Commencement 2003 schedule announced

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2003

* ROTC commissioning ceremony — 9 a.m.Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

* Graduate school hooding and commencement — 1 p.m.Spectrum (Line up in tunnel at noon)

* Graduation dinner — 6 to 7:45 p.m.Taggart Student Center Ballroom(Tickets required in advance)

* Collage of Sounds concert — 8 p.m.Kent Concert Hall

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2003(Only for undergraduates)

* Academic assembly — 8 a.m.Meet on the Quad in colleges

* Academic procession — 8:30 a.m.Walk to Spectrum

* Commencement ceremony — 9 a.m.Spectrum

* Alumni graduation picnic — 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

* College graduation ceremonies(tentative dates and times)

— noon: College of Agriculture, Kent Concert Hall

College of Education, Spectrum

College of Natural Resources, Morgan Theatre

College of Science, TSC Ballroom

— 2 p.m.:College of HASS, Spectrum

— 4 p.m.College of Business, Spectrum

A graduation rehearsal is scheduled for May 1 at 3 p.m. on the north HPER field.

There will be open seating in the Spectrum for an unlimited number of visitors. A map showing seating arrangements for students will be included in their graduation information.

Each student will walk across the Spectrum stage to receive a personal certificate of commencement in a degree cover. In 2004, students will receive actual degrees on stage.

A line of students on each side of the stage will walk up a side ramp to receive a degree from their college dean. The students will move to the middle of the stage and turn down a center ramp, where they will meet President Kermit L. Hall and Provost Stan Albrecht before returning to their seats.

Names will not be read aloud at commencement, but video footage will be displayed on the overhead scoreboard.

Compiled by Utah State Today