Ohio Wesleyan’s campus community will welcome the newest class of Bishops and family members to the Opening Convocation Ceremony on Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 4-5 p.m. outdoors on the Rock Quad.<\/p>\n
Campus leaders will share encouraging messages, and OWU President, Dr. Matt vandenBerg, will officially open the academic year. Following the Opening Convocation Ceremony, students will carry their class banner and follow the Bishop on their “First Lap.” The First Lap involves an informal march of the incoming class around the academic quad to the center of campus, including touching “the Rock” for good luck.<\/p>\n
The Opening Convocation Ceremony will be live-streamed here<\/a>. Family and friends who are on campus and prefer to watch the live-stream indoors may do so in the lobby of the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n Visit owu.edu\/convocation<\/a> for more details and FAQs. To inquire about specific accessibility needs in order to participate or attend the Opening Convocation Ceremony, please email the Accessibility Services Office at\u00a0aso@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ohio Wesleyan’s campus community will welcome the newest class of Bishops and family members to the Opening Convocation Ceremony on Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 4-5 p.m. outdoors on the Rock Quad. Campus leaders will share encouraging messages, and OWU President, Dr. Matt vandenBerg, will officially open the academic year. Following the Opening Convocation Ceremony, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"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":[2],"tags":[101,242,241],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-students","tag-accessibility","tag-first-lap","tag-opening-convocation"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong> Office of the Provost
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