Williams College Employee Handbook

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Convocation and Commencement

It is customary to mark the beginning of the academic year by holding a formal Convocation during the early weeks of the fall semester. The Convocation may have a central theme, around which additional activities are organized. Commencement exercises closing the academic year are held in late May or early June. An academic procession, in which all members of the faculty are invited to march, precedes both Convocation and Commencement. The College purchases academic regalia for tenured members of the faculty and supplies it without charge to the rest of the faculty.

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