{"id":8085,"date":"2019-07-01T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:05:26","slug":"cap-and-gone-840-students-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/cap-and-gone-840-students-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap and Gone!: 840 students graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Echo staff report<\/p>\n<p>Rochester Community and Technical College celebrated its 103rd annual commencement ceremony on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 840 graduates, 143 students received high honors with a grade-point average of 3.75 or above. Another 134 students graduated with honors with a GPA of 3.5 to 3.749.<\/p>\n<p>Armin Budimlic, executive director of the Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association, was the keynote speaker. Budimlic, who emigrated from Bosnia Herzegovina in 1994, is a graduate of RCTC, Winona State University and St. Mary\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-8062 .fg-image { width: 640px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-no-js\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-8062\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;src&quot;,&quot;srcset&quot;:&quot;srcset&quot;,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true,&quot;autoplay&quot;:0}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Cover-photo-adjusted-e1759258131824.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" data-attachment-id=\"8064\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2019\/07\/Cover-photo-adjusted-e1759258131824\/490025983.jpg\" alt=\"RCTC grad celebrating\" title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure 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href=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_4738-e1759258308762.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" data-attachment-id=\"8070\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2019\/07\/DSC_4738-e1759258308762\/1911717016.jpg\" alt=\"RCTC graduate\" title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_4919-e1759258224723.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" data-attachment-id=\"8071\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2019\/07\/DSC_4919-e1759258224723\/154405285.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling RCTC graduates\" title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_4934-e1759258156927.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" data-attachment-id=\"8074\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2019\/07\/DSC_4934-e1759258156927\/2144684504.jpg\" alt=\"RCTC Commencement\" title=\"Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Photos courtesy of College Relations and Marketing<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-loading\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a 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Of the 840 graduates, 143 students received high honors with a grade-point average of 3.75 or above. Another 134 students graduated with honors with a GPA of 3.5 to 3.749. Armin Budimlic, executive director of the Intercultural Mutual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}