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Baccalaureate service. St. Thomas of Villanova Church during the 2008 Villanova University Baccalaureate. A baccalaureate service (or baccalaureate Mass) is a celebration that honors a graduating class from a college, high school, or middle school. The event is typically a Christianity -based interdenominational (ecumenical) service, though it ...
Look up convocation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A convocation (from the Latin convocare meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic. The Britanica dictionary defines it as "a large formal meeting ...
Graduation. 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 .
Aniyah Malone displays her diploma during the Everett High School graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Breslin Center on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing.
For the first time since 2019, all six Las Cruces Public Schools high schools will host graduation ceremonies at the Pan American Center on the New Mexico State University campus.
Jenn Wilson, a communications coordinator at Louisville High School in Ohio, came up with the idea. The video enlisted current kindergarteners (the class of 2036) as well as the class of 2024.
The commencement is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred upon graduating students. A commencement speech is typically given by a notable figure in the community or a graduating student. The person giving such a speech is known as a commencement speaker. Very commonly, colleges or universities will invite politicians, important ...
Valedictorian ( VD) is an academic title for the highest-performing student of a graduating class of an academic institution. The valedictorian is generally determined by an academic institution's grade point average (GPA) system but other methods of selection may be factored in such as volunteer work, scholastic awards, research, and extra ...