How to Apply for Graduation

Undergraduate (Associate or Bachelor)

Login to mySAU and click on Campus Connect
Navigate to the Forms tab and click “Apply for Graduation”
Select term, complete form and submit
Save e-mail verification of application for your records
A degree audit form must be printed, completed with the assistance of the student’s advisor, and approved by the appropriate faculty members.

Graduate (Certificate or Master)

Apply online
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Summer 2017 Commencement

Location: W. T. Watson Athletic Center
Date: Friday, August 4
Time: 10 a.m.

All candidates should assemble in the Auxiliary Gym of the W. T. Watson Athletic Center no later than 9 a.m. This arrival time will ensure that each candidate is present and correctly positioned in the line of march. If you fail to arrive on time, you may not be allowed to participate in the ceremony.

Diplomas will be mailed to the address submitted on the graduation application no later than 45 days after Commencement. If this address is not correct, please immediately submit the Change of Student Information form through your student CampusConnect account.

Caps and gowns will be available in the bookstore July 26 – Aug. 4, 2017. Students will be allowed to keep their regalia. The bookstore hours are from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, July 26 – 27 and 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, July 31 – Aug.4. If you would like your regalia mailed, please contact the bookstore at (870) 235-4050.

Proper dress for this important occasion is of the utmost importance; dark slacks with a dress shirt and tie are recommended for the men. Simply styled, dark colored dresses or slacks, and shoes without high heels are recommended for the women.

If you cannot be present, please submit a written notice to the Office of the Registrar before August 2, 2017, indicating that you wish to graduate in absentia.

PLEASE BE ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING:

Graduation announcements may be purchased from the bookstore.
A commercial photographer will photograph each graduate as he or she receives a diploma. Please refer to the envelope from Grisham’s Photography, enclosed with your regalia, for complete instructions on how to obtain still photographs.

This is the graduate’s moment and it is a time of dignity and reserve; therefore, family and friends of the graduates are requested not to enter the gym floor during the graduation exercises.