Your College Graduation Experience

Congratulations New College Seniors! 

University Commencement Ceremonies

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** TWO COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES **

• No tickets are required.
• All graduates and their family are welcome to attend.
• All candidates are required to wear an official ASU cap and gown.
  These are available at the ASU bookstore (602) 543-6800.
• All graduates will need to check in one hour before the ceremony begins
• Commencement Website and Information: http://www.asu.edu/graduation

Commencement Program Goes Digital

The Office of University Ceremonies has made the transition to providing student graduates with a digital commencement program on a flash drive at the Convocation ceremonies.  A final printed program with graduate names will be mailed to each graduate along with their diploma following conferring of degrees.  A day-of ceremonies program will be printed and distributed for the ceremonies (this program will not include graduates names).

“As a university with a demonstrated dedication to efficiency, technology and sustainability, ASU has decided to make the fall 2012 commencement program available to graduates on a reusable external drive,” said Melissa Werner, director of University Ceremonies. “This change aligns with our growing “green” efforts as an institution and our broader efforts to employ technology in heightened service to our students.

Full Announcement:  http://graduation.asu.edu/announcements/3-1

Ride the Motor Coach to Undergraduate Commencement!

 ASU New College Graduates and their Families are invited to board a motor coach at the West campus for travel to:

ASU Undergraduate Commencement in Tempe, Sun Devil Stadium.

Reservations for the coach need to be made by Wednesday May 1.  Tickets will be available for pick up in the New College VP/Dean's office, FAB N303 Wednesday, May 1 - Friday, May 3 from 9am - 5pm.  All tickets must be picked up during this time.  Coach will leave the West campus at 5:30pm  and will return to the West campus 30 minutes following the conclusion of the Commencement ceremony. 

TICKETS ARE FREE, BUT REQUIRED TO RIDE THE MOTOR COACHES

West campus has chartered motor coaches to transport students and members of their family to and from Commencement in Tempe for the Undergraduate Ceremony on Thursday, May 9, 2013.  This service is free, but you must....

RSVP and PICK UP YOUR MOTOR COACH TICKETS IN THE DEANS OFFICE - FAB N303

For questions regarding the motor coach please call 602-543-4521.

NEW COLLEGE CONVOCATION

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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Time 8:00a.m.*

The Quad, ASU’s West campus
4701 West Thunderbird Road
Glendale, AZ 85306

*This is the correct time for the ceremony for New College, Herff Jones is

working to correct their site as is the ASU Graduation page. 

New College is the home to the:

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences awarding degrees in:

• Communication
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Sociology

School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies awarding degrees in:

• American Studies
• Applied Science
• Documentary Studies
• English
• Ethnicity, Race and First Nations Studies
• History
• Integrative Studies
• Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance
• Peace Studies
• Religion & Applied Ethics Studies
• Southwest Studies
• Spanish
• Women and Gender Studies

School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences awarding degrees in:

• Applied Computing
• Applied Mathematics
• Cell and Molecular Biology Research
• Life Sciences, B.S., and B.A.
• Life Sciences, Environmental Science Concentration
• Life Sciences, Forensics Concentration
• Mathematics Concentration in Secondary Education
• Statistics B. S.

New College Convocation is held outdoors on the the Quad, rain or shine, please dress for the weather and plan accordingly.

Convocation Website and Information: http://www.asu.edu/graduation

Parking at West campus for Convocation:

Please plan on entering the West campus from 43rd Avenue and Joan de Arc or 51st Avenue and Wood Drive.  Parking will be available in the South Zone and Golf carts will be running from the lots for guests who require assistance.  http://www.asu.edu/parking/maps/west-current.pdf

New College Convocation

Thursday, May 9, 2013  Time:  8:00 a.m.
The Quad, West Campus

Graduate Day of Activities

• You must arrive by 7:00a.m.  to check in at La Sala in the UCB.
• Caps and gowns are worn at Commencement and Convocation and can be purchased along with your  college tassel at the ASU Bookstore.  Any academic honors cords may be worn over  
  the graduation gown. Extra honors cords and tassels will not be available at the ceremony, pick them up at the registrar’s office anytime prior to the ceremony.
• Upon check-in, you will be given your name card with the information you provided to us during your online RSVP.  You will give this card to the Faculty Marshal who will read your name as you cross the stage.
• After check-in, you will be instructed where to line up in the ballrooms according to your School.
• Faculty and staff members will lead you through the Paley Gates and to the platform area on the Fletcher Library lawn for the ceremony.
• AS A UNIVERSITY TRADITION TOUCH THE PALEY GATES AS YOU PROCESS THROUGH.
• A staff member will notify the graduates when to line up by the stage.
• Each graduate will walk up to the stage and present the name card to the Faculty Marshal, receive the diploma cover, shake hands with the Dean and others (with the right hand), and cross the stage. Return to your seat.
• If you are in need of additional assistance, please contact Heidi Maxwell, 602-543-4521 or heidi.maxwell@asu.edu.

 Guests

• No tickets are required for graduates or their guests.
• Photos will be taken at the ceremony.
• The Convocation ceremony will end at approximately 90 minutes from the beginning.
• Please make arrangements with your graduate to meet at a designated spot following the ceremony; a complimentary cookie and refreshment reception will be held in the center courtyard.
• Due to limited parking, carpooling is recommended. Please enter the campus from the 43^rd Ave entrance or the 51^st Ave entrance, Parking is available in the south parking lots. Parking attendants will help you park and golf carts will be available to transport those who indicate they need assistance. If you or your guest(s) require special accommodations, please contact 602-543-4521 or Heidi.Maxwell@asu.edu by Friday, May, 3, 2013
• Ceremony will be held outdoors (rain, shine or temperature), please dress according to the weather.
• Starbucks, located inside the Fletcher Library will be open at 7:00am
• The POD convenience store will be open at 6:00am inside the Verde Dining Hall.

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Touch of University

a word to graduates provided by the Barrett Honors College

As you walk through the Paley Gates at Convocation, it is tradition to reach out and touch the gates, placing your hand on them as a catalyst for reflection.

Reaching out thus, you are asked to reflect on how ASU has touched you during your studies here. No doubt university work demanded much of you, touching your heart and mind in many powerful ways, in many unexpected ways, perhaps.

Regardless of your area of study, your experience at ASU made demands that you be rigorous, that you be insightful, and that you be perceptive. Indeed, as Socrates says at the end of Plato’s famous allegory of the cave, education is the “art of orientation.” ASU has equipped you with the means by which you now know how to turn your critical attention, that is, how to orient yourselves, toward what is most pressing in our world today and which calls for our being responsible for and responsive to it.

And this is as it should be. Universities are meant to touch you in these ways so that your having been here makes a promise to the larger culture concerning your participation in the life of our city, the enterprise of our state, and the hopes for our cosmopolitan future. You are now in a position to understand better that you can be in your own activities and excellence become co-creators of what is to come next.

Here at ASU you have been a part of a community of scholars and you have engaged in the conversations, studies, and activities of research that are becoming such a community. We are hopeful that your time here has left you with the three qualifications for public life that the Czech philosopher Vaclav Havel deems necessary viz., tact, good taste, and the proper instincts.

Education habituates us to these three traits. It allows us to read situations in which we find ourselves, develop the proper tests and programs fitting to our collective circumstances, and allows us to investigate with care and understanding the world around us. 

Today you leave the university and the community of scholars who have touched you and you do so that you may enter community of critical citizenship. Your responsibility, in turn, is to touch with your education everything with which you come into contact. You must leave a mark of excellence on the larger cultural matrix of which universities are but one, albeit vital, part. 

Leave a touch of your education with each person with whom you encounter in the following years. Education is not a finite quantity; sharing it does not and cannot diminish it, rather the opposite is true: each sharing with another adds to what you already have. From among the many, two examples show what you must do: Invent new and progressive ways to touch others and imagine the ways you can cultivate the relations necessary to improve yourself and all those around you. 

The Paley Gates at ASU’s West campus will continue to be here, standing as a symbol for the next generation of students. As well, the faculty will be here making certain that the community of scholars is vibrant, welcoming, and awaiting all those who will wish, as you did, to be touched by education.

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Senior Meeting

Information on Convocation, Senior Gift, Alumni Experience & CAreer Connections

New for the Class of 2013.  the opportunity to leave a legacy to New College.  Please visit:  https://newcollege.asu.edu/senior-gift  for information on the New College Class of 2013 Senior gift.

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University Commencement

Graduate Commencement - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:30a.m.
Wells Fargo Arena, Tempe 
Undergraduate Commencement - Thursday, May 9, 2013 7:30p.m.
Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe 
http://www.asu.edu/graduation
 

Graduates and families traveling from the West Valley to Undergraduate Commencement in Tempe are invited to ride a chartered motor coach from ASU's West Campus to the Wells Fargo Arena.

YOU MUST RSVP AND PICK UP TICKETS FROM THE DEANS OFFICE (FAB N303) IN ORDER TO RIDE THE MOTOR COACH.

Motor Coach Departure Times:

Undergraduate Commencement – 5:30p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013 - Motor Coach Boarding, University Way on the West campus - 
5:30p.m. DEPARTURE

ADDITIONAL CONVOCATION CEREMONIES
 

Go to http://graduation.asu.edu/ceremonies/spring

ADDRESS QUESTIONS TO:

• West campus Registrar’s Office: 602-543-8203
• West campus New College Ceremony Office: 602-543-4521
• Tempe campus Ceremony Office: 480-965-3565

REGALIA

Graduate Regalia can be ordered during the Grad Fair at the ASU Bookstore.  March 28, 11am - 5pm, and March 29, 11am - 2pm.
 

GRADUATION APPLICATION DEADLINE IS February 15, 2013  back to top

Your name may not be included in the Commencement program if you apply after February 15, 2013, and late fees will be included.

You will receive the Commencement/Convocation link on your MyASU account once you Apply for Graduation.  You will receive Graduation updates through this link.  You Must Apply for Graduation http://graduation.asu.edu/graduates/apply/

You must RSVP for the ceremonies via your MyASU link.

GRAD FAIR, week of March 28, 11am - 5pm and March 29, 11am - 2pm

West campus Grad Fair will be held at the ASU West campus Bookstore.  This is where you will order your cap and gown, get announcements, diploma frames and ASU Class Rings!  Many packages to choose from, become a Lifetime Alumni Association member and get your graduation regalia FREE!  Discounts will be offered only at Grad Fair!  Save the Date to attend Grad Fair at the ASU Bookstore on the West campus