{"id":30253,"date":"2026-02-24T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30253"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:51:21","slug":"ahs-commencement-student-speaker-auditions-now-being-accepted","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/ahs-commencement-student-speaker-auditions-now-being-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS Commencement student speaker auditions now being accepted"},"template":"","news_categories":[20],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-30253","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-other-opportunities"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p>The AHS Office of the Dean, Student Affairs is now accepting auditions for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/events\/deadline-spring-2026-ahs-commencement-student-speaker-auditions-due\/\">Spring 2026 Commencement student speaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-format-content \">The AHS Spring 2026 Commencement ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm in the Credit Union 1 Arena.\u00a0 Students wishing to submit an audition, should submit an audition video file or link using the form below.\u00a0 Auditions must be submitted by March 16, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speeches that engage and connect with the graduating student population across all AHS undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs are the most well received.\u00a0 Additional details can be found at the following <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.microsoft.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=R80C4lZ6qkuZ4-O3Gnx33cX9h-gpuIlCtNUVP7cxJPpUOTFVU1BSU0ZHT1g2UUs3N1lLU0YyNFZCMy4u&amp;route=shorturl\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.microsoft.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=R80C4lZ6qkuZ4-O3Gnx33cX9h-gpuIlCtNUVP7cxJPpUOTFVU1BSU0ZHT1g2UUs3N1lLU0YyNFZCMy4u&amp;route=shorturl\">AHS Commencement Student Speaker audition<\/a>: (due 3\/15\/2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"text-format-content \">Please contact Eileen Doran (<a class=\"linkified\" href=\"mailto:eileend2@uic.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eileend2@uic.edu<\/a>) if you have specific questions about the speech and\/or audition video.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"_description u-rich-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Eileen Doran","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30262,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30253\/revisions\/30262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}