Friday, May 2, 2025
Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, Avrum Gudelsky Auditorium
- Check In: 3:00 p.m. at the Library. Please bring your regalia.
- Doctoral Hooding Ceremony: 4:00 p.m. Due to available space in the Auditorium, a maximum of 3 guests is allowed.
Graduating Student & Alumni Reception (for All Graduates and Alumni), McGowan Academic Center
- 5:30 p.m. Bring your guests and join your classmates, faculty, staff, and fellow alumni for refreshments, fun, and conversation in celebration of your distinct and well-deserved accomplishments.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Commencement Ceremony for All Graduates
- Check In: 8:00 a.m. It is imperative that graduates arrive on time to check in. Be sure to bring your regalia. Check-in is located in the Avrum Gudelsky Auditorium. Once you have checked in, you must remain in the auditorium. During check-in you will receive your name card used to announce you on stage. Please verify your information is correct on this card. Do not lose this card. You will hand it to the stage staff as you step on-stage during commencement.
- Processional Preparation: 8:30 a.m. This time will be used to ensure your cap, gown and hood are fitted properly.
- Roll Call and Lineup: 9:30 a.m. This will occur in the auditorium. Weather permitting, the lineup will be outside of the building. You will be lined up alphabetically by degree program.
- Processional Begins: 9:45 a.m. The university marshal will lead the processional followed by the stage guests, trustees, faculty, candidates for undergraduate degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees, to the commencement tent. For the recessional back to the front of the university, the stage participants will exit first, and the graduates will follow them.