KU News Release

KU plans recognition ceremonies for fall graduates, ROTC members

LAWRENCE — More than 1,000 University of Kansas students complete degrees during the fall term. Many will be recognized in graduation ceremonies conducted by five of KU's 13 schools.

Students graduating in the fall and summer 2007 terms are members of the Class of 2008 and may participate in the university’s formal commencement on May 18, 2008. KU holds only one formal commencement ceremony each year.

ROTC military units commission graduating seniors as officers twice a year. The commissioning ceremonies are included below with the schools planning December graduate recognition ceremonies.

School of Business — 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, Lied Center
About 220 students will graduate from the School of Business, and about 160 are expected to participate in the recognition ceremony.

School of Engineering — 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
About 100 engineering students plan to graduate this fall.

William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications — 1 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
A reception will follow in the Big 12 Room. About 60 journalism students will graduate.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — 2 p.m., Dec. 9, Lied Center
About 700 graduates from the fall and summer terms will be recognized at the ceremony. About 250 graduating students are expected to attend.

School of Law (hooding ceremony) — 3:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 14, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
A reception will follow in the Big 12 Room for about 30 graduating students.

The Air Force ROTC plans to commission three graduates at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Dole Institute of Politics. At 2 p.m. the same day, the Navy and Marine ROTC units will commission five officers at the Simons Room in the Dole Institute. The Army ROTC plans to commission six graduates at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, in the Military Science Building on campus.

KU’s fall term concludes Friday, Dec. 14. The spring term will begin Jan. 17, 2008.

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