IU Bloomington

IU Southeast

IU Kokomo

IU South Bend

IPFW

IU Northwest

IU East

IUPUI

The daily schedule of commencement observances will begin May 6 in Bloomington. The other commencements are: Southeast (IUS) -- 7 p.m. May 8 in the IUS Amphitheater near New Albany; Kokomo (IUK) -- 1:30 p.m. May 9 on the IUK campus; South Bend (IUSB) -- 7 p.m. May 9 in Notre Dame's Joyce Center; Fort Wayne (IPFW) -- 7 p.m. May 10 in the Fort Wayne Coliseum; Northwest (IUN) -- 5 p.m. May 11 in the Merillville Star Plaza Theater; East (IUE) -- 6 p.m. May 12 in Richmond's Tiernan Center; and Indianapolis (IUPUI) -- 3 p.m. May 14 in the RCA Dome.

IU Bloomington will award 6,186 degrees. Other campuses will award the following number of IU degrees: IUPUI, 3,368; IU East, 261; IPFW, 821; IU Kokomo, 379; IU Northwest, 827; IU South Bend, 853; and IU Southeast, 763. The figures include Bloomington degree candidates for May, June and August, as well as graduate students whose degrees have been or will be awarded on a monthly basis from January through July of this year. For all other campuses, these figures include degree recipients from December 1999, and degree candidates for May, June and August 2000. Also included are graduate students whose degrees have been or will be awarded on a monthly basis during the 1999-2000 academic year.

Receiving honorary degrees this year will be:

• Bloomington: John Mellencamp, Doctor of Music, who also will be the Bloomington commencement speaker; Thomas M. Lofton, chairman of the board of directors of Lilly Endowment Inc., Doctor of Laws; William G. Mays, founder of Mays Chemical Co. and publisher of The Indianapolis Recorder, Doctor of Science; and Flerida Ruth P. Romero, retired Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Doctor of Laws.
• IUPUI : Mari Evans, the internationally recognized poet, playwright, educator, essayist and producer, Doctor of Humane Letters; Robert L. Payton, founding director of the IU Center on Philanthropy, Doctor of Humane Letters; and Amara Raksasataya, a scholar and public servant in Thailand, Doctor of Laws.
• IU East: Charles A. Combopiano, founder of Richmond's Whitewater Opera Company, Doctor of Music.
 

IU Bloomington's 171st year of commencement activities will begin May 5 with the traditional graduation send-off from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Bryan House, the Bloomington campus home of IU President Myles Brand and his wife, IU Professor Peg Brand.

The send-off will be followed by a baccalaureate from 5 to 5:45 p.m. in the IU Auditorium.

In the event of severe weather, the IU Bloomington commencement will be held in two sessions in Assembly Hall, with the following schedule: at 10 a.m., Kelley School of Business; School of Education; School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; School of Law; School of Music; School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and University Graduate School (doctoral candidates in above areas); at 3:30 p.m., College of Arts and Sciences; School of Continuing Studies; School of Journalism; School of Library and Information Science; School of Optometry; and University Graduate School (doctoral candidates in above areas).

(J T. Forbes, 812-855-7201, forbesjt@indiana.edu).

Return to the OCM Home Page