Spring Commencement 2012

View a live webstream of the Spring 2012 Commencement ceremony starting at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 5.

Tickets are not required for any of Ball State's commencement ceremonies. 

Name cards can be picked up in advance at each college dean's office, in the Commencement Office (Lucina Hall, room B-4), and outside the Office of the Registrar (Lucina Hall, room B-43). Cards will also be available at each college ceremony the day of commencement.

maycommencementThe May Commencement ceremonies honor students who will complete degree requirements at the end of the spring semester 2012.

The ceremony at the Arts Terrace includes a commencement speaker, hooding of honorary doctoral candidates, recognition and hooding of doctoral and specialist in education candidates, recognition of undergraduate honor students, and the conferral of bachelor’s, master’s, and associate degrees by President Jo Ann M. Gora.

After the main ceremony, all graduates will recess and follow their college deans and faculty marshals to their respective ceremony sites, except the College of Applied Sciences and Technology and the College of Fine Arts. Teachers College students will recess out the back of the graduate seating toward the Burkhardt Building and campus drive and line up again near the Arts Terrace site.

Please remember, you must apply to graduate and declare your intent to participate in a ceremony!

(Photo courtesy of Grad Images)

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