AFTERNOON UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES: Business, Education and Social Sciences & Humanities, Fine Arts and Communications ONLY
12:00 p.m. |
Candidates check-in and pick-up their line cards in the SRFC Fieldhouse, South entrance |
12:45 p.m. |
Procession line-up in the SRFC Fieldhouse. All candidates need to be lined up on their assigned number. |
1:00 p.m. |
Degree ceremony begins |
EVENING UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES: Aviation, Science and Technology & Nursing and Health Sciences ONLY
4:00 p.m. |
Candidates check-in and pick-up their line cards in the SRFC fieldhouse,
South entrance |
4:45 p.m. |
Procession line-up in the SRFC Fieldhouse. All candidates need to be lined up on their assigned number. |
5:00 p.m. |
Degree ceremony begins |
TICKETS
Candidates who have met the eligibility as outline below, can now redeem tickets through the link sent to their Lewis Student Email or at lewisu.marchingorder.com. Candidates should redeem their tickets by Monday, December 11.
Ticket Eligibility
- Have a graduation status of ‘Graduated’ ‘Cleared Except Final Grades' or ‘Cleared for Graduation' on your Degree Works
- No Business Office Holds on your student account. If you resolve a Business Office hold after Monday, November 20 you will need to email registrar@lewisu.edu to be added to the ticket system. Please allow two (2) business days for your information to be added.
General Ticket Information
- Guest tickets are required for the degree ceremony.
- All of your guests, including infants and children, will need a ticket.
- Candidates, who have met ticket eligibility requirements can receive ten guest tickets.
- Candidates do not need a ticket for their assigned ceremony.
- If multiple copies of an E-Ticket are made, the first guest to have it scanned will gain entry. Other copies of the same scanned ticket will be denied entry.
- Candidates can choose to donate their unused tickets to other candidates, with the same assigned ceremony.
Additional Tickets: At this time, due to the large number of initial tickets being provided, we are unable to confirm if additional tickets will be available. Candidates can request to be added to the waitlist for additional tickets when they redeem their initial tickets. Submitting a request for additional tickets does not guarantee the request will be granted. If additional tickets are available and a candidate has met all eligibility criteria, the Office of the Registrar will contact you on Monday, December 04. We will only accept request for additional tickets submitted through the ticket system when students redeem their initial tickets. The deadline to submit request for additional tickets, through the ticketing system by 5p.m. (CST) on Monday, December 04.
COMMENCEMENT PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY
August 2023 graduates and December 2023 candidates who have met all degree requirement or are waiting only for Lewis University Fall semester grades to be posted, are eligible to participate in the degree ceremony. Those with unresolved academic issues may not be able to obtain tickets or participate in the degree ceremony.
A student graduates at the conclusion of the semester in which all degree requirements have been completed. If you anticipate that your requirements will not be completed by the end of this semester, withdraw your application (registrar@lewisu.edu) and apply for a future semester graduation.
December Degree Candidates--This message is not to be misunderstood as a confirmation that degree requirements have been met and the candidate is entitled to graduate; this is solely an invitation to obtain guest tickets. Please continue to monitor your graduation status in your Degree Works page for updates regarding eligibility for graduation.