Due to the limited number of seats in Meany Theater, tickets will be required for all guests.
Each student who RSVPs for Convocation through the UW Commencement website will automatically be
allotted four (4) tickets.
How to get your tickets:
- Go to the UW Commencement web site
between May 4th and 24th and order your academic regalia. Make sure to indicate that you will
attend the School of Nursing's ceremony on June 12th.
- Pick up your tickets in Academic Services (Room T-310) June 1st - 5th, between 10am and
noon.
- You may request additional tickets online beginning May 26th.
All tickets will be available for pickup beginning June 1st.
Notes about the tickets:
- Seating is not assigned, unless your guests require special accommodation due to
disabilities. Requests for special accommodations must be made in advance.
- Children under 2 years of age do not require tickets, but must be held on the lap of
an adult guest.
- If you have already graduated and are coming from outside the greater Seattle area,
please contact Erica Winberry (keridwen at uw dot edu)
to make arrangements to pick up your tickets.
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Graduates must arrive at 8:00am, wearing their academic apparel, for instructions
and class pictures. DO NOT bring apparel in plastic bags; these bags will
be thrown away.
Before the ceremony, PONS will be selling coffee and
muffins outside the main doors to Meany Theater.
By George
(directly across from the main theater doors) will have bathrooms and seating available, as well
as coffee and breakfast items.
The main doors to Meany Theater will open at 9:00am for guests. All seats have an excellent view of
the stage. We cannot accommodate strollers in the auditorium. Space is extremely limited and priority
is given to wheelchair-bound guests. Due to limited spaces for wheelchairs, you should contact
Stephanie Kirschner (stann at uw dot edu, 206-616-5066)
as soon as possible.
The Convocation ceremony begins prompty at 9:30am.
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Academic attire is required at Convocation, or you will not be allowed to participate. Orders for
academic apparel must be made between May 4th and May 24th via the
UW Commencement
Web Registration/Order Form.
Graduates must arrive the morning of Convocation wearing their academic apparel. Do NOT
bring apparel in plastic bags, as these bags will be thrown away. Purses and coats may not be brought
into the auditorium; PONS will have a coat check set up in the Meany Studio Theater
for a modest donation.
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Parking is ONLY available to those who register and pay online. You may request parking in the
underground parking garage below Meany Theater (15th Avenue NE entrance) or at the parking lot
by the Burke Museum (NE 45th Street entrance).
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If you anticipate any guest in a wheelchair or who may need other disability accommodations,
please follow the instructions below. Wheelchair spaces are limited, and therefore filled
on a space-available basis.
- Register for parking/disabled parking online between May 4th - May 24th on the
UW
Commencement Site.
- Contact Stephanie Kirschner (stann at uw dot edu,
206-616-5066) with your name and the total number of guests in your party (please remember to limit
your guest count to four). Your entire party will have reserved seating next to those needing
disabled seating.
- Specify the number of guests using wheelchairs, walkers, or who have difficulty walking. Be
specific about the limitations of your guests.
- Contact the UW Disability Services Office, 4045 Brooklyn Ave NE, 206-543-6450 with any
additional questions regarding disability needs.
- Arrive at Meany Hall by 8:45am so that your party may be seated before general seating
begins.
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