Commencement Timeline

January

• Make reservations for air, hotel, and car.

February

• Commencement Information packets mailed
• Grad Fair: February 14-16, outside the Bookstore
• Order class rings
• Check name at degree progress
• Order graduation announcements

March

• Order Commencement DVD

April

• April 26: Regalia available at the Bookstore

Wednesday, May 10

• Phi Kappa Phi Initiation Ceremony
  1:30 p.m.
  Bing Theater
  (213) 740-1143

Thursday, May 11

• Doctoral Hooding ceremonies
  
• Senior and Graduate Recognition Awards Ceremony
  1:00 p.m.
  Bovard Auditorium
  (213) 740-5693



• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  5:00 p.m.
  Bovard Auditorium



• Baccalaureate Dinner
  6:30 p.m.
  Pardee Way
  SOLD OUT



• Black Graduation Celebration
  8:00 p.m.
  Bovard Auditorium
  (213) 740-8257
  
  
• Chicano/Latino Graduation Celebration
  8:00 p.m.
  Howard Jones Field
  (213) 740-1480

Friday, May 12
Main Commencement Ceremony

• Processional Line-up
  8:00 a.m.
  All undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree candidates
  
  Click here for a listing of all assembly (line up) points
  
  Click here for a map of assembly points
  
  
• Processional Begins
  8:30 a.m.
  
• Main Commencement Ceremony
  9:00 a.m.
  Alumni Memorial Park
  Click here for seating chart
  
• Main Commencement Ceremony Ends
  10:10 a.m.
  Graduates process to Satellite Ceremonies
  Click here for satellite ceremonies 

Alumni Association

Visit the Widney Alumni House on Commencement Day for more information about your free membership in the USC Alumni Association.

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