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| Written by The Shorthorn editorial board | ||||
| Thursday, 22 October 2009 03:55 PM | ||||
Editorial RoundupThe Issue: Summer commencement ceremonies are discontinued.We Suggest: Now that this has been announced, do your best to make plans to accommodate your guests and family. Many colleges forego summer commencement, due to cost and lack of attendance. Making this decision is a smart move for the university. It is a great way to save money and the labor that it takes to assemble a commencement ceremony that accommodates much less than half that of spring and fall commencements. Across the country many practice this policy. The number of students awarded degrees for the 2007-2008 school year was 3,925 bachelor’s, 1,694 master’s and 153 doctoral degrees. This is far more than the statistics for all degrees in summer 2008 and summer 2009, which were 804 and 754, respectively. These statistics are only for the degrees awarded, not the number students who actually attended commencement. Not having a summer commencement at UT Arlington is not unique to Texas universities either. At least five universities in Texas operate without a summer commencement: UT-Dallas, UT-Tyler, UT-San Antonio, UT-Austin, and Tarleton State University in Central Texas. At UT-Austin, both all commencements are performed in the spring so all graduates for the year have one commencement. The university is working on ways to communicate the change in ceremonies to students. The cancellation had too short of a notice to plan changes for those, whose families are travelling from all over the world. Attendance, labor and costs are definitely good reasons to stop the summer commencement. But, more action to notify those who were planning on the commencement this summer should have been made sooner so they could have changed costly travel plans. We look forward to larger attendance at the fall and spring ceremonies, and starting a new practice that will benefit the university and the students since lowering costs goes back to the students in some way. - The Shorthorn editorial board consists of Marissa Hall, Mark Bauer, Jason Boyd, Dutin L. Dangli, and Cohe Bolin Views: 426 | E-mail
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