Each college and school at Syracuse University will host its own convocation addresses for Class of 2018 graduates. Individual convocation events will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the commencement ceremony for all graduating SU students takes place on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. in the Carrier Dome.

University College

SU’s University College will host its convocation in Hendricks Chapel on Thursday at 6 p.m. A reception will be held at Tent A on the Quad at 7 p.m. Patricia McBride, the University College marshal, will lead the academic procession.

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Maxwell will hold its convocation ceremony for master’s and doctoral degree candidates Friday at 10 a.m. in Hendricks. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held at the Maxwell Hall Patio and Foyer at 11:30 a.m. Jeffrey Gonda, an assistant professor of history and recipient of the 2018 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, will give the keynote speech. Alexander Samuel-Victor Demas will serve as the marshal.

College of Law

The College of Law’s convocation will take place on Friday at 11 a.m. in the Carrier Dome, and the reception will be held in the Levy Atrium in Dineen Hall at 12:30 p.m. Marshal Sarah Wheeler will lead the academic procession.

Preet Bharara, former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, will deliver the College of Law’s commencement address. He was first hired as an U.S. attorney by former President Barack Obama and was fired by President Donald Trump after refusing to resign.

The Renée Crown Honors Program

The honors program convocation will be held in Hendricks at 3 p.m. on Friday.

Graduate School

The graduate school will hold its convocation on Friday at 5 p.m in Goldstein Auditorium. There will be a reception in the Panasci Lounge starting at 6 p.m.

The College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences will hold its convocation for undergraduate students at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday in the Carrier Dome. A reception will be held at 11 a.m. in Maxwell Hall, Eggers Hall and in tents on the Quad. Undergraduate students in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs will be included in the convocation. Zainab Abdali, Ismael M. Gonzalez and Meredith Coccoluto will serve as the marshals for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Convocation for master’s degree candidates will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium. After the ceremony, a reception will be held in the Strassor Commons and Eggers Hall at 3 p.m.

College of Engineering and Computer Science

The College of Engineering and Computer Science will host its undergraduate and graduate convocation in Manley Field House at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. After the ceremony, a reception will be held in the tents at Manley at 10:30 a.m. The marshals will be Charles F. Keppler and Emily Mahana.

School of Architecture

Both the graduate and undergraduate convocations for the School of Architecture will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. in Hendricks. A reception will be held in the Slocum Hall atrium at 10:30 a.m. Reide Elyse McClain and Samuel Dye will serve as the marshals and lead the academic procession.

School of Information Studies

Convocation for bachelor’s degree candidates in the iSchool will start at noon on Saturday in Goldstein Auditorium. Travis Mason, a Class of 2006 graduate, will speak at the ceremony. Mason graduated from Maxwell and is currently the vice president for public policy at Airbus. Kristy Lynn Malley and Stephen Erik Nemy will lead the academic procession as the marshals. A reception will be held in Hinds Hall Lobby at 1:15 p.m.

The convocation ceremony for master’s and doctoral degree candidates will begin at 3 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium on Saturday. The reception will be held after in the Panasci Lounge starting at 4:15 p.m.

School of Education

Both the undergraduate and graduate convocations for the School of Education will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at Manley. A reception will be held at 2:15 p.m. in the tents at Manley. The academic procession will be led by marshals Bari Margolis and Sara Soldovieri.

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

The Newhouse convocation for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates will be held on Saturday in the Carrier Dome at 12:30 p.m. The convocation will be followed by a reception on the Quad at 2:30 p.m.

Ronald B. Saldarini and Kelly Rose Moran will lead the academic procession as the marshals. The convocation speaker will be Jeff Glor, current host of  “CBS Evening News,” who graduated from SU in 1997 with a dual degree in broadcast and digital journalism and economics.

Martin J. Whitman School of Management

Whitman will hold its convocation for graduate students in Goldstein Auditorium at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will be followed by a reception in Whitman at 11 a.m. The undergraduate convocation will take place in the Carrier Dome at 4 p.m. on Saturday. A reception will be held in Whitman at 5:45 p.m. Whitman’s marshals will be Catherine Marsilia Cummings and Juwan Thompson. The pair will speak at the reception along with Patrick Penfield, Whitman’s faculty member of the year.

David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

Falk will hold both its graduate and undergraduate convocations on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at Manley. Stephanie Haber and Crystal Hendriks will serve as the marshals and lead the academic procession.

College of Visual and Performing Arts

PA will host a convocation for both bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Graham Warner, chief operating officer of Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Bank Americas and a Class of 2002 graduate, will speak at the ceremony. Andrés Laguna Martino and LaNia J. Roberts will serve as the marshals. The master’s hooding ceremony will begin on Saturday at 4 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium. The reception for both events will begin at 9 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

SUNY-ESF

SUNY-ESF will host its 2018 commencement at 3 p.m on Saturday in the SRC Arena and Events Center. There will also be curriculum-specific receptions at noon.

Places to be:

Below are times and locations for each convocation ceremony this weekend.

Carrier Dome:

• College of Law – Friday at 11 a.m.
• College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates – Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
• S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
• Whitman School of Management undergraduates – Saturday at 4 p.m.
• College of Visual and Performing Arts undergraduates and graduates – Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
• Syracuse University Commencement 2018 – Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center

• Graduate school – Friday at 5 p.m.
• Whitman School of Management master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Saturday at 9 a.m.
• School of Information Studies undergraduates – Saturday at noon
• School of Information Studies master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Saturday at 3 p.m.

Hendricks Chapel

• University College – Thursday at 6 p.m.
• Maxwell master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Friday at 10 a.m.
• School of Architecture – Saturday at 9 a.m.  

Manley Field House

• College of Engineering and Computer Science bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
• School of Education bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates – Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
• Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral Candidates – Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Setnor Auditorium

• College and Arts and Sciences master’s degree candidates – Saturday at 2 p.m.
• College of Visual and Performing Arts master’s hooding ceremony – Saturday at 4 p.m.

SRC Arena and Events Center

• SUNY-ESF commencement – 3 p.m.

Published on May 7, 2018 at 8:00 am