August/December 2011 graduates and May/August 2012 candidates can obtain only four (4) guest tickets and their student participation ticket. All guests, including infants, must have a ticket. Extra guests may bring lawn chairs and sit outside the reserved seating area. You must have your confirmation number.
Step 1: Take the Graduate Exit Survey to obtain your confirmation number:
August/December 2011 graduates: You were invited to respond to the Graduate Exit Survey beginning Friday, January 20 2012. Go to your primary email and find a message sent from Jacqueline Andrews. The subject line is: Take the Graduate Exit Survey! Get Your Commencement confirmation number!
There is a link at the end of the survey. When you click on it, you will go to a screen and check a box, enter your user name and password and press SUBMIT. Your confirmation number will then appear. You will need your confirmation number for your four guest tickets, student participation ticket and to pick up your cap and gown. Click here to view example.
May/August 2012 candidates: You are invited to respond to the Graduate Exit Survey beginning, Wednesday April 18, 2012. Go to your primary email and find a message sent from Jacqueline Andrews. The subject line is: Take the Graduate Exit Survey! Get Your Commencement confirmation number!
There is a link at the end of the survey. When you click on it, you will go to a screen and check a box, enter your user name and password and press SUBMIT. Your confirmation number will then appear. You will need your confirmation number for your four guest tickets, student participation ticket and to pick up your cap and gown. Click here to view example.
Step 2: How do I pick up my tickets? (3 ways). Note: If someone other than the candidate is picking up the tickets, that individual will need a photo ID and a signed note from the candidate with a confirmation number.
1. You may pick up your four (4) guest tickets and your candidate participation ticket when you attend one of the two ceremony rehearsals in Lecture Center, 100:
Dates: Wednesday, May 2 or Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tickets will be distributed at the end of each of these rehearsals. This one hour rehearsal will explain how the day will unfold and answer questions. Candidates picking up tickets must provide their New Paltz ID and confirmation number. Attendance is encouraged.
2. Friday, May 4 until Friday, May 18, 2012 --tickets will also be distributed at the Welcome Center in the HAB Lobby: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. Note: On Friday, May 18, tickets will only be distributed until 3:00 PM.
3. Candidates or their families may also pick up their tickets the day of the ceremony at the Will-Call table if they were unable to arrange pick up at one of the rehearsals or the Welcome Center. The Will-Call table is located by the stone benches near the Jacobson Faculty Tower in the academic concourse. If someone other than the candidate is picking up the tickets, that individual will need a photo ID and a signed note from the candidate with a confirmation number.
