{"id":98912,"date":"2026-05-02T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=98912"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:46:28","slug":"ready-for-liftoff-rockets-celebrate-major-milestone-at-spring-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_02_2026\/ready-for-liftoff-rockets-celebrate-major-milestone-at-spring-commencement","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Liftoff, Rockets Celebrate Major Milestone at Spring Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Empowered by their new degrees, thousands of UToledo graduates took a well-deserved victory lap Saturday during a pair of commencement ceremonies inside Savage Arena before writing their first chapters as alumni.<\/p>\n

Derell Bedingfield Jr. leaps into the air in celebration while crossing the stage during Saturday’s commencement ceremony inside Savage Arena. Bedingfield graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication.<\/p>\n

\"Derell<\/p>\n

Jill Kromer, left, and McKenna Nunez share a laugh during Saturday’s commencement ceremony inside Savage Arena. Both graduated with degrees in early childhood education. Kromer is wearing the signature yellow gloves of UToledo mascot Rocksy.<\/p>\n

\"Jill<\/p>\n

Elicia Garces, left, Emily Montaser-Salhi and Olivia Johnson cheer and wave to the crowd during Saturday’s commencement ceremony inside Savage Arena. All three graduated with master of social work degrees.<\/p>\n

\"Elicia<\/p>\n

Brooke Wise smiles as she holds up her diploma cover after crossing the stage during Saturday’s commencement ceremony inside Savage Arena. Wise graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication.<\/p>\n

\"Brooke<\/p>\n

Upcoming Commencements<\/b><\/p>\n

The University of Toledo spring 2026 graduation season continues with two additional ceremonies this month.<\/p>\n

The College of Law commencement is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, May 10, in Thompson Student Union Auditorium.<\/p>\n

The College of Medicine and Life Sciences will hold its ceremony at 2 p.m. Friday, May 15, in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Derell<\/a>

Empowered by their new degrees, thousands of UToledo graduates took a well-deserved victory lap Saturday during a pair of commencement ceremonies inside Savage Arena before writing their first chapters as alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":98913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,32,29,34,35,61,36,498,30,38,39,1,40,41,42,47,62,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98920,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98912\/revisions\/98920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}