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Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony - Volunteers Needed!

Alumni Services is looking for volunteers to assist us with Fall Commencement.  As you may or may not know, 90% of the staff at commencement are faculty, staff, annuitants and Alumni Association board members who graciously volunteer their time to help give students and their families an excellent experience.  That said, we are looking for some more amazing people willing to volunteer a couple hours and help us celebrate all the hard work and success our students have accomplished!

We have two areas where we need volunteer assistance: 

1.     Ticket Distribution – Wednesday, May 1 and Thursday, May 2  – Lantz Fieldhouse
Generally our time slots are as followed:  8:45-11:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; and 2-4:30 p.m.

2.         Commencement Day – Saturday, May 4 – HIGHER NEED OF VOLUNTEERS. We will need volunteers for several different positions, which include: collecting tickets, passing out programs, helping students in the Student Rec Center, assisting with wheel chairs and helping answer questions in the main concourse.  Please consider spending part or all of the day with our graduates and their families.  If you wish to assist all day we would ask you arrive at 8:30 a.m. and could be done assisting by 5:15 p.m. 

The Spring 2024 Commencement ceremonies will be held on Saturday, May 4.  There will be three ceremonies:

                10 a.m. - Undergraduate Degrees for College of Education and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

                1:30 p.m. - All Graduate Degrees

               5:00  p.m. - Undergraduate Degrees for Lumpkin College of Business and Technology and College of Health and Human Services                       

If you would like to volunteer for the Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremonies and help make this a great experience for the graduates and their families please email me with what you are interested in assisting with.  Even if you can only provide a few hours of assistance, anything and everything is greatly appreciated. 

Please feel free to share this with your colleagues, we would enjoy having them join us at commencement as well. 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to email dlgough2@eiu.edu or call (217) 581-7053.

Thank you for your consideration!