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UNM Graduation Events

Order of the ceremony

Performance by the UNM Brass Choir

  • Conductor: Kellen Schuetze, Graduate Student
  • Pre-ceremony music to be selected from the following
    • A Centennial Fanfare - Zdechlik
    • Also Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss/Marlatt
    • On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss - Holsinger/Prentice
    • Liberty Bell March - Sousa/Allen
    • Adventus - Lovrien
    • Variants: A Mighty Fortress - Del Borgo
    • Pictures at an Exhibition - Moussorgsky/Stewart
  • Processional music
    • Academic Procession - C. Williams/Shaw
    • Pomp and Circumstance - Elgar
    • Olympic Fanfare - J. Williams

National Anthem

Presentation of Colors by the UNM Color Guard

  • Cadet Martinez
  • Cadet Horne
  • Cadet Wood
  • Cadet Cortez
  • Cadet Moss
  • Cadet McGraugh
  • Cadet Torres

Welcome

Board of Regents’ Greeting

  • Victor Reyes, Vice Chair, UNM Board of Regents

ASUNM Greeting

  • Andrew Norton, President, Associated Students at The University of New Mexico

Honorary Degrees

Recognition of Graduates with Distinction

Remarks from UNM Alumni Association

  • Aprilyn Chavez-Geissler, UNM Alumni Association

Conferring of Degrees in Course

Tassel Ceremony

Alma Mater

Recessional