The deadline to file for spring 2012 graduation is Monday, April 2, with the commencement ceremony set for May 11.
“Graduation is such an important benchmark to celebrate,” says Dr. Richard Rhodes, ACC president/CEO. “It leads to better employment opportunities and makes a student more likely to complete future education goals. Graduation also creates role models for the next generation of students.”
Commencement will honor graduates from summer and fall 2011 and spring 2012. Last year ACC hit a graduation milestone, with approximately 2,200 students eligible to take part in the annual ceremony. More than 1,100 applied to graduate last spring, also a record.
“It’s really cool to feel like you’ve achieved something – that you’ve definitely become more excelled, not only as a student but also as a person,” says Garrett Staas, president of Phi Theta Kappa and an enginnering major who plans to graduate this spring.
Find out more about applying for graduation on the Admissions & Records webpage (download a graduation application here). Details on the May 11 graduation ceremony also are available online.
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By Wynona@EGO Starter Kits March 14, 2012 - 2:56 pm
Graduation time is really fast approaching and it’s inevitable.. Congrats to all the graduates! Kudos! 🙂
By Susan Wilkinson March 15, 2012 - 3:35 pm
Can we apply online for the Fall 2012 semester?
By ACC Staff March 19, 2012 - 4:42 pm
Susan, you may apply online to graduate within a year of your intended graduation. So yes, you may apply online to graduate this fall.
By DT March 20, 2012 - 2:15 pm
I will not complete all my classes for graduation until the end of the Fall 2012 semester. I can apply now before the April 2 deadline?
By Kelsie March 21, 2012 - 5:12 pm
When is the deadline for graduation if completed this summer 2012?
By Rita Rockhold March 28, 2012 - 9:52 pm
I set foot on ACC Rio Grande Campus for the first time as a college student in September of 2009 and I am graduating this May. To this day, I still wonder how I ever got there in the first place, but through thick and thin I’ve hung in for the long hall. I owe the staff (including a few favorite professors)and the students that I now call my friends a debt of gratitude for the support they’ve each given me in my journey.
It’s still really hard to believe that this is really my life.
Thank you all,
Rita Rockhold
By Tammy Knight April 2, 2012 - 3:09 am
I don’t understand why there is a once a year graduation ceremony. I will be completing my degree this summer and transferring in the fall. I don’t really see the sense in paying for the expense of graduation almost a year after I receive my diploma. I feel this robs some students of the recognition of their hard work. By the time graduation ceremony would come around I will be only a year away from my bachelor’s degree.