The graduation office, along with the Office of Undergraduate Advisement, is offering a graduation forum on Tuesday and Wednesday in the D. P. Culp Center Auditorium from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
This forum, which is primarily targeted at juniors and seniors, will acquaint students with the graduation process.
Contrary to the graduation exposition held by the student affairs’ office in October, which concentrates on the graduation ceremony and post graduation career planning, the graduation forum is targeted at explaining graduation forms, GPA requirements, degree requirements, and class substitutions.
The forum will be conducted by Susan Burkey, who heads the graduation office.
She will be able to help students with any problems they have concerning graduation and will also be able to answer any question students have about the graduation process.
Dr. Ramona Williams, the project’s coordinator, stated that the forum will “help students graduating in both December and May [by allowing] students to become proactive and not wait until the last minute, so that if there is anything to resolve it can be done within the time limit.”
Williams added that, “the forum is a trial run, and if it works well, we’ll do it again in January.”
The goal of this program, said Williams, is to “do that [which] the students find beneficial. This forum will allow us to inform students of deadlines and processes involved in the preliminary graduation checks as well as the final check-out process.”
All students are invited to attend the free graduation forum.
For more information, please contact Burkey, ETSU assistant registrar, at 439-6823, or e-mail her at burkeys@etsu.edu.

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