Fall Convocation
August 22, 2019
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
About this event
Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ is celebrating the start of another exciting academic year with its Fall Convocation for new freshmen and transfer students. Incoming freshmen and transfer students should arrive by 5 p.m. to receive the Fall Convocation coin as a memento of the occasion. Students will hear from Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯President Mark E. Keenum, Provost and Executive Vice President David Shaw, Student Association President Jake Manning and Vice President Emily Case, Black Student Association President Alysia Williams, and Holland Faculty Senate President Randy Follett. The Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯State Singers and Famous Maroon Band will perform the National Anthem and the universityβs alma mater, βMaroon and White.β A reception will follow in Humphrey Coliseumβs Mize Pavilion, and Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯and Grant Library historians John Marszalek, David Nolen and Louie Gallo will be in the concourse area signing copies of MSU's 2019 Maroon Edition book, "Hold On with a Bulldog Grip: A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant." In addition, there will be photograph opportunities with special guests who will be announced by President Keenum during the Convocation.Β Β