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Commencement Participation Policy
Per the Commencement Participation Policy students are eligible to register for the Commencement ceremony if:
- They have received their degrees* during the Summer and Fall semesters that immediately precede the current Spring semester and who have not participated in a previous ceremony for the same degree, or
- They will be graduating during the Spring semester and have not participated in a previous ceremony for the same degree.
*Degrees are defined as master’s or doctoral degrees. Students who received or are receiving a certificate only are not eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony and their names will not appear in the commencement program.
Commencement Ceremony Registration
Registration is required to participate in the Commencement ceremony.
A link to the Commencement Registration Form will be sent by commencement@cgu.edu to the student’s CGU email address when the registration period opens on Monday, March 3rd. Students must register their intent to participate in the ceremony by Friday, April 4, 2025 to be included in commencement ceremony materials.
Students who do not receive this email or are unable to locate this email can also access the form on the Registrar’s Office Forms website.
Summer 2025 degree recipients
Students expecting to complete their degree in the Summer 2025 term are invited to submit the Commencement Registration Form to express their intent to participate in the Spring 2025 ceremony. However, as university policy restricts participation to those students who completed their degree in the Summer 2024, Fall 2024, and Spring 2025 terms, the request will undergo additional review by your academic advisor in collaboration with the Registrar’s Office and Provost. Please note that upon submission of the Commencement Registration Form, the form will be automatically routed through the petition process. Students are not required to submit a separate petition to register their intent to participate. Eligibility requirements are as follows:
- You must be enrolled for the semester in which you expect to graduate.
- Your class schedule must address any remaining coursework required for the degree.
- Your student account must be free of any financial obligations and other holds preventing registration.
- You must meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards in order to graduate from CGU. If you are on academic probation, you will not be eligible to participate in Commencement.
- Doctoral students: You must have submitted and expect to successfully defend and complete all revisions to your dissertation by the deadlines published for the summer term.
- Master’s students: No more than eight units are needed to complete your degree program; twelve for Teacher Education students.
Students approved to participate in the ceremony who will not be earning their degree will have their name appear in the 2025 Commencement Program under “Anticipated Summer 2025 Degree Recipients.” The student’s name will also appear as Awarded in the relevant program after final degree requirements have been satisfied.
Graduation FAQs
Graduation forms are available on the Forms webpage. They include:
- Intent to Receive a Degree (the link for Summer expected graduates will become active May 19, 2025)
- Final Approval Master’s/Certificate
- Request for Dissertation Defense Announcement
- Final Approval Doctoral Degree
Active Status – Requirements Complete: If all academic and institutional degree requirements, including the removal of outstanding Incomplete grades and receipt by the Registrar’s Office of all forms including all required signatures, are accomplished prior to the first day of classes for that next semester, the student may not be required to register in the semester of degree conferral.
In these cases, the academic department should confirm that all approvals have been recorded prior to the first day of the term and then inform the Registrar’s Office that the student is in degree requirements complete status. This status will be recorded on a student’s transcript, and they will remain in active status until the first available date of degree conferral and will not have to register for Continuous Registration or Doctoral Study.
This status is only applicable for students who were enrolled at CGU during the term immediately preceding the term of graduation (for fall graduates in degree requirements complete status, enrollment in the preceding spring or summer term is required). Students on a university-approved leave of absence in the previous term or who are reinstating to the university in the semester of graduation are not eligible. Students are also not eligible if they are working on additional degrees at CGU that are incomplete.
You may order official transcripts online through Parchment (https://www.parchment.com/). For more information about transcripts, please visit the Transcript Requests section of the Registrar’s webpages.
If your degree is not yet posted but you have fulfilled all requirements for the degree, you may request an official letter (form available on the Registrar’s forms webpage) from the Registrar’s Office.
See the Diploma Distribution section of the Student Records webpage.