[akiddoc]

My son just graduated from college. A large public university in the midwest. In fact, it has grown so rapidly that in the 4 years he has been there it has become almost as large as UCB (grew from 16K to 23K undergrads in 4 years). The way they handled graduation is to divide it into 14 ceremonies over a 6 day period. Most of the ceremonies were in the basketball arena, which holds about 10K. My son's grad was the smallest, with about 260 students, including graduate students (College of Architecture, Art and Design). There were about 1,000 guests in attendance. It worked out quite well.

[akiddoc]

My son just graduated from college. A large public university in the midwest. In fact, it has grown so rapidly that in the 4 years he has been there it has become almost as large as UCB (grew from 16K to 23K undergrads in 4 years). The way they handled graduation is to divide it into 14 ceremonies over a 6 day period. Most of the ceremonies were in the basketball arena, which holds about 10K. My son's grad was the smallest, with about 260 students, including graduate students (College of Architecture, Art and Design). There were about 1,000 guests in attendance. It worked out quite well.