CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The Class of 2024 graduating from the University of Virginia this weekend is like no other. This mostly high school Class of 2020, for the most part, celebrated high school graduation, at home online, because of COVID lockdowns that spring. And in a UVA Today video called “A Dream Delayed”, students talked about even their college experience beginning like no other: instead of experiencing Move-In Day, sitting at a computer in their living rooms.
“Classes felt fake first-year, almost, with Zoom,” one student quipped.
Another talks about sneaking into dorm rooms so friends could eat dinner together.
Click here to view the UVA Today video.
The University wants to ensure they have a celebratory ceremony as they graduate from UVA. Festivities start 10 Friday morning with a Multicultural Graduation Ceremony in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom. Joint Commissioning Exercises for Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force candidate happen at noon at the Old Cabell Auditorium. Valedictory Exercises are 3:30pm with Ryan Zimmerman — a former UVA baseball star and Washington Nationals World Series winner as the keynote speaker.
Arts & Sciences, Batten, Education & Human Development Walk the Lawn Saturday morning at 9… and Architecture, Commerce, Continuing & Professional Studies, Darden, Data Science, Engineering & Applied Science, Law, Medicine, Nursing Walk the Lawn same time Sunday.
Longtime Psychology Professor Daniel Willingham will speak Saturday, and outgoing Law School Dean Risa Goluboff will speak Sunday.
Click here for the entire 2024 Final Exercises events and information.
Weather could very well be a factor in plans this weekend. Click here for all information on the Weather Plan. Announcements amending anything Walking the Lawn Saturday and Sunday will be made no later than 5:30am each day on the UVA website homepage; Office of Major Events webpage; the University’s social media accounts on Facebook, X, and Instagram; and via weather phone lines at (434) 924-7669 and (434) 243-7669.
