Honorary Graduate Commencement Marshal Nominations
The Graduate College is pleased to continue the Honorary Graduate Commencement
Marshal award program. Up to two doctoral and two master’s graduates will be selected
through a nomination process to serve as honorary graduate marshals for the Fall 2015
Commencement Ceremony. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 award, be recognized
at commencement and in the program, be provided special gown adornments, and lead
the graduates in the processionals/recessionals and awarding of the diploma covers.
Honorees’ guests will be provided preferred ceremony seating.
Nominees are expected to have demonstrated scholarly achievement, as evidence by
academic performance and discipline-appropriate scholarly contributions. The brief
nomination narrative should focus on the nominees OSU contributions that capture the
essence of our land-grant mission. Nominees should have completed or be completing
their graduate degrees in summer 2015 or fall 2015, respectively, and may not have
already walked in the spring 2015 or an earlier commencement ceremony.
Each graduate program is limited to one submission and self-nominations are not
accepted. The following nomination materials should be emailed by the Graduate
Coordinator as a single Word or PDF document to grad.dean@okstate.edu by 5 pm on
Friday, October 2, 2015:
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Graduate Coordinator name and sponsoring graduate program name
Full name of the nominee, CWID, and degree name with option(s)
Nominee’s unofficial OSU transcript
Nominee’s CV/Resume
Brief (not to exceed 250 words) nomination narrative elaborating on the nominee’s
contributions to OSU’s land-grant mission and compelling reasoning for their
selection as a recipient of this honor.
Selections will be made by the dean of the Graduate College and/or her designees, and
winners will be notified in late fall 2015. The honorees are required to attend the Fall
2015 Commencement Ceremony on Friday, December 11, 2015.