More than 2,400 students are eligible to participate in Wichita State’s 127th spring commencement ceremony on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 in Charles Koch Arena. There will be four ceremonies to celebrate the graduates:
Friday, May 16
- All graduate degrees will be awarded at 7 p.m. Friday, May 16. The featured speaker will be Wichita State Graduate Student of the Year, Donna Tran.
Saturday, May 17
- 9 a.m. — Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine Arts, and the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College. The featured speaker will be Danielle Johnson, executive director of Wichita Habitat for Humanity.
- 1 p.m. — The College of Applied Studies and the College of Health Professions with featured speaker Matt All, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas.
- 5 p.m. — The W. Frank Barton School of Business and the College of Engineering with featured speaker Laura Bernstorf, director of special missions program management at Textron Aviation.