All Columbia University faculty and officers are invited to participate in the academic procession. The academic procession will begin at 10:30 a.m., formally beginning the exercises of the University Commencement. Participants in the academic procession should begin assembling in the designated areas in Low Memorial Library at 10:00 a.m. Full academic regalia is required. Marshals and Event HostsAll faculty, officers, and staff of the University are invited to serve as marshals for University Commencement on May 18, or the Baccalaureate Service on May 14. Marshals play an important role in the ceremony, organizing and ushering both the academic and degree candidate processions. Marshals wear academic regalia, which is provided by the Commencement office if needed. Other volunteers serve as Event Hosts during Commencement week activities. Identified by their Event Host polo shirts, this corps of volunteers is trained to meet the needs of guests and visitors to Columbia. For more information, or to volunteer as a marshal, please contact University Programs and Events at commencement@columbia.edu or at 212-854-1753. |
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Low Memorial Library has the largest all-granite dome in North America. Above each of the sixteen columns in the Rotunda are pedestals for marble statues, only four of which were erected. On the north side of the Rotunda, from left to right, are a copy of the Giustinian Euripides in the Vatican (donated by Charles McKim), a copy of the Vatican Demosthenes (donated by W. Bayard Cutting, 1869 CC), Sophocles, a copy of the statue in the Lateran Museum (donated by Dr. George G. Wheelock, 1864 CC), and Augustus Caesar, a copy of the statue in the Louvre (donated by F. Augustus Schermerhorn, CC 1868). | ||
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