{"id":5079,"date":"2015-12-02T08:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2015-12-03T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:59:58","slug":"sau-hosts-fall-commencements-dec-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2015\/sau-hosts-fall-commencements-dec-11\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU hosts Fall Commencements Dec. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5081 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SAU Graduation - archive1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Southern Arkansas University is scheduled to recognize 101 graduate students and 143 undergraduates during two Fall Commencement ceremonies at 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday, December 11, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Both ceremonies will take place in the gymnasium at the W.T. Watson Center. The 5 p.m. graduation will include students from the School of Graduate Studies and the Rankin College of Business. The 7 p.m. ceremony will feature students from the College of Education, the College of Liberal and Performing Arts and the College of Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>SAU 2015 Honor Professor Tim Daniels will provide both commencement addresses. Daniels, a 1977 graduate of <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5080 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Daniels-Tim-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Daniels, Tim\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Daniels-Tim-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Daniels-Tim.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SAU, recently retired as associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Biology at SAU. He also served as president of the SAU Faculty Senate.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 30 years, he typically spent two days a week in K-12 public school classrooms delivering model science lessons to teachers and their students. The program has been identified as a National Exemplary Program by the U.S. Department of Education. He has developed more than 50 model lessons for the K-12 sciences. He also provides around 25 days of professional development for K-12 teachers annually, both throughout Arkansas and in neighboring states.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5082 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SAU Graduation - archive2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/SAU-Graduation-archive2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Daniels works with the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock as a curriculum development team leader in science and technology. He is a past science director for the Arkansas Statewide Systematic Initiative of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. He was also hired to write and script AETN\u2019s \u201cMaking the Grade\u201d films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Arkansas University is scheduled to recognize 101 graduate students and 143 undergraduates during two Fall Commencement ceremonies at 5 and 7 p.m. on Friday, December 11, 2015. Both ceremonies will take place in the gymnasium at the W.T. Watson Center. The 5 p.m. graduation will include students from the School of Graduate Studies and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2015\/sau-hosts-fall-commencements-dec-11\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":5081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}