{"id":123775,"date":"2024-11-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=123775"},"modified":"2024-11-18T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T11:05:10","slug":"seniors-need-32-units-to-participate-in-spring-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/seniors-need-32-units-to-participate-in-spring-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Need 32 Units to Participate in Spring Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To participate in Spring Commencement, seniors need to have at least 32 units in progress or completed as of spring semester. 34 units and all other <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.owu.edu\/content.php?catoid=33&amp;navoid=844#requirements-for-all-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/catalog.owu.edu\/content.php?catoid%3D33%26navoid%3D844%23requirements-for-all-degrees&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731628507667000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xT-ujUFYvSC8nucbb8I_4\">degree and GPA requirements<\/a> are needed to receive your degree from OWU, but students with 32 units are permitted to participate in the Commencement Ceremony and finish the additional units required for graduation in the summer or fall.<\/p>\n<p>Students who have\u00a0fewer than 32 units are\u00a0not\u00a0permitted to participate in the Spring 2025 Commencement\u00a0and will need to wait until the following spring. There are no exceptions to this policy.\u00a0\u00a0If you intend to participate in the Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/degreeaudit.owu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/degreeaudit.owu.edu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731628507667000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1p7V_v35mL-7TrncoAtctB\">Degree Audit<\/a>\u00a0to confirm you have at least 32 units in progress or completed as of Spring 2025. This number will show as \u201cCredits Applied.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Consider adding additional units if needed. These will be reflected in Degree Audit overnight.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss with your advisor any steps you may need to take to reach overall graduation requirements of at least 34 units and all other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.owu.edu\/content.php?catoid=33&amp;navoid=844#requirements-for-all-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/catalog.owu.edu\/content.php?catoid%3D33%26navoid%3D844%23requirements-for-all-degrees&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731628507667000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xT-ujUFYvSC8nucbb8I_4\">degree and GPA requirements<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We wish you the best as you finish your degree requirements. If you have questions, please contact your academic advisor, the Director of Holistic Advising (<a href=\"mailto:academicadvising@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academicadvising@owu.edu<\/a>), or the Registrar (<a href=\"mailto:registrar@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registrar@owu.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Academic Advising<br \/>\nContact: Lauren Hensley at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:academicadvising@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academicadvising@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To participate in Spring Commencement, seniors need to have at least 32 units in progress or completed as of spring semester. 34 units and all other degree and GPA requirements are needed to receive your degree from OWU, but students with 32 units are permitted to participate in the Commencement Ceremony and finish the additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123853,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123775\/revisions\/123853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}