For the first time in two years, San Jose State resumes in-person commencement ceremonies

There was good reason to fling mortarboards in the air Tuesday.

For the first time since 2019, San Jose State University celebrated recent graduates with the resumption of in-person commencement ceremonies.

This week, the university is hosting 13 graduation events in the Provident Credit Union Event Center on campus — with COVID-19 protocols in effect. About 1,830 students from the class of 2020 and 3,640 from the spring, summer and fall classes of 2021 registered to attend in person and are allowed to bring along with them a limited number of guests.

Spartan alumni, members of the public and graduates not able to be on campus this week may watch the festivities online via the livestream at www.sjsu.edu/commencement/graduates-1.

Here’s the schedule:

On Tuesday, the class of 2020 and spring/summer 2021 graduates were honored, with more ceremonies to come Friday for those grads. The spring/summer 2021 events will be held at 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day. The class of 2020 events will be held at noon and 7:30 p.m.

On Wednesday and Thursday, ceremonies for fall 2021 graduates will be held based on the traditional college-by-college format, starting with the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at 2 p.m., and then at 7 p.m., the Connie L. Lurie College of Education, the College of Humanities and the Arts and the College of Professional and Global Education.

Thursday’s commencement will begin at 9:30 a.m. with the College of Science and the College of Health and Human Sciences, followed at 2 p.m. by the College of Social Sciences.