Please find the first draft of the May 2024 Commencement Program here: May 2024 Commencement Program - First Draft
Submit all changes to registrar@drake.edu by email by 12 PM (noon) on Friday, April 5th, 2024.
Instructions for making updates:
1. Printed Name (you can use Ctrl+F to find your name)
2. Degree & Major
3. Honors
4. Dissertation Title and Dissertation Advisor
5. Law Certificates
Please be aware that there are still some pieces of information that are in red type in the document. The red type indicates that we’re still working on this information.
If there is something you would like us to change, please email registrar@drake.edu with the following pieces of information:
Submit all changes to registrar@drake.edu by email by 12 PM (noon) on Friday, April 5th, 2024.
I. If you have not filed a graduation application by February 15th, there is no guarantee that your name will appear in the commencement program because of printing/proofreading deadlines. Please file your application ASAP. Your graduation application not only gets your name listed in the program, it also assures you a seat among the graduates from your college during the commencement ceremony and assures that the college will process your degree release in a timely manner.
II. According to a Faculty Senate ruling from Spring 2005, colleges will not be able to "release your degree" if you have an Incomplete grade (I) earned in any course from Spring 2005 to the present time. Until your degree is released, no diploma will be mailed and your transcript will not say you have graduated. Keep this in mind as you complete this semester's work.
III. Related to item II above, if all the work for your degree is not completed within 45 days after the end of the term your graduation term will be moved forward to the next term. That is, if you are an anticipated May graduate but you still have outstanding work by July 8, 2024 your diploma and transcript will not say you are a May graduate. Your graduation date will be moved forward to August 2024.