As the pandemic eases, USC announced Thursday it would hold in-person commencement ceremonies this spring for the classes of 2020 and 2021, allowing students to celebrate this joyful rite-of-passage in classic fashion. “After all this time, we will finally be together again,” USC President Carol L. Folt tweeted in announcing the news. “But I’m not going to be excited until the actual graduation when I’m with my family and everybody.”USC is among the first California universities to announce in-person ceremonies this spring. The cancellation of in-person commencement ceremonies at most universities last year devastated students, who felt robbed of the joyous capstone to their college journeys. At USC, for instance, hundreds of staff pulled off a complex virtual celebration after just three weeks of planning.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 19, 2021 00:25 UTC