Commencement Timeline

JANUARY

• Make reservations for air, hotel, and car
• Commencement Information packets mailed
• Buy brunch tickets
• Reserve seats at the Baccalaureate Dinner
• Order Commencement DVD

FEBRUARY

• Verify your information for printing in the Commencement program
• Grad Fair: February 19-21, outside the Bookstore
• Order class rings
• Order graduation announcements

APRIL

• Get a ticket for the Senior Breakfast at HSH 100 (213-740-5693)
• Participate in the Senior Class Gift
• April 30: Regalia available at the Bookstore

Click here for a list of academic regalia colors

MAY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14

• Senior Breakfast
  8:30 a.m.
  Parkside Restaurant
  (213) 740-5693
• Phi Kappa Phi Initiation Ceremony
  1:30 p.m.
  Bing Theater
  (213) 740-1143

THURSDAY, MAY 15

• The Graduate School Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony
  9:30 a.m.
  Bovard Auditorium
  (213) 740-9033


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


• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  5:00 p.m.
  Bovard Auditorium
  (213) 740-6110


• Baccalaureate Dinner
  6:30 p.m.
  Pardee Way
  (213) 740-6786
  


• African American Cultural Celebration
  8:00 p.m.
  Bovard Auditorium
  (213) 740-8257
  www.usc.edu/cbcsa
  
  
• Asian Pacific Graduate Celebration
  8:00 p.m.
  Lawn south of Watt Hall
  (near the Fisher Museum)
  alumni.usc.edu/apaa/grad2008
  
  
• Chicano/Latino Celebration
  8:00 p.m.
  Howard Jones Field
  (213) 740-1480
  www.usc.edu/student-affairs/elcentro

FRIDAY, MAY 16 - Main Commencement Ceremony

• Processional Line-up
  8:00 a.m.
  All undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree candidates;
  Ph.D. candidates only will assemble in Bovard Auditorium.
  
• Processional Begins
  8:30 a.m.
  
• Main Commencement Ceremony
  9:00 a.m.
  Alumni Memorial Park
  
• 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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