Yale will transform students into alumni for the 307th time during Commencement
weekend Saturday-Monday, May 24-26.
T H I S
The weekend includes a variety of activities, including social events, performances
and traditional ceremonies.
The formal festivities will begin with the Baccalaureate service for Yale College
seniors and their families in Woolsey Hall, northwest corner of Grove and College
streets. The ceremony — which features addresses by President Richard C.
Levin and Yale College Dean Peter Salovey — will take place on Saturday
at 2:30 p.m., and on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Also on Saturday, there will be a reception for graduating students and their
families from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the President’s House, 43 Hillhouse Ave.
(or at University Commons, if it rains).
Class Day exercises for graduating Yale College seniors will take place at 2
p.m. on Sunday on Old Campus. At press time, the featured speaker had yet to
be announced. The event will be broadcast live on local access cable channel
26.
University Commencement will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, when Yale College seniors
process around the New Haven Green and onto Old Campus. The formal ceremony includes
the presentation of honorary degrees to noted individuals and the awarding of
degrees to students representing Yale’s undergraduate, graduate and professional
schools; it will begin at 10:30 a.m. This event will also be broadcast live on
local access cable channel 26.
Individual degree-granting ceremonies will follow in the residential colleges
for Yale College seniors and at special ceremonies for Yale’s graduate
and professional students.
For information about those ceremonies and the many other activities that weekend,
visit www.yale.edu/commencement/html/schedule.html.
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