Congratulations on completing your degree program!  This website is designed to help your friends, your family and you celebrate and honor your achievements and to make preparing for graduation easy and exciting. The pages of this site will be updated as information develops about registration, ceremonies and celebrations. You'll be able to plan a visit, learn about the history of CWU commencements, and even meet our graduates--past and present.  

The first thing you need to know is the when and where of commencement itself.  In order to accommodate the great number of graduates and their families and friends, CWU will hold three commencement ceremonies:

June 8, Tomlinson Stadium
    1610 N Walnut St., Ellensburg
    9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 
Bachelor's and master's degree recipients in the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of the Sciences, and interdisciplinary study and individual study majors.

June 8, Tomlinson Stadium
    1610 N Walnut St., Ellensburg
    2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Bachelor's and master's degree recipients in the College of Business and the College of  Education and Professional Studies.

June 9, ShoWare Center
    625 West James Street, Kent
    1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
This ceremony is open to graduates of CWU programs at campuses in Steilacoom, Kent,  Des Moines, Lynnwood, and Everett.

View the slideshow below to see excerpts from CWU's 2012 Ellensburg graduation exercises.