All undergraduate students must reserve tickets for their friends and families to attend.
Beginning March 24, 2025, graduates can only reserve tickets with their student login information at www.tabor.edu/tickets. Tickets will be available through April 21.
Graduates will receive four tickets and reservations must be claimed by a date to be determined.
If the deadline is not met, graduates will be limited to two tickets (and waitlist tickets, if available).
Extra tickets will be distributed before Commencement after ticket reservations have been closed.
A non-ticketed livestream will also be available in the Franz Family Heritage Lobby, which is inside the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts.
There are several ADA-accessible parking spaces in the lot just north of the facility. These spaces will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Other parking lots on campus also have ADA-accessible spaces. Golf cart shuttles will be available on the day of Commencement to aid those who need extra help from their parking spot. A downloadable map of Tabor College is also available.
Ceremony Photography
Tabor College will have professional photographers throughout the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts. This includes, but is not limited to, diplomas (on-stage & backstage portrait), and the processional and recessional. Those photographs will be available to families within a week of Commencement. All photographs will be made available via Flickr and are free of charge. Families may also take photos behind the stanchioned areas in the Richert Auditorium.
Browse photos from the 114th Commencement of Tabor College!
Learn more about each Tabor College graduating class! We’ll share Graduate Spotlights for the Class of 2025 in late April.
Senior Checklist
Have you filled out your Intent to Graduate application or purchased your regalia? Visit the Senior Checklist to make sure your list is complete ahead of Commencement!
Special Accommodations
Graduates need to inform the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts Box Office of any special accommodations for visiting family members. This allows proper arrangements to be made on time. Please email boxoffice@tabor.edu to specify these requests.
Degree Applications
An application for a degree must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office at least six weeks before the date that the degree is to be conferred.
When will I get my diploma?
Degrees will be conferred and diplomas will be issued to students upon completion of their degree requirements and after the Tabor faculty and Board of Directors approval in May or December. Students who have all degree requirements completed by Commencement will receive their diplomas within two weeks after the Commencement ceremony. A lost or misplaced diploma can be re-ordered by Requesting a Diploma from the Tabor registrar’s office and paying a $25 fee.
What will my diploma say?
The degrees conferred at Tabor College are Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Social Work. This is what will be recorded on your diploma. Majors are not written on the diploma, but it is on your transcript.
Significance of Undergraduate Processional
When students arrive on campus for their freshman year, they participate in a ceremony around the Centennial Plaza. Designed and dedicated in 2008, it represents the centrality of Christ to the Tabor College community. Just to the side of the cross, a kneeling servant is facing away from the cross representing the desire to be servants of Christ, reaching out to the world that is lost. Students are then taken from the Centennial Plaza and processed across the lawn towards the signature H.W. Lohrenz Administration Building, which is one of our original buildings (built in 1920). The students are then taken up the stairs between the “columns of wisdom” and through the front doors into the halls of learning to begin their years as scholars at Tabor. Four years later, these same students have completed their learning and are now ready to be sent back into the world. So, to lead into their graduation ceremony, the graduates depart the Lohrenz and the halls of learning and move down the stairs, returning to the Centennial Plaza. It is where they are symbolically released back into the world to go and be Christ-like servants to a hurting world and help make the world more like God intended it to be.
Commencement
Commencement exercises are held once a year in May, but degrees can be conferred at other times. Students who have completed all degree requirements are encouraged to participate in Commencement. In addition, students who have obtained a 2.0 GPA and who have no more than 12 hours of deficiencies may participate in Commencement provided they have an approved plan to complete all requirements and are enrolled at Tabor to complete those requirements during the subsequent summer or fall term.
