Difference between revisions of "Commencement"

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*School Awards Ceremonies
  
 
While the schools and degree programs hold their own recogniztion ceremonies throughout the week, [[University Commencement]] is the official day of graduation for all Columbia students, as it's when degrees are officially conferred (even if you get the actual [[Diploma|diplomas]] on a different day of the week).
 
While the schools and degree programs hold their own recogniztion ceremonies throughout the week, [[University Commencement]] is the official day of graduation for all Columbia students, as it's when degrees are officially conferred (even if you get the actual [[Diploma|diplomas]] on a different day of the week).

Revision as of 11:39, 17 April 2007

The bitter end, the big sleep, it all ends in tears... Commencement is catch-all term for various ceremonies at which degrees are conferred, names are read, and proud parents get to take pictures. Also known as graduation.

Commencement Week consists of a series of events:

While the schools and degree programs hold their own recogniztion ceremonies throughout the week, University Commencement is the official day of graduation for all Columbia students, as it's when degrees are officially conferred (even if you get the actual diplomas on a different day of the week).

The first commencement exercises were held in 1758, which would make the 2007 Commencement the 250th. However the University likes to "count" the exercises that weren't held from 1755-1757 (no one graduated until 4 years after the school opened, duh.) Nor do they count the fact that no one graduated between 1778, when King's College closed as a result of the Revolutionary War and 1787, when DeWitt Clinton became Columbia College's first graduate (and transfer student). So we're up to 253 for some reason.


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