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Many U.S. graduations are curtailed again, but some commencements will go on without guests.

NY Times | June 6, 2021

Related Topics: Yale University, Northeastern University, Lawrence S. Bacow, Ruth Simmons, Tampa, New York University, University of South Florida, Princeton University, Columbia University

Yale plans to hold a version of in-person graduation for the class of 2021 in May — with no guests allowed. Harvard is not even calling its commencement a “commencement.” It plans to hold virtual degree-granting ceremonies and, for the second year in a row, will postpone traditional festivities.

The universities of South Florida, Southern California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, Rochester and Kentucky, among others, are holding in-person commencements, but with differing rules about guests.

So it goes in this second graduation season of the pandemic.

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