{"id":145061,"date":"2025-05-20T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=145061"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:06:31","slug":"cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A very happy graduation for the Class of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of students graduated to their next adventure on Sunday, as they received their degrees from 51ÁÔÆæ and began looking forward to their next journey.<\/p>\n<p>The graduating Class of 2025 gathered with family and friends at the 51ÁÔÆæ Panther Arena to celebrate all their accomplishments and look ahead to what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the material below to experience some of the joy of commencement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/gallery\/uwm-2025-graduates-let-the-celebration-begin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a photo gallery<\/a> celebrating graduates.<\/li>\n<li>Watch a video <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/video\/uwm-class-of-2025-makes-its-mark\/\">focusing on a few standout graduates<\/a> who share some memories and advice.<\/li>\n<li>Check out a photo gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-students-jump-start-careers-before-graduation\/\">featuring several students<\/a> who landed full-time jobs even before graduation.<\/li>\n<li>Relive the day with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/streamingvideo\/commencements\/\">streaming video<\/a> of both the black and gold ceremonies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of 51ÁÔÆæ students received diplomas on Sunday at the 51ÁÔÆæ Panther Arena, marking the end of one journey and the start of another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3151,"featured_media":145108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"section":[122,126],"display_categories":[352,116],"related-coverage":[261],"uwmnews-feed":[167],"class_list":["post-145061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","section-campus-community","section-campus-news","display_categories-top-story-tertiary","display_categories-top-story-section","related-coverage-graduation","uwmnews-feed-alumni-association"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A very happy graduation for the Class of 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thousands of 51ÁÔÆæ students received diplomas on Sunday at the 51ÁÔÆæ Panther Arena, marking the end of one journey and the start of another.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023-2-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A very happy graduation for the Class of 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thousands of 51ÁÔÆæ students received diplomas on Sunday at the 51ÁÔÆæ Panther Arena, marking the end of one journey and the start of another.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/cheers-to-all-celebrating-spring-graduation-2023-2-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"51ÁÔÆæ REPORT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-20T20:32:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-28T15:06:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/05\/20250518_EH_IMC_MG_3256-copy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John G. 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