{"id":157,"date":"2024-02-05T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/?p=157"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:51:12","slug":"commencement-vs-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/2024\/02\/05\/commencement-vs-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement vs. Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a difference between graduation and commencement. Even if your student isn&#8217;t a senior yet, this information may be helpful to review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commencement is a ceremony where the student\u2019s accomplishments are celebrated.&nbsp; Graduation is the official awarding of the degree.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students must complete a Graduation Application to be officially awarded their degree.&nbsp; On the application there is an area to complete if one desires to attend commencement.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will not graduate&nbsp;<u>without<\/u>&nbsp;a Graduation Application on file with the Registrar\u2019s office regardless of attending commencement.&nbsp; Students can fill out the Graduation Application through their Banner Web.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.alfred.edu\/graduation\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">graduation checklist<\/a> available online to help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your student is a senior, please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfred.edu\/student-life\/events\/commencement.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commencement page<\/a>\u00a0on the AU webpage. Here you will find out about tickets, how to register to stay on campus, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between graduation and commencement. Even if your student isn&#8217;t a senior yet, this information may be helpful to review. Commencement is a ceremony where the student\u2019s accomplishments are celebrated.&nbsp; Graduation is the official awarding of the degree.&nbsp; Students must complete a Graduation Application to be officially awarded their degree.&nbsp; On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}