As our university grows, we pay close attention to the growing and changing needs of our students, faculty and staff. One simple change we have decided to implement will make end-of-semester testing and grading smoother and easier for everyone involved.
Beginning this December, TCU will no longer hand out diplomas at Commencement ceremonies. This means graduating students won’t require earlier, separate dates for finals. Faculty teaching graduating students will not need to maintain separate rosters or rush to turn around their final grades in advance of the ceremony. Our Registrar’s Office will not need to assemble thousands of diplomas in a few days.
We are notifying December graduating students on Tuesday, July 8, about what to expect and how to obtain their diplomas after Commencement. We will do the same in the spring semester for May graduating students, and so on.
My office and the Registrar’s Office will communicate with faculty throughout the semester to provide continuing guidance. The TCU Commencement website, www.commencement.tcu.edu, is being updated to reflect this change. I recommend checking there if you are a parent of a graduating student, a graduating student yourself, or receive questions from students.
Best wishes,
Floyd. L. Wormley Jr.
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs