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A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. [1] [2] It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called commencement, congregation, convocation or invocation. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called graduation day. Graduates can be referred to by their year of graduation.
As of 2024, [6] each degree candidate attends two ceremonies: the Morning Exercises, at which degrees are conferred verbally en masse; a smaller midday ceremony (at the candidate's professional or graduate school, or undergraduate House) at which diplomas are given in hand.
Portrait of DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale. DeWitt Clinton, a future Governor of New York and presidential candidate was 1786 salutatorian . The 1786 commencement was the university's first commencement after its re-founding as Columbia College following the American Revolution, and was held on April 11 of that year in St. Paul's Chapel.
The parents and students of the class of 2009 in Centerburg, Ohio held their own unofficial graduation ceremony at the local park when the school board decided to cancel the official graduation ceremony, in response to a cheating scandal, [14] even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of ...
The service is held within a couple weeks of the graduation/commencement ceremony, perhaps on a Sunday before, the day preceding, or immediately preceding the graduation. Speakers selected tend to be community leaders, faculty members, students, or local religious leaders, and may be elected by the graduating class.
More than 15,000 UCLA graduates will receive degrees during commencement ceremonies Friday and through the weekend. The graduation events began Thursday evening with academic honors and athletics ...
The graduation ceremony for the first class (numbering five graduates) took place on October 1, 1851, in the old South Congregational Church. [4] Commencements continued to be held off-campus until 1885. No ceremonies were held in 1868 or 1869, as the school's operations had been suspended by state officials.
Graduation season is here, and colleges are first to hit the stage. Here is information on graduations at ACU, HSU and McMurry. What to know about ACU, HSU and McMurry graduate ceremonies