The University of the South's 2023-24 academic year comes to a close May 10, 11, and 12 with commencement exercises marking graduation weekend on the Mountain.
ALL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ARE BEING LIVESTREAMED HERE.
The 167th Convocation for Conferring of Degrees for the School of Theology will be held Friday, May 10; the University Baccalaureate will take place on Saturday, May 11; and a Convocation for Conferring of Degrees for the College of Arts and Sciences will be held on Sunday, May 12. Each of these ceremonies will begin at 10 a.m. in All Saints’ Chapel and will be livestreamed for those who are unable to attend.
The School of Theology
The seminary will graduate 27 students receiving varying diplomas and degrees from Vice-Chancellor Pearigen. The Rt. Rev. Frank Logue, the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, will deliver the sermon and receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree. The Rt. Rev. Daniel Paul Richards, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, and the Rt. Rev. Peter Eaton, the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, will also receive honorary doctor of divinity degrees. Read More.
University Baccalaureate
On Saturday, theologian Christoph Keller III will deliver the baccalaureate address. Rev. Keller and The Rt. Rev. Susan Bunton Haynes, the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia and the diocese’s first female diocesan bishop, will both receive an honorary doctor of divinity degrees. Read More
The College of Arts and Sciences
Sunday’s Commencement ceremony for the College of Arts and Science will be held in All Saints’ Chapel. More than 400 students will graduate from the College this year. As is tradition, the sound of bells will mark the start of the ceremony as the procession of faculty walk into All Saints’ Chapel. Commencement Program,
Awards and honors for graduating students will be announced, including the Dean’s Awards and the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for character, leadership, and service to the University and the Sewanee community—the University’s highest award for students.
A greeting from the president of the Student Government Association and the delivery of the senior oration will be followed by the conferral of degrees. Vice-Chancellor Rob Pearigen will conclude the ceremony by delivering the University’s charge to the graduates. The traditional Sewanee recessional takes the new graduates through a line of faculty members on the University Avenue sidewalk outside the chapel—and takes them into an outpouring of applause and cheers. More information can be found at Commencement Central.
