Commencement Events
Baccalaureate Service
May 8
3:30–4:30 p.m.
The baccalaureate service invites the graduates, families, faculty, and staff to hear a virtual address by the University Chaplain and inspirational words by Nancy Ries, the 2021 recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement and the senior class’s 1819 Award winners, Jake Gómez and William “Paul” McAvoy.
Senior Torchlight Procession
May 8
8:00–9:30 p.m.
First enacted in 1930, under the guidance of the Alumni Association of the University, the Senior Torchlight Procession from the upper campus down to Taylor Lake symbolizes the culmination of the graduates’ four years as students, bringing them both together and out into the world with the “light of knowledge” — as represented by the torch on the University seal.
Commencement Ceremony
May 9
10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
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