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Madera Community College holds its first commencement ceremony

California’s newest in-person community college, Madera Community College, located north of Fresno in the Central Valley, congratulated its first class of graduates this week.

Seventy-seven students walked a socially-distanced commencement state this week at the college, which has operated classes since 1985 but broke away from being a Reedley College satellite campus last summer, becoming California’s 116th community college, the Fresno Bee reports.

The college is awarding 507 degrees and certificates this year. Largely due to the pandemic, however, only about 150 students are planning to participate in graduation events which will span two days. Each graduate could invite three guests and masks were required.

“With everything our family has dealt with, it’s a silver lining,” graduate Heaven Carranza told the Bee about her graduation. “We can have something to celebrate and look forward to.”


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