{"id":249164,"date":"2026-04-28T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:23:15","slug":"fsu-175-how-commencement-connects-generations-at-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249164\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU\u00a0175:\u00a0How commencement connects generations at Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More recently, in 2024, former Seminoles quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and NBA player Charlie Ward returned to campus to address summer graduates, encouraging them to approach life with discipline, preparation and thoughtful decision-making.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Florida State has also welcomed\u00a0current\u00a0members of its Board of Trustees to the commencement stage, including Chair Peter Collins, Vice Chair Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz, Brian\u00a0Murphy\u00a0and Jim Henderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> A tradition that continues\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Commencement ceremonies today are major university events, held at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Doctoral hooding ceremonies have grown alongside FSU\u2019s expanding research mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Florida State has also invited its Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor \u2014 recipient of the university\u2019s highest faculty honor \u2014 to address graduates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More recently, in 2024, former Seminoles quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and NBA player Charlie Ward returned to campus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40841,63042,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-249164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-commencement","tag-fsu-175","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}