May 5-6: 2023 Spring Commencement Ceremonies
Friday, May 5, 2023
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
First ceremony
Mankato, Minn. – Approximately 1,750 Minnesota State University, Mankato students will participate in five spring commencement ceremonies on campus Friday and Saturday, May 5-6 in Taylor Center’s Bresnan Arena.
On Friday, commencement ceremonies will be held at 3 p.m. for the College of Business and at 6 p.m. for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
On Saturday, commencement ceremonies will be held at 9 a.m. for the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, at 12 p.m. for the College of Education and at 3 p.m. for the College of Allied Health and Nursing.
Candidates for graduate degrees will graduate with the college of their affiliation.
The ceremonies are not ticketed events, and there are no restrictions on the number of guests who may attend for each graduate. Live-streaming captioning services will be provided for each ceremony.
Jim Grabowska, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Minnesota State system, will greet the candidates at Friday’s ceremonies and at Saturday’s 3 p.m. ceremony. Tim Huebsch, also a member of the Minnesota State Board of Trustees, will greet the candidates at Saturday’s 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. ceremonies.
President Edward Inch will present diplomas to the new graduates. Brian Zins, a 2002 Minnesota State Mankato graduate and director of Alumni Relations, will welcome new graduates to the Alumni Association.
Student speakers for Friday’s ceremonies will be Kaitlyn Schroeder and Mariana Dervenji at 3 p.m. and Namidu De Silva and Jonathan Mor at 6 p.m.
Student speakers for Saturday’s ceremonies will be Nick Huynh, Lyric Lopez-Kohler and Colin Roskos at 9 a.m., Abigail and Noemi Vazquez-Cruz and Elijah Lewis at 12 p.m. and Yuepheng Thao at 3 p.m.
Douglas Snapp and Michael Olson, faculty members in Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Music, will arrange the music at the five ceremonies.
The national anthem will be performed at the ceremonies by a Chamber Choir Ensemble from the Department of Music. Stephanie Thorpe, a faculty member in the Department of Music, will conduct the Chamber Choir Ensemble.
Additional music will be performed at the ceremonies by Bryce Barrie, Kyle Johnson, Patrick Karl, Takuto Koseki, Devon Osman, Sophie Seegar and McKenna Slattery, with Amy Roisum-Foley, faculty member in the Department of Music, conducting.
Faculty member Michael Thursby will direct the Maverick Machine Athletic Band at the ceremonies.
More information about the Minnesota State Mankato spring commencement is at http://www.mnsu.edu/commencement.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,482 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 26 colleges and seven universities.
