{"id":3128,"date":"2022-04-26T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2023-04-03T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:35:06","slug":"commencement-honorands-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/2022\/04\/26\/commencement-honorands-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement honorands announced for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello, Bates Class of 2022 Families &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are excited to let you know that Bates has just announced the 2022 honorand class!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following individuals will receive honorary degrees from Bates on Sunday, May 29 at the Class of 2022\u2019s Commencement ceremony:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Bonney\">Michael Bonney<\/a> \u201980, biotechnology leader, Bates alumnus, and longtime Bates Trustee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikki_Giovanni\">Nikki Giovanni<\/a>, acclaimed poet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nirav_D._Shah\">Nirav Shah<\/a>, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Becca_Stevens_(priest)\">Becca Stevens<\/a>, author, Episcopal priest, and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/thistlefarms.org\/\">Thistle Farms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Shah will serve as our Commencement speaker. The Class of 2022 senior speaker has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We encourage you to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/dr-nirav-shah-bates-commencement-2022-speaker-honorands-michael-bonney-nikki-giovanni-rev-becca-stevens\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the&nbsp;Bates News piece about this year&#8217;s&nbsp;honorands<\/a>, and we look forward to sharing more details as May 29 approaches. Remember that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/\">Commencement site <\/a>is an excellent resource that is frequently updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With best regards,<br>The Bates Parent Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Bates Class of 2022 Families &#8211; We are excited to let&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"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":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-of-2022-families","category-email-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}