IMPORTANT NOTE: Friday Graduate Commencement Ceremony will move indoors to Athletic & Wellness Center due to lightning in forecast
The Graduate Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 16, at 6 p.m., will now be held in the Athletic & Wellness Center on campus, due to thunderstorms and lightning in the forecast at the time of the ceremony.
Graduates who are participating in the Friday Ceremony should now plan to line up in Elting Gymnasium. Lineup will begin at 5 p.m. Enter via the Elting Gymnasium entrance on the side of the building.
- Stage party members will line up in the Elting Gymnasium conference room at 5:15 p.m.
- Faculty and staff participants should meet in the curve in the west end of the Athletic & Wellness Center by 5:30 p.m.
- Parking lots near the Athletic & Wellness Center will be available for participants and guests. This area of campus is accessible from both the South Entrance off Route 32 and the West Entrance off Route 208. Use this link for a map of campus.
- Guests without reserved tickets will be admitted to the gym based on space availability following the beginning of the ceremony. Alternatively, shuttle service can take guests from the Athletic & Wellness Center to the Lecture Center where the ceremony will be lived-streamed. Shuttle service will also be available from the Athletic & Wellness Center to all parking areas.
We thank the many faculty and staff around campus whose planning, expertise and tireless effort this week make it possible for us to move forward with a safe and joyous ceremony for our graduates.
Commencement 2025 is a celebration of our New Paltz Hawks!
To ensure a safe and joyful experience for graduates and their families, we ask that all attendees respect our policies on:
- Freedom of Expression on a Public University Campus
- The “Heckler’s Veto” and Other Disruptive Conduct
- SUNY Rules for the Maintenance of Public Order
- Prohibited Items at Commencement Ceremonies
- Resources for Those who Encounter Speech They Find Challenging or Offensive
Friday, May 16, 2025: Graduate Commencement Ceremony, 6 – 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 17, 2025: Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences), 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 18, 2025: Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony (Schools of Business, Education, Fine & Performing Arts, Science & Engineering), 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
TICKETS
Step 1: A Glitnir Ticketing account is required to access your Commencement guest tickets. You may already have an account if you have purchased tickets to a Theatre or Music event on campus. To login to an existing Glitnir Ticketing account or to create a new one:, you may create one here.
Once you have confirmed you have acquired your Glitnir ticketing account, please follow these remaining steps:
Step 2: Click on your ceremony’s ticket link
- Friday, May 16: https://am1.glitnirticketing.com/amticket/web/offerlanding.php?offer_id=88012957
- Graduate
- Saturday, May 17: https://am1.glitnirticketing.com/amticket/web/offerlanding.php?offer_id=88012958
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Sunday, May 18: https://am1.glitnirticketing.com/amticket/web/offerlanding.php?offer_id=88012959
- School of Business
- School of Education
- School of Fine & Performing Arts
- School of Science & Engineering
Step 3: Enter your ceremony’s Presale/Offer Code from
- Friday, May 16: Hawks516
- Saturday, May 17: Blue517
- Sunday, May 18: Orange18
Step 4: Reserve up to four (4) guest tickets
Step 5: After submitting your order, your tickets will be store in your Glitnir Ticketing account, where you can view your ticket barcodes, print your tickets and add them to Apple or Google Wallets.
Step 6: When providing tickets to your guests, please avoid forwarding screenshots of the barcodes. Screenshots degrade the quality of the image, making it difficult for our ticket scanners to validate them. To ensure smooth entry for your guests, share your tickets with them through Apple Wallet, Google Wallet or a traditional print-at-home ticket. All these options are available through your Glitnir Ticketing account. Guests with unscannable tickets will not be admitted.
Ticket Help?
Please fill out this form and someone from our ticketing office will get back to you shortly. Please do not contact the Commencement Office for ticket assistance as this office does not have access to the ticketing software.
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Guest Tickets:
Tickets will be available online through Glitnir Ticketing to graduating students who have completed their 2025 Application for Graduation with the Office of Records and Registration.
Up to four (4) guest tickets may be reserved by qualifying graduates to their ceremony online starting Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Graduates who have completed their applications will be sent an e-mail with a ticket link to your ceremony and a Presale/Offer Code for access to your ceremony. Double majors whose ceremonies fall on different days must select one ceremony to attend. Ticket reservations are to be made by May 2025 SUNY New Paltz graduates only. All other reservations will be cancelled.
Due to space capacity inside the reserved seating area, and to be fair to all students, four (4) tickets is the maximum number we can offer for the reserved section. Additional guests are welcome to bring lawn chairs and blankets and sit outside the reserved seating area. Children ages 2+ require a ticket for entry into the reserved seating area.
A list of departments and programs by academic school can be found on this webpage. And as a reminder for graduating students, applications for May 2025 degree conferral must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on January 1, 2025. If you missed this due date, please register your application with the Office of Records & Registration, who can also answer your questions regarding credits and eligibility.
For more information about the Commencement Planning Committee, please see this webpage. And general ceremony information can be found here. We want to take this opportunity to send a very special thank you to all the students who participated in the survey described on the committee webpage, a focus group or offered suggestions in other ways. Your contributions are essential to making this commencement a success for all.
We are grateful for the broad input received and look forward to a joyous commencement weekend in May 2025 where we can celebrate our students and their many achievements. And we hope that our graduates and their families, faculty, staff and the broader campus community, will join us then in supporting this momentous occasion.
