Graduation

Doors open at 12:15 p.m. Tickets are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets do not guarantee seating after 1 p.m.; please be on time.
Shoes and shirt required!
No food or drinks allowed in Macky Auditorium

Commencement Speaker: Alice Walker
The Color Purple author also known for her activism

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Walker won the Pulitzer Prize, the first for an African-American woman, as well as the National Book Award for her third novel, The Color Purple, which was made into an internationally popular film and is now a Broadway musical. Her other best-selling novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages, include By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Temple of My Familiar. Her most recent fiction work, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart, was published in 2004.

Reception: A reception, with light refreshments, will be held after the commencement ceremony outside Macky Auditorium.

For further information, please contact Sandhya Luther.

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