Information for Family and Guests
Commencement is a celebration not only of personal achievement for the graduate but also of the collective effort and support family and friends have given to their graduate along the way. You have played an important role in their success. Thank you for helping make this day possible for your loved one. We look forward to celebrating their 毕业 with you!
毕业典礼门票
Graduates can bring five guests to the ceremony. The college does not issue 毕业 tickets. You must arrive and enter the building with your graduate. Children are included in the five-person limit; however, infants younger than 1 are not.
Family members and friends who cannot attend the ceremony can watch the livestream on the homepage of this microsite.
仪式物流
The ceremonies will be in the Cyclone Center inside the Health, Fitness & 娱乐中心 (Building H) at 11 a.m. 还有3p.m. Your graduate will choose one ceremony to attend. Doors to Building H will open one hour before each ceremony.
You must arrive with your graduate to gain entrance into the building. You then will proceed into the Cyclone Center to find your seats in the bleachers while your graduate checks in. Limited floor seating will be reserved for guests in wheelchairs and their family members. Guests with other physical limitations can sit in reserved seating in the first and second rows of the bleachers on both sides of the gym.
IMPORTANT: Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the ceremony to allow for enough time to find seats. Entrance to the gym will stop when the ceremony begins, and late graduates/guests will wait in the lobby until the national anthem is over. 请不要迟到! 仪式将准时开始.
The ceremony should last about one hour. After the ceremony, graduates will recess out to the parking lot in front of Building H. Guests will be held until all of the graduates have left the gym. You can meet your graduate in the parking lot.
停车
Building H is located on the west side of the Palos Hills campus. 停车 is available in any of the campus parking lots (except for the Building H lot). Signs will direct you to these locations. The lots closest to the ceremony are C1 C2 D3和F.
Handicapped guests can be dropped off at the front door of the Health, Fitness & 娱乐中心. 停车 for handicapped guests is located in the small lot south of Building H, 毗邻建筑.
祝贺你的毕业生
Congratulatory messages to graduates will play on the video screens before the start of each ceremony and will be shared through the college’s social media platforms. You are invited to use the form below to share a free congratulatory message to your graduate.
Please note: Long messages are more difficult to read on the screen due to font size and slide duration. 最好不要超过30个单词. Slides will be monitored for content.
Send Congratulations to Your Graduate
You also can honor and congratulate your graduate with an engraved brick in the college’s Shakespeare Garden. Each brick can include up to three lines of text with 14 characters (including spacing) per line. Bricks are $100 each and can be purchased online at 4499ku.com/buy-a-brick.
问题? 请联系杰西卡·克罗蒂 crotty@4499ku.com.
