Commencement of the 254th Academic Year

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Morningside Campus

All degree candidates for May 2008 and graduates from February 2008 and October 2007 from all schools and colleges affiliated with Columbia University are warmly encouraged to attend.


Did you know...
	Originally founded as King's College in 1754 by royal charter of England's King George II, what is now Columbia University suspended instruction in 1776. In 1784, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Mayor James Duane, and Assemblyman Alexander Hamilton revived the former Anglican institution, persuading the New York Legislature to create a "state university" that would assume the property of King's College under a new charter and a new name. The new name -- Columbia College-- reflected a desire to appear to be a new-world, non-British, institution.