{"id":297117,"date":"2026-05-02T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:42:25","slug":"class-of-26-graduates-from-oakland-city-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297117\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of \u201826 graduates from Oakland City University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Oakland City University celebrated the graduation of 180 students on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say those students represent 44 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">OCU was chartered by the State of Indiana in 1885, and this was the 131st commencement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his address, OCU President Dr. Ron Dempsey congratulated the graduates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAt OCU, education is never just about knowledge gained or skills acquired\u2014it is about truth discovered, character formed, and lives aligned with the teachings of Jesus Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Five students were honored with the prestigious President\u2019s Award:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Abigail Breanna Vaugh from Lawrenceville, Illinois <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Isabella Catherine Donihue from Huntingburg, Indiana<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Berta Del Hoyo Borrell from Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Macy Ana Knight from Grayville, Illinois<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Samaribr Sing Sidhu, from Mohali, Punjab, India<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The student body voted Ellie Dillow from the School of Arts and Sciences and Dave Wilderman from the School of Business as \u201cProfessors of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The entire ceremony is on the Oakland City University Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/04\/02\/warn-notices-filed-oakland-city-university\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/04\/02\/warn-notices-filed-oakland-city-university\/\">[Related: WARN notices filed for Oakland City University]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"OCU 2026 Graduation\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T7QJH2S74NCKVPZOIL7H7QWGLE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>OCU 2026 Graduation(Oakland City University)<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"OCU 2026 Graduation\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HQM4LSBU6VAXJH2GRESNOFHM3I.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1470\" \/>OCU 2026 Graduation(Oakland City University)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Oakland City University celebrated the graduation of 180 students on Saturday. Officials say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[111020,38954,8600,9520,143,64895,111019,145,144,111018,111021],"class_list":["post-297117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-14-news","tag-commencement","tag-graduation","tag-indiana","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-city","tag-oakland-city-university","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-ocu","tag-wfie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}