Facebook page today and text the link to three friends who graduated in 2020. Email your representative on the school board to demand they commit to a ceremony.

23 Comments

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Alan Blanchard
6 years ago Featured

Give us our graduation and let us walk. This isn't just for us but our families as well, everyone who supported us. We aren't saying we don't care about COVID or the safety of others, we're saying we want what we've been expecting. Make this right and allow us to walk in the future.

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Alicia Carrillo
6 years ago Featured

Some of us are first generation college students and this feels like heart break please let our families be able to experience this moment with us.

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Sommer Ellis
6 years ago Featured

My husband has worked sooo hard for his bachelor's and he deserves to walk across that stage and feel the recognition and pride. PSU seems like they are trying to take the easy way out and please the media. They are not considering what this means to their individual students. I know that with so much unknown, it is hard to plan a ceremony, but to not even try is insulting and heartbreaking. Please just postpone the ceremony. You are taking away a once in a lifetime experience for soooo many people.

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Leona Yazdidoust
6 years ago Featured

Graduation is an important and crucial component of a student’s life. Years of hard work, student loan debt, and mental/emotional struggle will not be satisfied with a “virtual” graduation.

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James McIntyre
6 years ago Featured

My daughter and all of her fellow students have earned the right to celebrate their success when it becomes safe to hold a graduation ceremony, however long it takes to reach that point. Please delay the ceremony until then, but do not cancel it.

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Riley M
6 years ago Featured

Please this is the one thing that has kept me alive through college while beating anorexia, surviving BPD, and struggling through more than this school could even comprehend while making it on the presidents list each term. I need this.

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Abby lindros
6 years ago

Postpone graduation!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Why can't graduation be postponed? Even if it was at the end of the year, I'd rather have one in person than half-assed online.

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