"… ‘All my hard work went to nothing,’ said Franco Valiente, a fourth-year at UC Berkeley. ‘Studying computer science for four years — everything builds up to this moment [graduation]. Now, it’s all gone.’
For Aamir Singh, a first-generation college student at New York University, he told The College Fix he is incredibly disheartened that he will not be able to graduate at Yankee Stadium in May.
‘My family and grandparents were scheduled to come to New York to see me, the first in my family, graduate college,’ Singh said. ‘Now, we’ll never know when or even if graduation is actually happening or not.’
New York University’s President Andrew Hamilton expressed regret over postponing the annual ceremony.
‘Given the advice of public health officials, as well as the restrictions put in place by city and state authorities, and out of our own sense of obligation to safeguard the safety of our community, it is impossible to imagine we could or should hold such large assemblies this spring,’ Hamilton stated.
Most universities nationwide have either moved their spring graduation ceremonies online, postponed them until further notice, or cancelled them entirely, effecting approximately 2 million undergrads, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics." …