{"id":6426,"date":"2024-05-13T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=6426"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:05:27","slug":"watch-live","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/commencement-2024\/watch-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live | Commencement 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"KeZS9RgNwhE\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Bates College Commencement 2024\" title=\"Bates College Commencement 2024\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for our livestream coverage, beginning at 9:30 a.m., of the 158th Bates College Commencement as we celebrate the accomplishments of the Bates Class of 2024.<br>Mary Louise Kelly, a journalist and co-host of NPR\u2019s All Things Considered and author of It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs, will deliver the Bates College Commencement address<br>Kelly will receive an honorary degree alongside fellow honorands, Richard Blanco, an award-winning author and poet, and Clayton Spencer, a transformative leader in U.S. higher education and Bates&#8217; eighth president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 158th Bates Commencement will be the first for President Garry W. Jenkins, who took office as the college\u2019s ninth president on July 1, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our livestream coverage, beginning at 9:30 a.m., of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":6330,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_page-specific-tagline":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6426\/revisions\/7126"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}