Commencement 2025
Schedule of Events
May 16-17, 2025
Details of these activities and events may change by May 17. An up-to-date final schedule, noting time changes and locations, will be available upon your arrival on campus. Please be sure to pick one up at the Information Desk in Case Center's commons area, second floor, on Friday, May 16, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Your senior will also receive a copy.
Friday, May 16
Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony followed by Recognition for Graduating Honors Forum Seniors
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Held annually, the Periclean Scholar Awards competition recognizes excellence by awarding up to four prizes to seniors for distinguished projects in all disciplines. Periclean Scholar Awards recipients share the honor of this achievement at a ceremonial presentation of the project open to the College community. Following these presentations, Honors Forum members who are graduating seniors will receive their recognition medals. A reception will follow to celebrate graduating HF seniors and Periclean Scholar Awards recipients.
For additional information on Periclean Honors Forum, please contact Joseph Cermatori.
At The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Wachenheim Gallery, Malloy Wing
February 14, 2025 - June 29, 2025
Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves is the fifth exhibition in a series that invites an artist to create a museum community space devoted to art, conversation, and contemplation. Yvette Molina presents new art and designs in this site-specific and evolving installation centered around the four elements—earth, air, water, fire—and a fifth constituent, the cosmos. In focusing on these ancient, fundamental substances, Molina reminds us that humans, plants, and all earthly beings are made of star stuff and survive by the elements. She encourages us to consider care as entangled within circles of life—care for one another, whether human or non-human, is care for ourselves and for all. Throughout the exhibition’s two years, Molina is inviting other artists to present their work in the space, bringing together multiple perspectives, styles, and materials and regularly re-energizing the installation’s balance between comfort and provocation.
Senior Thesis Art Exhibit
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
May 12–17, 2025
This exhibit showcases outstanding works in all media by senior studio-art majors.
for more information on these exhibitions.
Main Gym, Williamson Sports Center
By invitation only.
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Induction ceremony for new members. Faculty, staff, students, and their families are welcome to attend. Reception follows.
Case Center Plaza (Rain plan - The Spa, Case Center)
A brief ceremony for seniors, families, and friends to announce the senior class gift as well as the total amount contributed by the senior 2025 class, and dedicate the Class of 2025 brick pathway, given by the families of the Class of 2025 in honor of their graduating seniors. Each brick is engraved with the name of the student whose families participate in the Class of 2025 Senior Family Project.
Visit the Class of 2025 Parent and Family Giving page for more information.
President's Reception
Scribner House, 791 North Broadway (Rain plan-Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, first floor)
President Marc C. Conner and Barbara Reyes-Conner greet seniors, their guests, trustees,
faculty and staff at their home, historic Scribner House
Saturday, May 17
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College Campus
Families, friends, and seniors are welcome as guests of the College.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Seniors arrive, pick up diplomas, and form processional.
Audience members are asked to be seated by this time.
114th Commencement Exercises
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Commencement Reception
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Come celebrate! Please join graduates, families, friends, faculty, and staff for
a celebratory reception following the Commencement Ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate
the wonderful accomplishments of ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College's Class of 2024.
The ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Shop will be open Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with 15% off on branded merchandise.
On Saturday, in addition to their campus store hours of 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Shop will have a pop-up location at Commencement. Great new merchandise and ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ swag will be available, including diploma frames, hats, hoodies, t-shirts, and branded other gifts items for the whole family. Join us in celebrating and commemorating your time at ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College in style and with pride.
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's Commencement Exercises are held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, located in the Saratoga Spa State Park, several miles from campus. The SPAC amphitheater is covered but not enclosed. This map will show parking, facilities, and points of interests.