Commencement

From U of I Wiki

Commencement is the campus-wide graduation ceremony at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The university holds two commencement ceremonies, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, to accommodate the large number of graduation candidates.

Convocation is the college- or unit-wide graduation ceremony.

Students can attend

[edit] Speakers

The 2007 commencement speaker was Jawed Karim, co-founder of the social video website YouTube and University of Illinois alumnus. Karim earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the university in 2004.

[edit] External Links

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