Within the next week, some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will graduate. There will be two graduation ceremonies to honor those graduates — the graduate degree ceremony and the baccalaureate ceremony.
If graduating students have not picked up regalia, they should go to the University Bookstore on City Campus because they will need it when they arrive at the Bob Devaney Sports Center for graduation, said Jennifer Verhein, an assistant director of registration and records. It's best if students pick up their cap and gown by the day before the graduation ceremony (Aug. 12 for graduate degree commencement and Aug. 13 for the undergraduate ceremony) so they can hang up the gown and let the wrinkles drop, she said. The graduates will be the first to wear a biodegradable gown as part of the university's commitment to sustainability,
Verhein said. Students should arrive on time to be placed in line, Verhein said.
John Hibbing, a Foundation Regents University Professor of political science at UNL, will give an address at the postgraduate ceremony and John Rosenow, founder and president of the Arbor Day Foundation and a UNL graduate, will give the address at the baccalaureate ceremony. If students have any questions, call the graduation service office at 402-472-3636.
WHEN: Aug. 12 at 3 p.m. (graduate degree ceremony); Aug. 13 at 9:30 a.m. (baccalaureate ceremony). Students in the graduate degree ceremony should arrive at the indoor track by 2 p.m. Students in the baccalaureate ceremony should arrive at 8:30 a.m.
WHERE: Bob Devaney Sports Center
HOW MUCH: Free and open to the public, no tickets needed. The ceremonies will be live streamed at the UNL website at www.unl.edu.
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