Countdown to commencement

April 14, 2021

Carla Browning

The drive-in celebration and graduate car parade will take place Saturday, May 1. Graduates must be signed up and have a ticket to enter. Graduates will begin arriving at 9:30 a.m. for the kickoff celebration at 11 a.m., followed by the graduate parade around campus, which will begin at noon.

Family, friends and the campus community are invited to cheer on graduates from the parade route, and should be in place by 11:45 a.m. A map will be available soon on the commencement website. If you're interested in cheering in a particular area along the parade route, please send an email to the commencement team.

The deadline for participating in the in-person celebration has passed, but all graduates will be included the virtual ceremony that will take place online Saturday, May 1 at 4 p.m. It will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. Please follow the Facebook event for details.

Graduates can customize their slides and should have received an email from StageClip events inviting them to submit their photo, personalized quote (150 characters) and a 10 second video. The deadline for this is April 15. Guidelines for videos are posted online.

Faculty can still submit videos for the gauntlet.

Downloadable graphics including Zoom backgrounds, email signature lines, social media graphics and more are available. UAF Facebook frames are also available to add to your profile picture.

If you have questions, please email uaf-commencement-team@alaska.edu.