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The University of Vermont will celebrate its 215th commencement on Sunday, May 22. The main commencement ceremony and the College of Arts and Sciences ceremony will take place outdoors on the University Green. Graduates and guests are urged to dress appropriately for the weather. The main ceremony begins with the procession at 8:20 a.m. Tickets are not required for these ceremonies.

The Graduate College commencement ceremony, where master and doctoral students will be hooded and presented with their diploma, will take place on Saturday, May 21, in the Multipurpose Facility in the Athletic Complex at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are not required for this ceremony.

The College of Medicine commencement ceremony, where graduates will take their professional oath, will take place on Sunday, May 22 in Ira Allen Chapel at 3 p.m. This ceremony is ticketed.

A recognition ceremony for Honors College scholars will take place on Saturday, May 21 at 3:30 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel.

Individual college/school undergraduate ceremonies, where degree candidates will receive their diplomas, will take place throughout the day on Sunday, May 22.  View the full commencement weekend schedule, and learn more about ticketing for each of the ceremonies

The main ceremony and each college’s ceremony will be webcast live on the following website: http://live.vpt.org/uvm/uvm.html.

This year, President Tom Sullivan will confer degrees on an estimated 2,937 graduates, including 2,329 bachelors, 388 masters, 114 doctoral, and 106 medical (M.D.) degree recipients. Among expected degree recipients are students from 41 states and 100 international students from 22 foreign countries. Approximately 1,045 graduates are from Vermont. The graduating class includes an expected 294 African, Latino/a, Asian and Native American (ALANA) and bi/multi-racial students.

Gail Sheehy, UVM Class of 1958, and world-renowned author, journalist and lecturer, will deliver the commencement address at the Main Ceremony and be presented with an honorary doctor of letters degree. Her extensive body of work includes 17 books and hundreds of magazine articles. She is a founding writer of New York magazine, where she was one of a tight cadre of literary colleagues including Tom Wolfe, Gloria Steinem, Nora Ephron and Clay Felker, developing a style of narrative journalism that brought a compelling personal voice to investigative reporting. From her first major assignment traveling with Robert Kennedy in his campaign for the 1968 Democratic nomination, her fearless, exploratory style offered her entrance to the center of her subjects’ milieu. She dispatched reports from inside the radical leftist movement at Columbia University, from the internal trials of the Black Panthers, from violent prostitution rings in New York City and from the frontlines of the civil conflicts in Northern Ireland. Later, as a biographer, interviewer, and profiler of world leaders, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, her work made a great impact on the public’s understanding of what shapes world events and the people behind them. Her seminal book exploring the rhythms and evolutions of adult life, Passages (1976), remained a New York Times bestselling book for three years and was recently named by the Library of Congress as one of the 10 most influential books of our time. 


Six others will receive honorary degrees at the ceremony: Paul Bruhn, Richard Erdman, Jaime Laredo, Dr. William (Bill) Luginbuhl and Viola (Vi) Luginbuhl, and William Ruprecht. Learn more about these recipients.

The following street closings are planned in conjunction with commencement: from Friday, May 20, at 7 p.m. through Sunday, May 22, at 8 p.m., University Place will be closed from Colchester Avenue to Main Street, and South Prospect Street will be closed from College Street to the University Health Center entrance. In addition, on Sunday, May 22 from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., South Prospect Street will be closed from Colchester Avenue to Main Street, and College Street will be closed from South Prospect Street to South Williams Street.  In addition, the northernmost west-bound lane on Main Street from University Heights to South Prospect Street will be closed from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Shuttle buses will run between ceremony sites and parking areas. A parking map is available on the commencement 2016 website. Guests are encouraged to carpool when possible and take shuttles from hotels when provided. Parking on residential streets is prohibited.



More information about commencement weekend is available on the commencement 2016 website: www.uvm.edu/commencement.

PUBLISHED

05-20-2016
University Communications