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There will be a new look at commencement.  Stay tuned.  Lise

>Date:	February 25, 1998
>
>To:	Arts and Sciences Chairs and Directors
>
>From:	Peter D. Spear, Dean
>
>Re:	Spring Commencement
>
>As we discussed at the chairs and directors meeting yesterday, the Boulder
>campus spring commencement exercise is being changed to make it a more
>personal experience for both undergraduate and graduate students who are
>graduating.  The central graduation ceremony will be shortened by
>eliminating the part of the ceremony at which graduate students and law
>graduates are called by name.  Each school and college will then hold
>ceremonies at which both undergraduates and graduate students are recognized
>individually and come to the podium to receive congratulations and a diploma
>cover.  The ceremony for graduate students also should include hooding by
>the student�s major professor.
>
>When we discussed this some weeks ago, there was agreement among A&S chairs
>and directors that this would be a positive change for all concerned �
>students, parents, and faculty.  In addition, there was a clear consensus
>that departments and programs would like to have small ceremonies of their
>own rather than for the College to have 3-4 large ceremonies.  Indeed, over
>half of the departments and programs in the College already have such
>ceremonies.  I am now asking that all departments and programs begin to plan
>ceremonies for spring commencement.
>
>The first step is to schedule a time and place.  The central ceremony will
>be on Friday, May 15, at 9:30 a.m.  You should schedule your ceremony around
>that.  You could have it the evening before, immediately after, or later in
>the day on May 15.  We expect that the central ceremony will take about an
>hour.  Therefore, if you plan yours "immediately" afterward, you probably
>should schedule it to start at 11:00 to give people time to get there.
>Please do not schedule your ceremony between 12:00 and 1:30 on May 15.  This
>time has been set aside for the Graduate School to have a reception for
>graduate students and for the students to pick up their diplomas.  If your
>ceremony runs a little past noon, that will be OK because the Graduate
>School reception does not have a program with a discrete start time.  To
>schedule either a room or an outside space, call Verle Plumb in non-academic
>scheduling at 2-8833.
>
>Please coordinate the time of your ceremony with those of related
>interdisciplinary programs (e.g., International Affairs and Environmental
>Studies) so that faculty who are affiliated with a department and an
>interdisciplinary program can attend both ceremonies.  In addition, please
>try not to schedule your ceremony at the same time as departments or
>programs that are a common pairing with yours for students to have as double
>majors.  We�ll send out a list of these later today or early tomorrow.
>
>The campus is preparing a brochure that lists commencement events.  The due
>date for the information is February 27, which is too soon for us to get
>information included (I was just informed of this yesterday!).  Instead, I
>will prepare a sheet that lists all of the College ceremonies, and this will
>be inserted into the brochure and mailed with it to students and parents.
>To be included in this mailing, you must let me know the time and place of
>your ceremony by March 16.  Therefore, please schedule the time and place
>for your ceremony immediately, and email the information to Suzie Chambers
>(suziech@spot.colorado.edu).
>
>As I noted above, a large number of departments and programs in the College
>already have their own commencement ceremonies.  If your unit does not
>already have one, I suggest that you contact the chair or director of a unit
>that does for help in planning your ceremony.  Some of the units that
>already have a ceremony are Communication, English, German and Slavic
>Languages and Literatures, History, Kinesiology, Spanish and Portuguese, and
>Women�s Studies.  Later in the semester, I will schedule part of a chairs
>and directors meeting agenda to have a discussion of commencement ceremony
>planning.
>
>
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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