2011 Commencement Events
Revisit all the events leading up to Commencement and view photos of our students celebrating their achievements at the various events that lead up to the big day.
You can also see and comment on photos from the day's event at the college's Facebook page.
Honors Convocation is our chance to recognize our students' achievements through awards, scholarships, and honor society inductions. Seniors and underclassmen are honored for their hard work and dedication to learning.
Each year, the senior class presents a special gift to the college. This year, the seniors came together to fund a scholarship in memory of a former classmate, Chris J. Burnham.
Helping nurses advance their careers through completing their bachelor's degrees is another way we try to make community healthcare better. This pinning ceremony is a rite of passage for our nursing students and a way to celebrate their accomplishment.
Educating nurses who work in our community and our very neighborhood is a privilege and honor. We honor their completion of a four-year degree with this special nurse pinning ceremony.
Our graduate students deserve a special distinction for the hard work they do each day of balancing the competing commitments of education, work, and life. This year we held the first ever graduate hooding ceremony to shine a light on their success.
Part-time undergraduate students take many atypical paths, but manage to come to the same goal: a college degree. Their perseverance and commitment is both humbling and inspiring.
This year's graduating class brought the tally of CSD alumni to 230. This small, closely-knit program attracts students who are committed to helping others and the hard work it takes to get there. CSD alumni come back each year to congratulate the graduating class at this reception.
It is a special gift to the world to pursue a career in healing others. Our nursing students go on to care for their communities and make them healthier, one well-tended patient at a time. This pinning is held to honor their graduation.
Paralegals are often the backbone of a successful law practice, and our graduates are exceptionally prepared to work in the service of justice. This ceremony is held annually to award them their American Bar Association accredited certificates.
In this time-honored Elms tradition, students attend their final mass the day before commencement, to receive their final blessings before Commencement, and behind their academic days.
At our 80th Commencement exercises, Elms College awarded degrees and diplomas to 343 men and women who are now part of the Elms College alumni family.