Commencement
Graduation Eligibility
To participate in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Commencement Celebration on Sunday, June 15, 2008, your major must be one of the following: Biology; Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution; or Marine Biology, or you must be a minor in Conservation Biology. You are eligible to participate in the Commencement Celebration:
- If you graduated in Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 you have automatic eligibility.
- If you have completed 148 units by the end of Winter Quarter 2008 AND have declared candidacy for Spring 2008 (the deadline to declare without penalty is Friday, April 11, 2008) or for Summer 2008 (the deadline to declare is Friday, April 25, 2008). At this point, you may have to go in person to the Office of the Registrar (1113 Murphy Hall) to declare your candidacy if you are unable to do this through URSA.
To confirm your completed units to date, access URSA online. If you are in either situation (1) or (2), you will have automatic eligibility to order guest tickets through MyUCLA.
As verification of your eligibility, you will receive a message in the "My Notifications" section of your MyUCLA web page after May 2 that will indicate how your name will appear in the Commencement program. If you do not receive this message, contact LSEvents@support.ucla.edu or go to the College Commencement Office, 1312 Murphy Hall.
If you plan to complete your degree requirements in Fall Quarter 2008, you are not automatically eligible to participate in or receive guest tickets for the 2008 Commencement events, including departmental graduations. However, you will be automatically eligible to participate in the 2009 Commencement events in June of 2009.
Students with an official degree expected term of Fall 2008 and who have at least 148 units completed as of the end of Winter 2008 may submit a Special Inclusion Petition (SIP) to participate in the 2008 Commencement events if they will be unable to participate in the 2009 Commencement events. To submit an SIP, qualified students must follow the following procedures:
- Login to URSA in order to verify and/or declare that your Degree Expected Term is Fall 2008. Only once your candidacy is confirmed by the Registrar's Office will you be eligible to submit a Special Inclusion Petition.
- After April 7, 2008, login to MyUCLA and select "Commencement" from the MyUCLA Features menu (only eligible students will receive this menu option).
- Follow the SIP instructions as prompted and wait for the petition to be reviewed. The deadline to submit SIP forms is Friday, May 9, 2008.
Please note that the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Undergraduate Office does NOT review your SIP; the College reviews the SIP.
updated 4-3-2008